April 2012

  • Offline till Easter

    I'm going to do my best to stay completely off the net from now (Thursday evening) till Sunday. I wish and pray for a blessed Easter for everyone, especially those who don't believe. I would like to leave you with some serious message, if only a quotation from someone else, but I'm distracted and hurried halfway…

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  • “That’s dumb”…

    …is not generally a dispositive argument, but sometimes it is. Or at any rate there's not much point in saying more. Not everything in that piece is dumb, but I think that's a fair judgment of the general way of thinking on display there.

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  • …time's winged chariot hurrying near. I had a bit of a shock today: a call from the office of a doctor whom I'm supposed to see once a year for a heart exam telling me it's time to come in again. I started to argue that it had only been six months, or maybe at…

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  • Fifty Shades of Grey This is depressing: it seems that there is a pornographic novel called Fifty Shades of Grey which is extremely popular among women, and that its plot involves a young woman who gives herself as a masochistic sex slave to a billionaire. Here is one of several commentaries on it which I’ve…

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  • Campaign news

    from Neo-neocon.

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