Obama trying to keep Stephen Colbert off the South Carolina ballot?

Good thing he isn’t alive today:

[Canadian political economist and economic historian] Innis expressed these concerns in his 1947 presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada, titled “Minerva’s Owl,” although his arguments were little understood at the time. He contended that western Europe and North America were in a state of profound crisis. This crisis was rendered more severe because the dominant media of communication fostered an obsessive preoccupation with the present, with the consequence that politicians and scholars were neither able to understand their circumstances nor able to devise an appropriate remedy for their problems.

It’s funny how people always seem to feel that there’s a serious crises going on in whatever field of study or profession they’re in…