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

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Is there a child in our basement?

Question: is West Virginia the child in the basement of our Omelas? Meanwhile, in West Virginia, there are 300,000 people without use...

Saturday, January 18, 2014

It is a privilege to....

Eric Posner says journalists don't deserve a legal privilege to publish classified or otherwise secret information, and I think he...

Friday, January 17, 2014

Tell me again why Greenwald isn't part of this debate....

Glenn Greenwald tweeted, in response to Obama's NSA speech : "Store all citizens' communications records" is a radi...

The Circus is back in town

IX. We had accepted uncritically the belief that technology is only good; that it cannot serve evil as well as good; that it cannot se...

O brave new world....!

I hear it helps to keep the physical Scarlett Johansson in mind.... I haven't seen "Her," but I'd like to. Listening...

Is that even legal?

Still wondering why we can't just all get along.. . Houston Mayor Annise Parker got married in California to Kathy Hubbard yesterda...

We were talking (and talking, and talking, and talking....)

I realize I've been talking about this since I started this blog; when will I ever tire? But The Thought Criminal puts me on to this a...

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

It's not like we were using it anyway.....

Well, okay: While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a s...

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

"We're from the government." We're here to help you."

Okay.... "We're taking our plunder, that's taken from us as individuals, [giving] it to the government, and the government...

"Reversing an effort to restore Christianity"

"Loosen up your suspenders, hunker down on on the ground...." Per Thought Criminal, who provides a video of Noam Chomsky ta...

When will we ever learn?

The natural gas pumped into your home has an aroma because of New London, Texas in 1937. We learned the explosive power of fertilizer c...

Monday, January 13, 2014

And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take --R.E.M. So, thi...

Workin' on a chain gang....

I'm sorry, I don't know which of her three guests said it, but on Diane Rehm's show this morning, discussing unemployment in...

Me and Will Ferrell: Together again

And this is why: In reality, Justice Sotomayor only stayed the court of appeals’ denial of Little Sisters’ request for an injunction; ...

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Noted in passing

Hail "Baphomet the Sabbatic Goat, an occult symbol since the 19th century, adopted by Crowleyans and then LaVeyan Satanists in...

Friday, January 10, 2014

The treachery of agency and agendas

Take it from my cold, dead fingers I heard about this yesterday, and it raises the question again: when is "dead"? The ...

I prefer to call it "Bridgezilla"

Rachel Maddow pointed out last night that Chris Christie has been locked in a fight with the New Jersey Senate over judicial appointments...

Jon Stewart explains it all for you

"Moral Hazard" is not an economic concept created in the 18th century (when "economics" first became a subject of stud...

The treachery of the pursuit of happyness

But is it art? "The number one question facing anyone who wants to help improve the quality of public discourse is: how the hell d...

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