Ron Paul Sums Up The Case For Social Libertarianism Succinctly and Hilariously
May 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A Great Commencement Speech
May 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
C-Span has been wonderful tonight. They broadcast the Libertarian Party’s Convention and now they’re showing interesting commencement speeches from around the country. They just finished showing Margaret Edson’s and I think it’s simply a must for teachers and students alike. It meant a whole lot to me. One of the two best commencement speeches I’ve [...]
The Glorious Sound of the Yankee Stadium Crowd Erupting In Applause….
May 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
when the Mets score over and over again….There are few more satisfying sounds in life than that! Tonight was a good night. The Mets seem to always get crushed on the Yankee Stadium Sunday night game every year, so I was not expecting such a happy game. It just stinks that my man Carlos Delgado [...]
Lake of Fire
May 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Whenever I cover the topic of abortion in my ethics classes, I go to great pains to stress to my students the value of a dispassionate inquiry on the subject. I discourage use of values charged, question begging language of “pro-choice” and “pro-life” and encourage more descriptive language of “pro-abortion rights” or “anti-abortion rights” as [...]
Hilarity of the Day: Bruce Campbell
May 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Sex: The Horror and The Horrible
May 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Teeth Sometimes people disagree about what makes for a horror film. As far as I’m concerned, the definitive feature of the genre is that it deals with frightening transgressions of nature and of morality. Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth is horror that situates itself purely in terms of this defining characteristic. The horror is not in the [...]
This Song Mesmerizes Me
May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hilarity of the Day: Flight of the Conchords
May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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