Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers As Metaphor For The Excellent Nietzschean Soul

May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment

In reply to my review of Peter Bogdanovich’s film about Tom Petty Running Down a Dream , “Lizzie B” over at the Tom Petty message board points out an oversight in my review. She astutely observes: Something you didn’t touch on that really stood out to me in the film is Tom Petty’s shrewd sense [...]

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The Future of Nietzschean Ideas

May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment

From a reader (and old friend) in Pittsburgh: I see you have a blog. Sweet! If I can find the time, I will try to make vintage blog-style drive-by comments; complete with the requisite cynicism, pettiness, ad hominem smears, and (most necessary of all) appalling grammar befitting the beneficiary of a bona fide public school [...]

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Hilarity of the Day: Flight of the Conchords

May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment

This makes me laugh so hard:

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Why The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Is My Favorite Film

May 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Michel Gondry’s masterpiece The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, following Charlie Kaufman’s masterpiece script, is one of the most top to bottom brilliant achievements in film I have ever seen. Taken as a science fiction film, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ranks as a model for the genre. The film takes a [...]

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Daily Hilarity: An Instant Classic Parody of O’Reilly by Colbert

May 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

And be sure not to miss all these reporters gone wild, they’re hilarious (if you find people losing their temper over petty things hilarious) And at least O’Reilly has a sense of humor about it http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/oreilly-tries-to-laugh-of_n_101832.html

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The Next Six Months Will Induce Much Wincing

May 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Andrew Sullivan posts an e-mail from one of his readers: I live in SD and I am a candidate for the State House. I was out walking my district last month and spoke to a woman about the primary. She has a statue of the Virgin Mary in her front yard and was wearing several [...]

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The Six Degrees Of Jeremiah Wright

May 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Well, now it turns out that anyone that Barack Obama endorses is magically endorsed by Jeremiah Wright. By November’s time it is the Republican party’s wish that not only Barack Obama is equated with any one he’s ever been associated with in any capacity but that pretty much every Democrat who aligns him or herself [...]

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What Should Matter More To Superdelegates? The Popular Vote or the Pledged Delegates?

May 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

As the Democratic primary season is winding down, Barack Obama has an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates.  Because of the nature of this lead the race is being declared over and done with in his favor.  It makes a lot of sense to think that if the superdelegates were to overturn a clear mandate for [...]

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Daily Hilarity: South Park Style Mac vs. PC Ad

May 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment

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Rough Sketches of Nietzsche’s Politics and Philosophy of Religion

May 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment

What follows are a couple of replies to questions sent to me by a student this semester about Nietzsche’s views on politics and religion. While not definitive or thoroughly sourced discussions of Nietzsche’s thoughts on politics and religion, I think the sketches of Nietzsche’s positions as I formulated them in these replies have some promise. [...]

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