MAIL: First, the election-themed results of an old, old, and sadly neglected contest, in which I asked readers to send in their nominations for 2004 presidential candidates. The only taker? Tenebrae. Here are his picks. Note that this contest ran a LONG time ago, in a political galaxy far, far away…: BEST CHANCE: For dry, blurry eyes, vote for Joe Lieberman … Wow. As Limbaugh says (paraphrasing?), “He’s boring, he’s an adult, and he’s not afraid of the word God.”... Read more

TRUER WORDS NE’ER SPOKEN: “…’consensus process,’ which is apparently the en vogue method of concealing social power relations in certain left leaning organizations…” (Julian Sanchez, whose fun election-night-on-Capitol-Hill account can be found here. For more on the hierarchies formed by “non-hierarchical” groups, try here.) Read more

SEND ANDRE NORTON FLOWERS. In case I have any readers who don’t read InstaPundit. Read more

GOOD CARTOON ON “PRE-EMPTION.” Read more

TEXTUALISM IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD. Passing thought about jurisprudence (you know how you get those passing thoughts about jurisprudence)–as a summary of textualism (legal philosophy of A. Scalia and co.), how about “RTFM“? Computerish types know that stands for “Read The F$#@!ing Manual,” and is an exasperated cry from customer-support people who find themselves fielding questions from people (like me) who don’t know which end of the computer is up. We all know that R-ing TFM won’t answer all our... Read more

LOUIS FARRAKHAN AFRICAN NAME GENERATOR. Via The Rat. Read more

Eros the Alien: “Your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb–split the atom! Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you bring the total destruction of the entire univerese, served by our sun. The only explosion left is the solaronite.” Fighter pilot: “So what if we do develop this solaronite bomb–we’d be even a stronger nation than now!” Eros the Alien: “Stronger? You see! You see! Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!” Fighter pilot: “That’s all I’m... Read more

CAMASSIA on that article on Buddhism I linked to a few days ago. Interesting stuff about ways in which Buddhism is and is not congenial to Western modernity. Edited to add that the next post, on adulthood, the “teenager,” and good ways to skip college, is also worth reading. Read more

REALIZED I DON’T ACTUALLY AGREE WITH what I’d (briefly) posted here–so hey, have a tiger. Read more

MORE ON THE FINE LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE. Telford Work on hating your family and committing adultery in your heart (woo-hoo!). First my confusion, then some excellent statements rejecting “interior emotion/exterior action” dualism. I’m not entirely sure I understand his response specifically about Christ’s statement about hating one’s family. I’m not sure I “get” the analogy he’s drawing in which the apostles’ and Mary’s treating “their relationships with Jesus as means of social leverage over him,” which Telford analogizes... Read more