THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
A CHAPTER THAT MAY BE SKIPPED BY ANYONE NOT PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED BY THINKING AS AN OCCUPATION
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The War on Terror
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We are testudines testa sua inclusi , like so many tortoises in our shells, safely defended by an angry sea, as a wall on all sides. -Robert...
crumenimulga natio
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[a purse-milking nation] "That the state was like a sick body which had lately taken physic, whose humors are not yet settled, and weak...
The Audacity of Hope
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Can hope— desire —be dangerous? Qui cupiet, metuet quoque porro, Qui metuens vivit, liber mihi non erit unquam. [Who hath desires must ever ...
Through a glass, darkly
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Why do we condemn the Bill Clintons, the John Edwards, the Tiger Woods of the world? Why do we Americans (prudish so) hold our celebrities s...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Semantics in the Sino-American Relationship
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"Watch yer mouth, son!" Next week, when President Obama arrives in Beijing, he will represent a nation that maintains "positi...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Last Words from Death Penalty Inmates
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John Allen Muhammad, AKA "The DC Sniper," who was put to death today in Virginia by lethal injection. He declined a last statement...
Monday, November 2, 2009
Love as a Verb
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On the Dao, "Loving" over "Love," and the Gerundal Nature of Happiness... The entire venerable canon of 5,000 years wort...
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