So I’m reading Spinoza, or at least the first fifteen pages of the Theologico-Political Treatise, and I’ve already come upon a question. What is prophecy? I don’t mean the everyday, casual sense of the word, where Omni has an article…
There has been a lot of loose talk lately (which I won’t link to, so you can’t find out how well-written and persuasive it is, or on the other hand whether it exists at all) about how the anti-war faction…
This morning’s New York Times had an article about She Stoops to Comedy, a new play by David Greenspan. The conceit, essentially, is that a lesbian couple is having difficulties, as Alexandra is terribly possessive; when her girlfriend gets cast…
Without saying anything positive about Amir Taheri’s conclusions, or agreeing with anything Amir Taheri has to say about … well, pretty much anything, I would like to direct my Gentle Readers’ attention to this article in the National Post, which…
First: so far, so good. Most of my fears about the war in Iraq have not only not come true, but no longer have a chance of coming true. The US military (and the coalition forces) were very very good…
I just today came across the Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia which uses the amazing breadth of the Internet to create a collaborative work of impressive size. It’s one of the things that could not have existed before the Internet (OK,…
Are y’all reading Tomato Nation? Why the heck not? Do you want to piss her off? For crying out loud, people….
The provocative Bill Berkowitz writes about a truly scary thing; the possibility of the US government giving preferential treatment to Christian proselytizers in post-war Iraq. Why is this scary? Well, remember that the real nightmare scenario in all this is…
Hey, Gentle Readers, what time is it? It’s Rossiter Time! 6. The fallibility and potential tyranny of majority rule. OK, I’ll begin the note by saying that majority rule is certainly fallible (what isn’t?) and is potentially tyrannical. I am…
Baseball is one of Your Humble Blogger’s passions; I expect that I will write about it as often as the brilliant and necessary Jon Carroll writes about cats. Enough to annoy those who read this Tohu Bohu for its rigorously…