To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
--Thomas Pynchon, V.
Pynchon is something of an obsession with me. I re-read either V. or The Crying of Lot 49 every year.
Recent Posts
- Persuasion
Three reasons to vote Obama - Frankly Speaking
A tax on bad philosophy - Stuff to Burn
Our energy future shouldn't be stuff-based - Pizza Economics
Shrinking the pie - Taxes
Taxes, official and unofficial - The Ferris Bueller Comparison
"He makes you look like an ass, Ed." - Palin Comparison
Anti-intellectualism is as American as Baked Alaska - Nutcase
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you sue - Batcrap
The new Batman movie sucks - New Declaration
You say you want a revolution . . . - It's Friday . . .
Paul Thorn - Prescience
All was foretold by HST - R.I.P. Don S. Davis
The Major goes to the White Lodge - Inhaling
Obama torches civil liberties and it stinks - It's Friday . . .
Getting ready for the big ride this weekend - Committee
Meet the men who'll choose the Republiveep - Clueless
You people sure can cook! - Under God's Syllabus
Darwin's not in the lesson plan - Aspects
Warrantless wiretaps are worse than telecomm immunity - Hump Day
I'd rather not be blogging - Antidisinformation
What's at stake - Alex
Who's gonna fight McCain's war? - Car Dealerships?!?
This is not your father's military base - Imperfect
Do Obama supporters really not care that our candidate supports the abrogation of the Fourth Amendment and the trashing of the rule of law? - Venn Diagram
Bleakness, desolation, plastic forks - Principles
"When the Government tells you to do something, I think you all recognize, uh, that that is something that you need to do." - Destinations
Where I'd most like to go - Bravo Marcy
Marcy Kaptur votes against tyranny - Under God's Presidency
Our leader always knows the right thing to do - Equivalently Orwellian
Obama & AT&T: separated at birth? - House Votes to Kill Civil Liberties
. . . and Obama says "Good idea!" - Heartbreaking
A young father finally gets to put his newborn daughter on his chest - It's Friday . . .
My official song of summer - The Situation is Dire
Civil liberties in peril - Stupidity
Psychic accusations - Intelligence
A politician who trusts people to think - Under God's Civilization
Ruthless atheists stalk the land - Boobs
The threat of undraped statuary - Good-Natured
Sick jokes on Obama - Hump Day
Obligatory Wednesday sex post - Celtics
The end of a 22 year drought - Cars
Honda drinks Detroit's milkshake - Under God's Scoutmaster
Intolerance:scout's honor - Dehydrated Babies!
Huh?
Greatest Hits
- Don't Turnitin: Annotated Bibliography
Survey of critical articles about Turnitin.com - The Big Dog in the Glass City
Bill Clinton hits Toledo - Cults
The MSM's cult of Obama cult analogies - So Far
Supporting Obama - Enough!
When will the MSM look beyond race and gender? - V. Season
My annual Xmas read - Homeland
The Orwellian vibe of the word - Framing Blackwater
Just don't call them mercenaries - Musharraf & Dick the Butcher
Suppressing lawyers is the start of tyranny - When?
Frustrations with the Democrats - More Speech
Even hateful speakers should not be sued into silence - Speechless
Ignorance of Iran enables Bush to define it his way - Despair
Falling out of love with America - Insults and Injuries
Trying to understand offensiveness - Bias
Flintstones science and brain drain - 250 days . . .
Huckabee wins the debate - 275 days . . .
Edwards' program for rural America - Buckley
Consider the fate of LBJ - Carnival of the Liberals #35
It's carnival time - Off the Record
Bloggers, cozy relationships, and off-the-record censorship - 307 days . . .
Wanting to be seduced by Obama - 315 days . . .
More high school culture on the campaign trail - Incompetence
It's not the idiocy, it's the ideology - Sisterhood
Why are we surprised when exclusive groups exclude? - 332 days . . .
Presidential politics as high school social life - Rocks
Hooking up with some real strange metaphors - 340 days . . .
Dowd on Obama, translated - 357 days . . .
Evolution: my single issue - Idiot America
There are not two sides to every issue if only one is supported by the facts - Charles Stimson Hates Korematsu
The proud tradition of unpopular pro bono work - Cuba
Our Cuba policy makes no sense - Devil or Angel?
How should the Democrats run the House? - Breasts
Breast size determines political thought - Lenny, David & Skatje
The remedy for hate speech isn't a ban, it's more speech - Withdrawal
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality" - Urbanity
Why cities are blue and the countryside is red - Thucydides Nails It
2,500 years ago seems like yesterday - (In)competence
In Iraq because of deceit, not because of an intelligence failure - Resonance
The father figure freezes to death in the wilderness, and all for naught
Categories
Good Blogs
- Acephalous
- AMERICAblog
- BAGnewsNotes
- Balloon Juice
- Blog of Rights
- BlondeSense
- Carnival of the Liberals
- Crooked Timber
- Crooks and Liars
- Daily Kos
- Eschaton
- Firedoglake
- Historymike
- Hullabaloo
- MyDD
- Or Does It Explode?
- Pandagon
- Pharyngula
- Ruins of Empire
- Sandmonkey
- Shakesville
- Talking Points Memo
- The Lippard Blog
- Think Progress
- Thoughtcrimes
- Unclaimed Territory
- Winding Road in Urban Area
Good MSM
Cost of the War in Iraq
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