As of today, not one person of the 18 who have reviewed Paul Auster's latest novel on Amazon has understood it. The allegory, the bitter irony, the hypocrisy, the whoring, the self-absorption (he mentions the Weimar Republic for a reason) was so unsubtle it almost bludgeoned me to death, and still not a single reviewer took any notice of it ( Read more... )

http://www.red-ice.net/specialreports/2006/02feb/canadahypocrisy.html

To say Canada's tolerance is hypocritical is to state the obvious, but these are times in which what used to be obvious has become obscure.

A guy starts a blog parodying liberal non-thinking and almost no one seems to get the joke. http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/005054.html

People say they are fortunate to know me, as my gifted insights are relentlessly instructive. Of course, as an accomplished ( Read more... )

Oh my oh my. Did you know that Darwinism is one of the core foundational concepts of Scientology? I just read something about that, and it really makes you wonder. Scientology has already been linked to occult beliefs by many people who have investigated it; Darwin has, too. Not surprising. All those people who make fun of Tom Cruise and then make ( Read more... )

Prefab Sprout - Here on the EerieIt's much more beguiling than children at play ( Read more... )

I love taking a class where I get to read & write about detective fiction. This is gonna be a fun essay to write... and away I go! Here's my opening ( Read more... )

Etymology is a revealing science; words often say more than what they seem to say on the surface. For instance, if you trace "left" back to its origins you get:

c.1205, from Kentish form of O.E. lyft- "weak, foolish" (cf. lyft-adl "lameness, paralysis," E.Fris. luf, Du. dial. loof "weak, worthless")The left-hand path, that's for sure. And the only ( Read more... )

This was written almost 300 years ago, but it could have been written yesterday:

I began with railing at her Books; the barbarous Design of exposing People that never had done her any Injury; she answer'd me she was become Misanthrope, a perfect Timon, or Man-Hater; all the World was out of Humour with her, and she with all the World, more ( Read more... )

They just keep on coming, without me even trying.

The trouble with fascists:
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/02/trouble-with-fascists_07.html

It seems every time I get to wondering about something, along come clues to help with the detective work. I get to thinking about the implications of scientific materialism re: the soul, and it just so happens a book I'm reading (The Morality of Everyday Life by Thomas Fleming), comments on this, and points me in the direction of philosophers who ( Read more... )