LEON KASS COMMENTED, “NOW THAT’S JUST WRONG, AND YOU KNOW IT.” Read more

“The town is infested with man-eating cockroaches. Repeat: man-eating cockroaches!” –George Peppard to Jan-Michael Vincent, “Damnation Alley” Read more

INTERESTING CONTRAST between this nifty Kathy Shaidle article on Jewish comic-book superheroes and this Telford Work piece on the anti-heroic “Veggie Tales.” Read more

DISPUTATIONS is doing an awesome monthlong series on the rosary. Go! Read! Pray! Read more

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Shlemiel, shlimazel, Hasenpfeffer Incorporated. We’re gonna do it! Give us any chance, we’ll take it. Give us any rule, we’ll break it. We’re gonna watch our blogs come true…. The Agitator: Good wrapup of the New Jersey follies; and an inspiring story. And yes, this will keep me busy for a long, long time. (How can people prefer egg to butter???) Regions of Mind: Pat Buchanan, American Platypus. Uggabugga: Saudi graphic. Via... Read more

NORM!!!! Via Shamed. Read more

POSTSCRIPT. So last night I was thinking about the last post from yesterday. Two things about it in particular. The first was that I forgot to mention one other good result of my early unhappiness, which is the sense of lack and necessity that drove me to philosophy. Unhappiness can make people really self-protective and risk-averse, thus averse to rigorous philosophical seeking. And I think I did that too, especially when I was in high school and on my big... Read more

MARCHING TO THE BEAT OF A DEAD HORSE. Via The Rat. Read more

“The level of the mysterious radiation continues to increase steadily. So long as this situation remains, government spokesmen warn that dead bodies will continue to be transformed into flesh-eating ghouls.” –TV newsman, “Night of the Living Dead” Read more

AND I WAS YOUNG: Recently I had a bad weekend. A really, really lousy, stressed-out, low, hateful weekend. And at some point I realized something: You know, I used to feel like this all the time! Thinking over it, actually, I used to feel worse than that, all the time. Like between the ages of, say, five or six, and 20. After 20 or so, I’ve had frequent bad patches, grim little self-hate-fiestas, but they’ve been interludes between longer calm,... Read more