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Author: Mr. McLaren
The Why of asking why.
To make up for posting stuff from my “million words you write and bury under a tree” yesterday, I’m going to post some Russell today. Specifically, here’s Russell on why philosophy is worth studying: Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known… Read more →
The Watchman
Today’s entry will be a little bit of a blast from the past; a little story, partly in epistolary form, that I wrote more than eight years ago. It was the result of one of those creativity exercises: in this case something along the lines of “write something based on the title of the next song that comes up on… Read more →
My day today
00:00 – 01:00 Still Thursday for me. Watch DVR’d Earl episode (recorded while I was on a conference call with Australians) while debugging some object scoping code on the laptop. 01:00 – 02:00 Daughter wakes up, is unhappy. Requires help with bathroom, and calming from Daddy. I go to bed and start reading the new G. M. Ford book, Blown… Read more →
And now from the “huh I didn’t know that” file…
So, you’ve heard about this “Last King Of Scotland” movie? I was doing a little reading on it today, which lead me to discover that Idi Amin named four of his sons McKenzie, Campbell, Mackintosh, and McLaren–but he had something like 45 kids, so maybe he was just short of names. Apparently he often wore a kilt. Something new everyday,… Read more →
Two in two days?
HBO turns ‘Fire’ into fantasy series HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fantasy series “A Song of Fire and Ice” into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. … The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for… Read more →
Universal Health Care: Take That Harpocrats!
Well, that graph by itself should go a long way towards answering the “received wisdom” from Canada’s right wing that “health care is broken”. And, it should also go a long way in helping the US left in justifying universal health care. The graph comes from a fairly detailed article on the results of a study into our more than… Read more →
Today’s Rage Aneurisym
I’m not sure which of these two straws are going to break the camel’s back, but… Over at Kos, they’re highlighting this segment of the NYT article headed “Pressure Builds Over Plan for Troop Increase“: Mr. Bush’s National Security Adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said in an interview on “Meet the Press” on NBC that the White House has sufficient money… Read more →
I almost don’t believe that
SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is… Read more →
How the Bush Administration Is Giving Me A Rage Aneurisym (Today)
Okay, so we already know that the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office — at least some of whom are in the midst of corruption investigations of Bush administration officials and key Republican lawmakers. We also know that they’re taking… Read more →
A Tuesday bookish miscellany
If you’ve read either his debut novel Elantris, or his sophomore effort Mistborn, you will definitely be interested in Brandon Sanderson’s website, since it includes detailed annotations for both books, along with a blog and lots of other stuff including info and exceprts from forthcoming works. Here’s a link to a recent essay on why authors would prefer you to… Read more →
Well, it made me laugh.
Still making sense…
I for one would pay tall dollars to watch a Rollins/Hannity debate. Read more →
BOG VENUS vs. NAZI COCK-RING
It’s possible that some of you might have heard that Alan Moore (oft-mentioned here) wrote up a survey of 25000 years of porn for Arthur magazine‘s winter 2006 issue. Clearly this is related to, and has grown out of, Moore’s research into the history of pornography as part of his work on Lost Girls. Indeed, if you’ve read any of… Read more →
Well, he is the Emporer, isn’t he?
Every time I think that there’s no way I could despise Bush and his administration more, he finds a way. “Do you believe as Commander in Chief you have the authority to put the troops in there no matter what the Congress wants to do,” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asks Bush in the short clip uploaded to the CBS… Read more →
