Sign of the times...cont'd.

Not everyone is put-off, panicked, or inconvenienced by last night's big snow storm: "Of Snow and Dogs and Materialist A**H***s" (Jason Peters @ Front Porch Republic)

"And a day later round the coffee pot at the Institution of Higher Learning I’ll be told that tonight was all just chemical reactions and brain states. Certified experts with PhDs in philosophy (though none of them loves wisdom) will tell me I’m just wagging my tail.

There’s not a child or a dog that can show these poor bastards the error of their ways. I’ll bet the sonsabitches are mad because they couldn’t get their Marxist Volvos out of their Humean driveways."

My sentiments exactly. Reads like a prose poem. Don't live in snow country if you can't handle it eh? Heh.

Sign of the times...cont'd.

Portrait of a Village School Teacher - 1958

I don't care what the sophisticated art expert types say; I like socialist realism as an art form. I like Norman Rockwell too. Oh yeah, I took art history in high school and as an undergrad student too, so it's not like I haven't been exposed to the various genres by experts with Ph.Ds. But most modern art is just crap without any soul, beauty or meaning that I can discover. If you like it fine. But I don't and since I am an expert on what I like, that settles that.

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The death of 'Caveman'Zimmerman ends an era in Idaho -The Idaho Statesman
Lived in a cave from 1947 until death at age 94.

Daniel McCarthy's ruminations on anarcho-capitalism -Tory Anarchist

Anarcho-capitalism is an untenable form of polity, IMHO. Capitalism can't exist with out a state entity.

"Have you read 'Sein und Zeit'? - Quick Study (Scott McLemee)

Graduate students twisting themselves into knots. Darkly funny. Why I quit graduate school myself.

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Obscurity versus clarity in prose: Adorno vs. Orwell - Lingua Franca (James Miller)

Atheist Group Calls on Obama to Endorse ‘National Day of Reason' Instead of 'National Day of Prayer' - CNSNews

Now even atheists are proselytizing.

The Instapundit's notions about cyber-war and being overly dependent on the web - Wall Street Journal