For lack of anything good to talk about (I had to get myself ready early this morning, so I can’t remember what I dreamed about last night), I did watch John McCain and Rudy Giuliani last night on the television. No lover of Kerry myself (note my Nader support a couple posts back), I still [...]
First, in the dream recollection department, I remember quite distinctly that my dream involved driving between my grandma Quick’s house and grandma Gilmour’s house. Of course, in the dream, that involved getting across a swamp, and that in turn involved getting the car into two foot deep swamp water. Of course, midway across, Dad dropped [...]
I suppose I had some tingle of hope while Howard Dean was the leading man in the DNC, but now that Kerry is the man in charge, I’m definitely going with Nader. Besides, I live in Georgia–it’s going Republican. Even the Democrats are Republicans here. But here’s why Nader is the only responsible vote any [...]
I just finished reading Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence, and once again, I’m glad I don’t live in the world that Freud and his disciples claim we live in. In that world, it seems, happiness can either be simple material safety or it can be sadistic pleasure, but transcendence is always a simple extension [...]
Well, I’ve decided to do it. The folks over at The Ooze are all doing it, and they seem like good folks, so I’ve decided that a blog is the thing for me. I don’t know how disciplined I’ll be about writing, but I suppose we perform these experiements to find out those kinds of [...]
