"….in their minds one thing doesn’t come from another thing. Nothing is the result of anything. Everything merely is, and no questions asked. Even the language they speak is constructed around that. Each fact is separate, and one never depends on the other. Everything is explained by the constant intervention of Allah. And whatever happens …
A recent article by George Will in the Washington Post claimed that liberals are markedly less charitable than conservatives. Liberals, he says, regard charitable giving as retrograde , "a poor palliative for an inadequate welfare state and a distraction from achieving adequacy by force, by increasing taxes". Democrats, he tells us, represent a majority of …
Your Government has suspended the Fourth Amendment, authorized torture, proclaimed itself empowered to break the law, and has sent the nation’s top law enforcement officer to lie blatantly about how and why the 9/11 attacks happened so it you could acquire still more unchecked spying power and get rid of lawsuits that would expose what …
The objective of this blog is to "plumb the psychic ruptures in the American imaginary as a speculum for examining the violence, tragedies and trauma of the American self". One should publicize pseudo-artistic rhetoric and hold it up to ridicule at every opportunity. The above sentence was copied down during a visit to a New …
At a performance of "Rigoletto" last night the opera was reaching its climax. Gilda was wrapped, dying, in her death sack and Rigoletto was about to rip the sack open to discover her, mortally wounded. At this crucial moment, when the rest of the audience was holding its breath, gripped by the tragedy, my next …
