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Friday, July 01, 2016

Your Musical Interlude XXXIII

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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Meaning in History by Karl Löwith: Chapter 1 - Burckhardt (Part One)

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In some ways the work of Jacob Burckhardt is a strange place to start for a book interested in the philosophy of history. Burckhardt himself...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Meaning in History by Karl Löwith: Introduction

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Meaning in History Karl Löwith University of Chicago Press, 1949 Löwith begins his book, sensibly enough, by defining his topic. He is wr...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Mothers Depicted As Sexual Beings On Virginia Campus; Nation Shocked And In Mourning

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Norfolk, VA Four members of the Old Dominion University student body were publicly executed and their corpses summarily expelled from the...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The Rise Of Anti-Semitism Continues Unabated

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Now a Jewish artist cannot perform at a music festival unless he proves he's the "right kind of Jew." - Jewish groups protest...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Charity In The New America

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From the wisdom of Justice Kennedy in the Obergefell dictum: Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to reli...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Straw Meets Camel's Back

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Shit gets you down. A lot of shit gets you way down. And sometimes sports doesn't give you a break from shit, it only piles it higher an...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

The "Us vs. Them" Pope

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There are good reasons why someone like Cardinal Raymond Burke would have made a terrible pope. At the crux of the matter there is the marke...
Friday, November 07, 2014

A New Venture

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And now for something completely different... I've actually been contemplating putting together a philosophy tinged podcast which wo...
Thursday, October 09, 2014

I'm Tired Of Dishonest Bullshit

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This is the straw that broke my back. I'm sorry but it is impossible for any thinking person to be against people having government i...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Sleepless In America: 2014 Edition

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God only knows how anyone in this country can sleep when we don't know if the redhead from the Wendy's commercials has the correct ...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Unwanted Thoughts Of A Rank Outsider

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The long awaited vote is on in Scotland. I have absolutely no dog in the question of an independent Scotland. Not a one. Oh, I think there i...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

If You Ever Wonder Why I Don't Blog Much Anymore....

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....here is exhibit #7688 : That link takes you to a website called "The Moderate Voice" [sic], which these days apparently beli...
Thursday, July 03, 2014

The Ignorant Intolerant and Narrow Minded Left

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I used to think that description only accounted for 10-15% of the political left in this country, and the vast majority of it confined to th...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

The New York Dumb Times

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I have often lamented that we live in an era of degraded journalism. Journalists of today are less independent, less articulate, less well r...
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