A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. (Pope, Alexander. An Essay On Criticism) Hush, I tell myself. I do not know all the intricacies of the economic times. I do know that I still have… Continue reading this entry
My dear Libertarian friends, I have always watched you from where we are on the Right, and I have wondered: what are you really about? I am interested in politics not so much to push a Far-Right agenda unto the rest of the people, but because I believe that, between the Right from where I… Continue reading this entry
Being the election season that it is, it’s hard to not turn political at random moments. The co-worker, the family member, or friend whose politics don’t match with my own can become sources of marvelous conversation. All too often, though, I engage in something that I have observed among bloggers on the Right a lot.… Continue reading this entry
I watched the first half at the gym through closed captioning, which I found to be quite a blessing considering the profuse stammering from Sen. Obama and the also-but-not-as-profuse stammering from Sen. McCain. I’ve gone through a few of the links on Instapundit’s roundup, and I’ll have to ape the emailed comment by Jeff Garzik… Continue reading this entry
Considering my personal schedule I’m just glad I can record shows and get back to them later on. It’s fall again, and every network and their mother has a must-see show. Here’s my fall viewing list, according to priority. Watch within the week of showing: House, The Mentalist (review coming up soon), Fringe, Supernatural, Terminator:… Continue reading this entry
A moment of Zen today while going through my reading list while being on hold on the phone while, you know, working: The key to pattern recognition is knowing which apparent patterns to reject because the pattern doesn’t really make sense.
Hey there, it’s been a while. I remember you, a long while back. We used to blog and chitchat about things politics all the time. You may even be one of those now-disaffected Republicans whose ideas back then showed me just how strong those ideas are. Before I unleash the torrent of questions both rhetorical… Continue reading this entry
David Foster Wallace is dead.* * – Whose very existence I first learned of through an Onion spoof. Having done so, I sampled some of his work that I could find online and was astounded by his creative use of verbose footnotes, not so much to elucidate a point, whose very elucidation would have diverted… Continue reading this entry
How fast time flies. Seven years ago on this day a terrible, terrible terrorist attack—an act of war—was launched upon us. Quite frankly, we the people responded in a way that, while unsurprising and fully expected of us (the acts of nobility before and after, and yes, letting loose the dogs of war) I fully… Continue reading this entry
When I call myself a beer drinker, I mean to say that I drink beer if I want to get some drink in me. I will not claim to be a connoisseur of anything alcohol, as my taste buds are quite desensitized. That said, I still can not drink a stout in order to get… Continue reading this entry