Crispier Than Thou
2015-03-26 – I don’t eat a lot of potato chips. I did once and I have fond memories of their potato-ey goodness. But I try (often unsuccessfully) to avoid empty […]
Tag Archives: philosophy
Optimism About Nihilism
2015-03-17 – The snow is nearly gone, but the filth of winter emerges in the melt. A season’s worth of soot-from-the-air and pebbles-from-the-disintegrating-street. This is not poetry. This is my […]
What We Need Is an Official Fake Congress
2015-03-15 – What we need is an official Fake Congress. When I first started thinking about this, I thought it might be a good idea to have a place to […]
The Risks of Living in a Safe World
2015-02-26 – I have a Facebook friend who seems to be an anti-vaxxer. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. You can’t always tell from Facebook. My Facebook friend is […]
Big Pharma vs. Big Insurance
2015-02-08 – One of the knocks on the widely accepted wisdom that #vaccineswork is that this knowledge is corrupted because of Big Pharma. The idea is that Big Pharma falsified […]
Webs That Tie Us to War
2015-01-19 – Are moderate Muslims responsible for jihadi terrorism? Rupert Murdoch seems to think so. The Daily Show (and other liberals) don’t. Who’s right? I have believed for a long […]
A Rebel of Advancing Age
2015-01-15 – Oh, what is it like to get old? I suppose that question comes to mind because today I have a sore back. Most likely the soreness is due […]
Share This If You Are Susceptible to Emotional Blackmail
2015-01-11 – Did you ever get one of these on Facebook? “I love my Mom. Share this if you love your Mom!” Did you share it? There are lots of […]
Don’t Forget About Sunk Costs
2014-25-2014 – Okay. It was a bad year. Lost job. Illness and death in the family. Last kid is off to college and we’re alone. Friend dies. New job is […]
My Expert Review of “The Interview” – One Star
2014-12-23 – I haven’t written may movie reviews for the simple, but apparently misguided reason that I don’t see many movies. I now realize that shouldn’t stop me. In the […]
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