Incandescence

I just got back from my surprise trip to New Haven. What fun (read that with heavy sarcasm). Now I have 45-ish composition papers to grade for tomorrow. Overall, this ...

5. Wars should never be decided on the basis of popularity, but by what guarentees the freedoms the United States and the World Abroad. These freedoms being imparted on us ...

Who cares if it's a "good" thing for us? You can't prove that anything is "good" for you because it relies on a paradigm that is constantly shifting. For a ...

You know, the other day I realized I was a fatalist, and then I thought, "Yeah, sure, but what can I do about it?"

Capitalism is consumed in the idea of objectification. What most feminists miss in their formula for "objectifying women...[through Victoria's Secret] is wrong," is that it isn't just women being obje

Qi, Kierkegaard has nothing to do with this debate, in what form? Saying Kierkegaard has nothing to do with such a debate (when he devoted his life to these very ...

Kierkegaard, for your information, Qi, is arguably the single-most important theologian to emerge from Europe for the past two hundred or so years. He has quite a bit to do ...

Yeah, I mean, as I've said before, Jesus may tell us to "turn the other cheek" and "love thy neighbour" ("The only good neighbor is a dead one!" (Kierkegaard)), but ...

Qi: Jesus did not "win" the vote for Bush by any means. Sure, Bush's religious affiliation may have given him more votes, but it certainly did not cause a "win" ...

No. It's hurting the Republicans.

In part, Griffin, I agree, but can I make a quick suggestion? (not that I actually care if you want one) I suppose I chose Gilligan's Island precisely because it ...

I've been thinking about our world and "catastrophe" lately. One of my colleagues recently pointed out to me that the "apocalypse" is never actually a narrative about the death of ...

Men are controlled by women, Gal. It's not a monotonic linear vector.

It's my Halloween costume!: Tongue 'n' cheek.

Physicists more often that not use American system versus the Metric. Slugs and Pounds are far more difficult to deal with than Newtons and the like.