Micah Tillman

My weekly article was posted yesterady at The Free Liberal, I just didn’t notice.

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Recently someone got to my blog through a search for:
pronunciation and meaning of the word archive
Reminded me of Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever, which I haven’t read.
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The “ch” in “archive” is pronounced like a “K” or “hard C” (as in “kept,” “cap,” “candle,” “kind”), and the stress/emphasis/accent is on the first syllable:
AR-kyv
. . . where “AR” [...]

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Stories like this make my little heart go pitter-pat:
“Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak“
When I’m with my grandparents (any of the 5 of them) I often find myself thinking about the technological/medicinal advancements made since they were young.
Then I start to wonder how barbaric the technology and medicine of today will look when I get [...]

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Or rather, to the search terms used by some person or persons via which s/t/he/y ended up on my blog:
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nietzsche the use and disadvantage of history for life the truth may be deadly
Indeed. Read “The Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life” (or, “The Use and Abuse of History for Life.”
It’s one of his Untimely [...]

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. . . [D]espite accelerating emission rates and concentrations, there’s been no net warming in the 21st century. It don’t add up!
-Marlo Lewis

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. . . was when my self-described “radical left-wing” grandfather said, with disgust, that he didn’t want to watch communists put on a show.
(We were making plans to watch the opening ceremonies of the olympics, you see.)
I wonder how he’ll feel about the DNC festivities later this month.
He wore an Obama pin every day we [...]

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Start with the “paragraph” that begins “The 5:20 TBA” in this Washington Post piece. Read three “paragraphs.” (Or read this Washington Post blog post instead.)
If you remember what neo-liberal/progressive patriotism is, you’ll see that Obama has essentially just identified himself and it.
The Right is right: he’s not patriotic. He’s patriotism.
He, like progressive philopatria, directs you [...]

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[ Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5 | Vol. 6 | Etc. ]
Tootsie
Surprisingly good. Movies about people living lies really bother me, but I survived this one.
Deals with some good issues regarding what it means to be an excellent person, and whether it would be good to [...]

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Whenever I hear someone talk about the violence of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” I can’t help but think of France’s national anthem:
To arms, citizens! / Form your battalions / Let’s march, let’s march! / May a tainted blood / Soak our furrows!
To arms, citizens! / Let us form our battalions / Let us march, let us [...]

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One by one our fellow congregants called for the mic, took it, and stood to congratulate the team (after their presentation).
It was good for them (the Colombian congregation) to see our team refuse — and explain their refusal — to sing the US anthem, said one responder.
Why it was good — what it was the [...]

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