I find it particularly funny that the only reason for not support Don Imus is because he's a moron, not due to any "moral outrage ( Read more... )

While a substantial portion of the school maybe classified as "moderate", the general leanings of the institution is very definately left leaning. That's not what I'm actually decrying, since I would consider myself somewhat left of center. What's troubling is the justification for their particular gestalt. There is a culture here that is so ( Read more... )

Favorite question to ask biblical literalists.

"God cures cancer, rabies, and blindness, but why doesn't he cure amputees?"

You know... the arab world isn't doing a particularly good job of making itself look good [Read: Too much of the Arab world isn't putting enough effort to act in way that doesn't suggest they are raving mad lunatics (The double negative is intentional)]. I'm just putting that out there.

I saw the film yesterday, and I enjoyed it a lot. I feel a lot of the criticism stems from a lack of understanding of what the film is actually trying to accomplish.

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I'm thinking of doing a winter term project next on Philosophy of Music.

I have two major problems...

-Sponsor, I might get Mrs. Macdonald to sponsor me, Mr. Field might have an interest, but not the time...
-I will proably have to read Adorno, I hate Adorno.

Background: My first dorm had a co-ed, open showers.

I had taken group showers with the grandson of W.V.O. Quine. Only now do I think this is odd...

You know that Human Condition thing? The collective Human experience and all that jazz? Yeah, that thing... We might want to work on that first.

When you mention "Opera Singer", the most visceral image is that of Pavarotti. That of a rotund Italian Tenor or a hulking teutonic Brünnhilde trained at a prestigious European conservatory.

The actual standard is actually the American Opera singer, trained in an American conservatory (or school of music). Though, of course, probably trained in ( Read more... )

Ah, Opening Night, that's always fun. Mark Adamo seemed to love the duet ( Read more... )