Adventus

"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

Friday, May 17, 2013

Please Stand By

I did this once before and it wasn't wholly successful, but I've added "word verification" to cut down on the spam c...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

In which ideas get their due regard

So now comes news the DOJ has subpenaed records of phone calls made by AP employees from ATT (or the phone company; whoever, these days, i...

Monday, May 13, 2013

"The chance won't come again...."

Which comes first: the idea, or the person? How do I describe this without giving away personal information about people who haven't...

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mother's Day 2013

So I came across this about today (although it's 3 years old): I hate the way the holiday makes all non-mothers, and the daughters...

Friday, May 10, 2013

Hammer time!

In which I take a lovely, simple melody (a/k/a a perfectly reasonable observation ), and drive it right into the ground (musical accompan...

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers..."

Ladies and gentlemen, the anarchist Cody Wilson: In a letter to the student, Cody Wilson, a [U.S. State D]epartment official wrote that...

Thursday, May 09, 2013

I had just come back from the court house for a docket call; a procedure in the county where lawyers announced their readiness to proceed ...

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

I'm terribly late!

Thanks to TC I get a look at this old review of one of Carl Sagan's books I ignored back when it came out; and I get to enjoy Sagan...

Meanwhile, back home....

A 7 year old Houston, Texas boy was shot by his 5 year old brother with a .22 rifle after Mom left the two of them alone in the bathtub f...

Anarchy in the Hew Hess Hay

To hear the politicians tell it , this is the greatest existential threat to our existence since 9/11. "This" being the ...

Saturday, May 04, 2013

Somethin's happenin' here....

Remington 750 semiautomatic hunting rifle. Remington's marketing material promises "super-fast cycling.... Rapid follow-ups are ...

Thursday, May 02, 2013

"Please to be shutting the pie-hole now"

Well, you knew somebody had to say it : “Why single out firearms? Why not talk about all the other things that endanger children, too?...

"Life is Messy"

That phrase was a favorite of my Pastoral Care professor in seminary. It was almost universally applicable to all problems raised in pasto...

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

My Brother's Keeper

I really did not know this until I heard it on BBC World Service today: On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, ana...

FSM, my a**

TC inadvertently directs me here , where I find some interesting assumptions being tossed about as "data": A British journal...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

I think. I think I am. Therefore I am. I think.

We begin with Eddington : I find a difficulty in understanding books on philosophy because they talk a great deal about "existence...

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