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Monthly Archives: June 2013
What Goes Around Comes Around
Everything’s interconnected. The following is from G. Legman’s Rationale of the Dirty Joke Vol 2 (1973) p. 371: In a nice example of psychological displacement, Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have hit his son at the dinner table, whereupon his son in turn … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, ecology, interconnectedness, lee smolin, philosophy, physics, self
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Does God Love Uganda?
American evangelicals certainly think so, and a new documentary, God Loves Uganda, tells the story of their interaction with the country, and how that interaction is impacting cultural politics there (most especially in relation to a new death penalty law … Continue reading
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Tagged evangelicals, gay rights, God, homosexuality, the Bible, uganda, women's rights
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Bill Nye on the Age of the Earth
Speaking at Iowa State University recently, Bill Nye was asked about the theory of evolution vs. the theory of special creation. Here’s how The New York Times this week reported his response (and the response he received from the audience): During … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Bill Nye, creationism, critical thinking, Darwin, evolution, Genesis, science
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“You Know Him Not, Sir”: Shakespeare And Limitations On Self-Shaping
How much can you change your life and those of others, really? That’s a question I’ve been gnawing on a bit after seeing this past weekend an outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare, famously, was obsessed … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, existentialism, life, literature, philosophy, Sartre, schopenhauer, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
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James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) Died Today
Apparently of a heart attack while in Italy. He was 51. Here’s a bit from The New York Times’ obituary: James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. was born in Westwood, N.J., on Sept. 18, 1961. His father was an Italian immigrant who … Continue reading
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Tagged carpe diem, death, James Gandolfini, life, obituary, the sopranos
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Rape in the Military
__________ The recent appalling spectacle of male obtuseness and excuse-making concerning rape in the military prompted this from Frank Bruni in the NYT yesterday: I can’t get past that widely noted image from a week ago, of the Senate hearing into the … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, hillary clinton, rape, Republicans, sexism, sexual assault, women's rights
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Guitarist in Blue
__________ Your country is vast, But no thing pure. Nothing is. I kiss You, playing both Parts. Off time, A little. Fingers underbug The strings attached. The hole is out front. Wood is at the back. I’m not here, here. … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, depression, guitars, life, love, poem, poetry, sublimation
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What’s Coming (A Prediction)
A century from now, were you and I to see it, I think we would exclaim, like Miranda in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, “O brave new world that has such men in it!” And I worry that those men will not be religious … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Darwin, eugenics, evolution, humanism, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, science fiction
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Feminism is not “Anti-Science”
Some amusing and idiotic hand-wringing from an all-male panel over the fact that 4 in ten households in the United States now have a woman as the primary breadwinner. You would never know, based on this conversation, that nothing is … Continue reading
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Tagged America, business, capitalism, family, feminism, hillary clinton, resentment, sexism, women's rights
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Lee Smolin’s Time Reborn: Physics, Evolution, Atheism, and Buddhism
Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin’s new book, Time Reborn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), is mind-blowing–I assume it will still be talked about fifty years from now–and I’ll do my best in this post, having read the book through with great pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Buddhism, Darwin, evolution, God, Leibniz, philosophy, physics, science
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Citi Bike. What Is It?
This YouTube on NYC’s new Citi Bike bike-share transportation option is helpful:
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