If Hillary gets elected, I think that item one on the agenda should be Hillary on her knees thanking Jack Nicholson for his endorsement. As his character Col. Jessup says in the movie ( Read more... )

From Wikipedia on Anthony Burgess' The Wanting Seed
Pelphase, Interphase, Gusphase...

Often repeated in the novel is the concept that history is cyclical. As Tristram explains in the first few chapters to his slumbering history class, there are three phases: Pelphase, Interphase, and Gusphase.Pelphase is named after Pelagianism, the theology of ( Read more... )

Seems to me, there's 3 axes (axises? axiis?) that help describe religions. The most obvious (to Christian conservatives) is the X-axis of textualism, we'll say the left is less textually based and right is more textually based. (I mean in importance...) The Y-axis being social justice, we'll say the lower half is low priority of social justice, ( Read more... )

The NBA recently had their AllStar game here in New Orleans, where many players and executives participated in the rebuilding effort, and got to see the city. They bought out our whole restaurant for the evening, and I was stationed in the "Seance Lounge" which is decorated in the style of a French bordello. Four other Cajun girls were working ( Read more... )

The Imam of Canterbury ( Read more... )

Germaine Greer, "We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional." The Whole Woman ( Read more... )

o.k., so, as it turns out, I've been approaching futurism all wrong. I should've taken the short course, and not approached it from the world of ideas, but rather from popular culture. Today, I watched Stargate Atlantis, which contained many of the futurist ideas from blogs previous, specifically that there was a race of AI creatures, which took ( Read more... )

So, I've been wondering off and on, about criteria for systems, and what does it take for something to be different from something else... I mean, statistically ( Read more... )

Something struck me recently when a colleague of mine with whom I'd had some issues, offered me an olive branch by asking me about a Hebrew word from a Steinbeck novel. Little did I realize that this tertiary character in my life would prompt an actual existential crisis, not by issues related to being coworkers, but my research into the word ( Read more... )

O.k., as much as I would love to be the once-Schaefferian creature who clearly 'knew it when I saw it' e.g. line of despair, I'm beyond the binary, the line is gone, and I'm wandering through an acid trip where I can't be sure of what 'is' and how to tell, and what it means to be 'is ( Read more... )