Monday, July 27, 2009

Hiatus

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Sorry for the blogging vacation; without going into maudlin detail, there have been a few health issues in the extended family of late, whic...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Kant, the last Scholastic?

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Justo Gonzalez on Albertus Magnus: Philosophy operates on the basis of autonomous principles, which can be known apart from revelation, and ...

Cadavers? Naked women? Electric shocks?

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"No bad ideas when you're brainstorming," say the Imagination Movers , but perhaps they weren't thinking of the CIA. Sunda...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Jack Vance in the New York Times

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And it's not his obituary, thank god. The NYT Mag actually has a writeup on Vance , born in 1916 and the last great writer of his great...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

AY-yi-YI-yi-YI, as Ricky would say

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Political Wire : Then you would have some 'splaining to do. -- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), doing his best Ricky Ricardo impression at Judge ...

The quest for certainty

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Once, after McNamara had rattled off the odds for the success of various military operations -- 65 percent for this one, 30 for that -- [Geo...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Sotomayor seems to be an "Annie Hall" fan

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Via Yglesias , this is sweet : Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) , seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, cited her 2...

Free-market health care advice: Just die!

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Matt Yglesias mocks The Corner (not his biggest challenge of the day, surely): ... Obama’s proposed reforms--unfortunately--wouldn’t actuall...

From the annals of ill-considered public statements

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Quincy Adams relates : Reportedly, Turkish PM Erdogan has labelled as genocide the recent events in Xinjiang, and the Chinese he demanded he...

Too much news, too little time

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The day job has been rather insistent lately, and there's too much news for a busy person to assimilate. Last week's Friday afternoo...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Canon-bashing bashed

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Via Bookslut , which lavishly praises this literature site The Second Pass, we find their list of books that ought to be ditched from The Ca...
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Obama's surveillance program

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His eyes are everywhere! (Gotta say, I'm glad not to be surrounded by cameras catching every time that my eyes are lured astray by a pas...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Terrorism is a crime -- treat it like one.

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Mark Kleiman thinks that Glenn Greenwald has his panties in a wad over the "preventive detention" of Taliban/Qaeda members: Wheth...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

"It's very powerful, this Allspark."

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Unfortunately for me, I can attest that this Transformers 2 "FAQ"/review is completely accurate in every detail. (Hey, it was th...

Maybe he should assign a final paper instead

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TPM notes that Alberto Gonzales has a job lined up at Texas Tech -- in poli sci, not law, ha ha -- and passes along this reader comment: Pl...