March 2008
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Airgram
Two nice things about the air: It wraps itself around my love And brings her voice to me.1 For my love: something to remember on nights when loneliness surrounds you as profoundly as midnight’s darkness. Frank Herbert : The Poetry of Frank Herbert – Songs of Muad’Dib : Airgram↩
The Procrastinator’s Redemption
We are seldom so disposed to complete an task we have delayed as when we are given a new task we want to put off.
Same Old World
3. Experiment with dope (as in dopamine). Before moving on, it helps to add some psychoactive chemicals. Some people achieve social confidence only when they use alcohol or drugs. I can never remember to buy these things, but I always have a few mood-altering substances on hand — or rather, in my head — and [...]
The Best Adam Smith Quote I Have Ever Read
I found on Thomas Sowell’s personal website: …mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent…
It’s a Matter of Fact
It’s a matter of fact, studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades.1 Considering how unsurprising these words were, do others share my consternation that so many of my countrymen wanted to deny Ahmadinejad entry into our nation? From what I’ve seen of existing [...]
Redeeming Democracy: The Dehumanization Approach
This week, I finally read Bryan Caplan’s “The Myth of the Rational Voter,” which I had been looking forward to reading for some time now. I loved the book, as could probably have been expected by most informed readers given my own discontent with democracy as an institution and Caplan’s, as well as my recent [...]
Black Theology and the Incitement of Race Hatred
Cone’s groundbreaking 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power announced: “The time has come for white America to be silent and listen to black people…. All white men are responsible for white oppression…. Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’ … Any advice from whites to blacks [...]
The Cuanto/Tanto Construction
I have a question for any bilingual readers: what is the best way to express in English the “cuanto/tanto” construction that the Romance languages have?
The Stupidest Voice Is Always Loudest
The size of your audience increases as the accuracy of your views decreases.
Credunt Quia Absurdum Est
It struck me this morning, while I was reviewing one of Augustine’s book, that God, as presented in Christian theology, is rather like the set of all sets that made naïve set theory impossible to defend and that therefore led Russell to pursue his great, and ultimately futile, attempt to construct a consistent system of [...]