More Philosopherizaicalization

Over at New Sophist’s Almanac, the philosophy tandem blog I run with my friend Marvin, activity has begun again after some quiet summer time.
Marvin posted reflections about his experiences with karate, reflections fueled in part by reading Edward Said’s Orientalism. I responded to his wonderful post with some of my own thoughts as a [...]

Grab Bag

Okay, well, straight from the title of this post:
Good News: I have started a new novel, and it’s not my SF-jail novel (which I think I’ll work on, off-and-on, for a while, but which isn’t my main focus now): it’s a kind of a futuristic espionage thing, but with several interesting (I think) twists. So [...]

Survival Quiz

I didn’t do so well on this quiz, but then I take it that it’s more of an educational thing than a real “test your knowledge” quiz.
Pretty cool, though, and now I know a lot more about survival in the bush than I used to.

Legal Rave Busted

Wow, so now it’s possible for the National Guard to storm in and shut down a totally legal party? (I’m assuming the people posting testimonials aren’t all bleeding liars. I might be wrong.) I’ve never been more than a very peripheral participant in the world of raves—a high school friend hosted some, and DJed, and [...]

My Pride for Lime

Wow, I wrote this a long time ago, and I’m not sure why I didn’t post it at the time. This goes all the way back to March, when Lime was still working intensively in the hospital. But it’s still true now, and perhaps, as she’s studying for her biog, fat, important exams in the [...]

Thoughts on Heresy

I rather enjoyed this essay on freethinking and heresy, from Paul Graham’s online collection of essays. Though it doesn’t always seem like it, there is a line between things I think and things I say, sort of. As I get older, at the very least, I’m learning to choose my battles; I may not be [...]

As the Semester Begins

Well, another season, another semester. I got my schedule, and not to jinx myself, it looks pretty good as it stands… provided it doesn’t change somehow, suddenly, surprisingly.
But I do have a number of other anxieties about the semester. And being the blogger that I am, I am going to go right ahead and [...]

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