Category: navel gazing

What do I do now?

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So. Since Your Humble Blogger started reading philosophy, people occasionally look at me like I’m mad. OK, that started earlier. But now it’s at least partially because of the philosophy. Why the heck would anyone read Spinoza, or Shklar, or…

Ooh! It just burns me up!

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Your Humble Blogger has been laying off the day-to-day politics of late, as it only makes him mad. Besides, there are plenty of blogs you can go to for your daily dose of Bush-bashing; I have nothing to offer on…

Conservative Tenet # 17

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Your Humble Blogger has reached the longest of the Conservative Tenets: 17. The primacy of the community—a wondrous, divinely ordained union of land, laws, customs, institutions, traditions, ideals, things, and people dead, living, and unborn—over the whims and rights of…

Quick Quiz

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Your Humble Blogger came across the following lines in a work of speculative fiction written for juveniles: [T]he room was of dazzling brilliance and beauty, for it was lined throughout with an exquisite metal that resembled translucent frosted silver. ……

Take a break; I am.

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By the way, Your Humble Blogger will be away for the next week, incommunicado, netless, and imbloggable. I hope to return on or about the 17th of August. Meanwhile, discuss amongst yourselves. Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….

Citizenship

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David, or should I say david, has provoked me on the word citizenship. Or I provoked him. Or Chris did. Anyway, I want to separate it out for a new topic, but all I have are questions: What does it…

DARPA

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Your Humble Blogger hasn’t blogged up the DARPA futures market business yet, which is just as well, because it turns out that Steve Kelman wrote a column in the Washington Post last Thursday saying pretty much exactly what I think….

Affirmative Action

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Your Humble Blogger has recently had yet another frustrating conversation about affirmative action. So I’ll post what I have to say here, and you can tell me why it isn’t persuasive… My father went to Queens College and Columbia Law…