Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Events (Politics), Web on Sep 27th, 2008
I really like the placement of some of the links this morning on Real Clear Politics:
I didn’t see the debate. But I’m looking forward to seeing the poll numbers on who won. The pundits don’t seem to agree. . . .
After going through the annoyance of waving (or is it “waiving,” since it’s a “waiver”?) Catholic U of A student health insurance a while back, I just got the following letter from Aetna (CUA’s student health insurance provider):
Today is the 26th. It takes 11 days to get here from Boston, evidently.
But more interesting than that, [...]
Posted in Movies on Sep 25th, 2008
In case anyone’s wondering, the new Bond film’s title, Quantum of Solace, is really cool.
A “quantum” is the smallest possible amount of something. It’s the amount that all other (non-zero) amounts are made from, by way of addition (a quantum + a quantum + a quantum + etc. = total amount).
(And without the idea of [...]
Posted in Culture, Religion, Theory (Politics) on Sep 20th, 2008
My associate pastor Adam (I’d rather just say, “my pastor Adam,” but I don’t know if I’m allowed) argues below that progressives aren’t so much focused on the poor as they are focused on the collective.
I think he’s wrong — at least when it comes to Christian progressives.
I think that Christian progressives are — practically-speaking [...]
The Wife and I just got a letter from one of her cousins which was addressed to the both of us.
They put my first name before The Wife’s, however.
That was very nice of them (from my point of view), of course. It makes me feel accepted and special.
But I would have expected her family (in [...]
Posted in Culture, General (Politics) on Sep 18th, 2008
While watching The Simpsons the other day, I realized that Lisa Simpson is the ideal progressivist (or “the progressivist’s ideal” or however you want to put it).
If you want to know what you should believe as a progressive about anything (the environment, governance, taxation, poverty, etc.), just study Lisa Simpson.
(Everyone knows Lisa is the “liberal” [...]
Posted in Culture, Events (Politics), Linguistics (Culture), Philosophy on Sep 16th, 2008
Celebrities and pundits are calling everything the other side does “cynical” these days.
Evidently, even a pick of a VP can be “cynical” now.
Back in my day, “cynical” meant the same as “pertaining to the cynics.”
Wikipedia writes:
Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. . [...]
Posted in Culture, Events (Politics) on Sep 16th, 2008
I keep hearing politicians and pundits talking about how some people care more about Wall St. than Main St., or how what’s happening to America’s families on Main St. isn’t being reflected in what’s happening to the fat cats on Wall St.
Where is this fabled Main St.? What happens there? Evidently it’s really important, and [...]
Posted in Culture, Events (General), Events (Politics) on Sep 15th, 2008
The issue of winners and losers has been coming up recently in the case of the big corporations the government people are “bailing” or “not bailing out.”
If your company turns out to be a loser, it gets helped. If it’s big enough.
Or it doesn’t get helped if it’s Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers is just a [...]
Posted in Culture, Events (Politics) on Sep 10th, 2008
Have you heard about the poll which says the world wants Obama to be President?
Let’s look at this from the conservative/libertarian point of view:
A bunch of people who reportedly don’t like us — and therefore whom we don’t like in return – want us to vote for a guy we don’t like.
It’s gotta be reverse psychology. I [...]
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