What do I remember? Quite a bit, actually. I wasn't there, everything I experienced was mediated through the TV, the internet, newspapers, and most especially my friends, friends who were there ( Read more... )

What to say about Game of Thrones ( Read more... )

I never post. Who even reads this anymore? Who will notice? But I do want to make a record of my thoughts today, Inauguration Day 2017 ( Read more... )

Can it really be thirteen years? How is that possible? That time can slip past us, all the time noticed, marked, remembered, honored and yet... invisible ( Read more... )

Wrote this for a debate. It seems worthwhile to put it here, seems like it is something a more dedicated journalist would post ( Read more... )

Wending my way from colintj's debate post on literature,

http://community.livejournal.com/debate/4061228.html?nc=114

I encountered this meme, which struck my fancy. Some are ridiculously easy, some will probably puzzle. This is not by design.

1) Select 5-10 (or so) favourite books ( Read more... )

In response to a radically changed world situation since the Islamist attacks of 9/11, the United States under George W. Bush has adopted a broad new approach to national security. The Bush Doctrine, as this policy has come to be known, emphasizes the need for preemption in order to “confront the worst threats before they emerge.” It also stresses ( Read more... )

So, I was struck by lightning.

Dramatic pause.

Well, to be honest it wasn't me so much as policraticus. At the beginning of August we had some wicked weather (no offense NOLA/Galveston) and the upshot was that pretty much every piece of technology in the house was in some way shorted out, fused, melted or otherwise rendered into so much scrap. Check this ( Read more... )

From my point of view, God created the world, and the way it works. Therefore plate tectonics, subduction, earthquakes and tsunamis and the physics behind it all are his work. In fact things like tectonics, the water cycle which produces storms, vulcanism are actually necessary for life to exist on Earth. However, why do these natural forces ( Read more... )

Seven Stanzas at Easter ( Read more... )