buy Clomiphene at walgreens … from All’s Well That Ends Well. He always astonishes me. On superficial knowledge: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors, ensconscing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an […]
Category Archives: Right Thinking
A Little Shakespeare…
09-Sep-09Edward Said’s Last Tin of Tobacco.
04-Aug-09Some oddities from the Arab-American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. They had a case of relics from the life of Edward Said, the famous scholar whose fame has perhaps not done much good (for my essay on Orientalism see here). Why in the world we should be interested in his last tin of tobacco I […]
David Foster Wallace and Attention.
25-May-09A fine speech by David Foster Wallace, a writer who committed suicide last fall. His style does not appeal all that much, and the first half of this speech wanders a bit without saying much, but it has a real truth which is worth pondering. http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words
The two faces of government.
17-Mar-09A quotation from Matt Walsh which appeared on this blog: This whole national debate [on gay marriage] is overwrought. If the state sanctions marriages (check) and confers benefits to the parties involved (check check) then anyone should be able to marry anyone. Whatever church or cult you belong to doesn’t have to recognize it. This […]
Science and Religion.
27-Feb-09A very fine piece discriminating between the two: levelheaded and all true. The best written work I’ve seen from the sage Michael Holleran. http://www.truthbook.com/news/labels/Michael%20Holleran.cfm
If by whiskey…
26-Feb-09Students of rhetoric should take a look at the 710 News’ post on the rhetorical technique of taking a term and defining it in two ways, one way being desirable and the other not. Does this have a name? Did the ancients do it? If it is modern, surely someone has explored modern rhetoric the […]
The Evolution Scandal.
15-Feb-09I will confess that I have limited patience for the “evolution controversy,” so I will move quickly. The argumentation on both sides would shame your average high-school debate team. In brief: science does not deal in “truths;” it deals in data and theory. There is no third category in science. Evolution is most emphatically a theory […]
But / And
14-Nov-08The individual personality reveals itself in the tiniest of things. One of the most interesting is the word “but.” Like all the adversatives (however, although, nonetheless, etc.) it implies some kind of opposition. It is most interesting to see where people think there is an opposition, and wherever they use the word “but” you may […]
Into the Cave.
14-Sep-09buy Gabapentin 300 mg uk A friend alerted me to the following Sullivan post, which I highly recommend reading in full: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/not-racism-projection.html#more One of the lessons of the spiritual life which can be put in brief form, is this: If you think of evil as something that someone else is or does, you don’t understand it and you don’t understand […]