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"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Monday, September 26, 2011

Du musst gehen!

I don't have a problem with this just on constitutional grounds. I have a problem with it on theological grounds: Operation Restor...

Heat v. Light

This actually almost makes sense, if you think about this first: Indeed, to be against the death penalty is to be against all such executio...

Thursday, September 22, 2011

"Doubt" is not a thing

But it should be: In 2007 the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, the body which has the final say in the state on whether executions shou...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

O brave new world

That has such creatures in it! This successful exercise in autonomous robotics could presage the future of the American way of war: a day wh...

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Death Works, Inc.

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that death -- for lack of a better word -- is good. Death is right. Death works. Death clarifies, cuts t...

Friday, September 16, 2011

Do you know what it means to miss....?

So whaddya do when the Web gets boring?

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Regarding the Deaths of Others

I'm going to give up reading the news. It's too depressing. Thoreau was right, too much of it involves situations in which I am not...

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

What the meaning of "is" is

Politifact boldly concludes that Jim Hightower told a whopper: Upshot: Hightower’s statement, suggesting Republican legislators slashed the ...

Monday, September 12, 2011

Hi! I'm not home right now, but if you want to leave a message....

Following the 9/11 ceremonies yesterday, and the breathless weeks of analysis that preceded it, with the relentless focus on how "we...

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Commemorating, not Remembering

A guest on NPR's "Science Friday" said the words I realized I'd been waiting to hear for weeks now. The topic was the ...

Friday, September 09, 2011

Burn, baby, burn!

Huffington Post: In Texas, firefighters aren't just battling the wild fires raging around Austin and Houston. The state's first resp...

The Law Is A Ass

Thers directs me to this. I'll save you the trouble. The shorter version is: "Suffer, you bastards, suffer!" "Bastards...

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Blood makes the grass grow!

"It should be noted at the outset that the dissent does not discuss a single case -- not one -- in which it is clear that a person was ...

Totally Irrelevant Minor Media Point

Just wondering if this will enter the media mainstream, or be lost as the narrative closes over it as skin would a wound, leaving not even a...

Those Who Have Ears....

I like E.J. Dionne, and I don't disagree with his recent column at all. But the advice William Goldman put in Deep Throat's mouth...

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Texas, Our Burning Texas

These maps at The Atlantic about the Texas wildfires are helpful; I guess. Yes, for example, if the fires were confined to one place, they...

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