“If you were just a dame, it’d be different, Susan, but you’re special.” –Van Heflin to Evelyn Keyes, “The Prowler” Read more
“If you were just a dame, it’d be different, Susan, but you’re special.” –Van Heflin to Evelyn Keyes, “The Prowler” Read more
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy blogger Who could watch you under the table David Hume could out consume Schopenhauer and Hegel And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel… The Lord Mage of Good lists his Top 10 movies. The Rat compares me to a Harper’s editorialist. Ouch! A worthwhile post if you’re following the “Sir Mick” controversy. This Reason take is also good.... Read more
DEAD PHILOSOPHERS: A Volokh throws down the gauntlet: We don’t spend too much time reading ancient, medieval, or even pre-20th-century economists, mathematicians, political scientists, or natural scientists. Why then do we read Plato, Anselm, and the like? Well. First of all, I submit that philosophy reaches its nifty tendrils into all kinds of disciplines (biologists, of course, are practicioners of natural philosophy), and some of those disciplines are more likely to attain more-or-less-final answers than others. Does rotting meat spontaneously... Read more
OY VET ER KUMEN ZU GEYN, VELN ALE YIDN IN ERETZ YISROEL AYNSHTEYN: I promised a post on U.S. support for Israel, and here it is. BACKGROUND: Let’s clear one major obstacle out of the way. My father is Jewish. My sister too. I counterprotested the idiotic Jew-hate-not-free-trade! march in April. (Read about it here and here.) Although I was not raised with any particular affection for the state of Israel, and I’m neither ethnically nor religiously Jewish, I still... Read more
GETTING IN TOUCH WITH MY FEMININE SIDE: Recently I mentioned two recipes that require virtually no clean-up. A reader asked me what they were. Mmm mmm good. As with all recipes, variations are encouraged and quantities are approximate. Sandwich (this is a variant of a recipe I got from 365 Days Vegetarian–in general, a good cookbook–and I think it had some silly name like “San Francisco Sandwich,” but since it’s the only kind of sandwich I ever make, I feel... Read more
“You know how it is early in the morning on the water, and then you come ashore, and in no time at all you’re up to your ears in trouble, and you don’t know how it began.” –John Garfield, “Breaking Point” Read more
THE RAT INFORMS ME that Agatha Christie’s title was Dame Commander of the British Empire. Now that is cool. Read more
TIM DRAKE’S ARTICLE on Catholic bloggers is online, here. Read more
BECAUSE THE KNIGHT: Why would people want Mick Jagger to be knighted? What would knighting the guy accomplish? Here’s my take: 1) I’m not sure why artists get knighted in the first place, rather than reserving the honor for people who, you know, perform heroic acts or similar. But that said, 2) There’s a big difference between knighting (or whatever the equivalent is for women–you can see that I don’t follow this sort of thing) Agatha Christie, and knighting, say,... Read more
FLORIDA SAYS 120 CHILDREN IN STATE CARE ARE MISSING. Read more