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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

Friday, May 18, 2018

Addendum to the Pinker Post

School shooting in Texas. Early reports not looking good. God bless all! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2018 More to the...

The Fake News is Coming from inside the White House! Again!

Fake News Media had me calling Immigrants, or Illegal Immigrants, “Animals.” Wrong! They were begrudgingly forced to withdraw their storie...

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Time to watch re-runs of "MAS*H"

Despite the disgusting, illegal and unwarranted Witch Hunt, we have had the most successful first 17 month Administration in U.S. history ...

The Counter Counter Counter Enlightenment

Stephen Pinker apparently imagines he is on a crusade to save the Enlightenment. To those who disagree with him, he has this (among oth...

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Bright Lights, Big City

I actually read the Ben Weiss column about the "intellectual dark web" linked in this article at Slate. William Saletan did, ...

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Thomas' Question*

Mostly just because I can; and I like L.W. III This is not the whole of Christian soteriology, nor necessarily even a part of it. But ...

Monday, May 14, 2018

Arhythmic grumbling

In a Peanuts strip of sainted memory (meaning I can't find it easily via Google, and I'm not gonna do the work....), Sally Brown ...

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Oh, dear, what can the matter be?

Rudy Giuliani says his now former law firm never reached out to him before issuing statement dissing him today “The law firm has a lot of ...

The Glenn Greenwald Seal of Approval

A WH official confirms WH aide Kelly Sadler mocked John McCain’s cancer diagnosis saying “he’s dying anyway” in response to his opposition...

Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Diplomacy is for loosers

As @realDonaldTrump said, US sanctions will target critical sectors of Iran’s economy. German companies doing business in Iran should win...

President Blue Collar

Molly Ivins used to say she loved having lunch with the Texas oil men at the Petroleum Club (I think her reference point was the one in...

Tuesday, May 08, 2018

And President John...

And Secretary Richard.... Today what we’re hoping to do is – there have been discussions between that day to now, and we’ve continued...

About going down into the dark

I was going to cast about for various news articles from which I could assemble a response to Trump's predictable stupidity (really,...

Morning Twit

Gina Haspel, my highly respected nominee to lead the CIA, is being praised for the fact that she has been, and alway will be, TOUGH ON TER...

Monday, May 07, 2018

We all go down into the dark

John McCain, as all the world knows, is dying of brain cancer. No matter what I think of John McCain's politics or his public actions, ...

"Yes, Virginia, there is a legal system"

The 13 Angry Democrats in charge of the Russian Witch Hunt are starting to find out that there is a Court System in place that actually pr...

"Yoo made me do it"

There is no one more qualified to be the first woman to lead the CIA than 30+ year CIA veteran Gina Haspel. Any Democrat who claims to sup...

Sunday, May 06, 2018

So, Emmett Flood is gonna fix this for Trump, right?

Right? Will he do it by replacing Giuliani? Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was reportedly huddled with his client, President D...

Why Nobody Wants Trump At Their Funeral

France expresses its firm disapproval of @realDonaldTrump 's remarks on the subject of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris, and ask...

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