The Death of the Author(ity)

I’m always lying in bed when my best thoughts come to me. I’m not sure if this is because everything over the day is coming together, if it’s because the one time I can’t be bothered to write things down or save the world is when I’m trying to get to sleep, or if it’s [...]

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On Being A Good German

My latest bourgeois intellectual trend has been a spate of anti-capitalist reading and discourse – I’m now pretty certain that Adam Smith is keeping down the big man, the little man, the black man, and the woman. Dealing with the consequences of this has been difficult – I just finished reading Naomi Klein’s book No [...]

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Selling Short

When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and
measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d [...]

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Saved By Celebrity

Once again, the internet intelligentsia has intervened on my behalf to further validate that I either a.) know what I’m talking about or b.) leech all of my ideas off of prominent academic figures.
This particular piece comes from Christopher Hitchens, a man who I have a great deal of respect/envy/lust for, commenting on the absurdities [...]

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If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Make It Illegal

Among my many mild to moderate obsessions, I have an odd fascination with anti-capitalist and anarchist graffiti. Banksy, probably the best known among them, never fails to amaze me; I’ll confess to a mild to moderate Mancrush, and a (unfounded) suspicion that he looks something like Spiderman. A guy can dream, right? Anyway, there’s a [...]

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Illegal, Part II

Picking up where I left off – advocating political revolution. (Just kidding – don’t deport me.) I’ve already given a somewhat grounded or at least lengthy description of why I don’t trust politicians; in effect, because I don’t trust regular people and I don’t trust “small-town values,” which is exactly what politicians try for when [...]

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Caution: Curves Ahead

Despite the title, this post will, unfortunately, not feature pictures of Jessica Alba in a bikini… but if you have any, you know where to send them. 
Running a blog is tough business – I think that what I write and the way I write is confined in a number of ways by the medium – [...]

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Mere Christianity

Note: In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve edited this post since it first went up – in response to people actually reading my blog, I decided to value add a little content. As far as I can remember, nothing potentially embarrassing has been removed – I’ve just expanded sections.
Reading CS Lewis to test your [...]

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Who Watches the Watchmen?

Battle not
with monsters,
lest ye become
a monster,

and if you gaze
into the abyss
the abyss gazes
also into you.
 I’m concerned about America. I’m concerned about the people I know, about the people I don’t, about the society I belong to and the one that I don’t. I’m feeling at odds with almost everyone I encounter in the world, and [...]

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When I’m Right, I’m Right

My internet news addiction has led me to independent confirmation that once again, I’m pretty clever and Sarah Palin is pretty dumb.
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
 
She apparently believes that the Iraq war is a mission directed by God, as is drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. I swear to you that I was making that up at the time, but [...]

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