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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Beginning and the Beyond

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Or Ground and Telos, Origin and Destiny, Source and Vector, Creation and Salvation, Center and Top, Depth and Height, Order and Direction. ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Fantasies Have Consequences: Egoic Expansion and Presidential Shrinkage

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So, yesterday Newt Gingrich suggested that Obama is “not a real president.”

 Rather, he's a fantasy figure playing a fantasy role, in...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Secondhand Know-it-Alls and Third-Rate Believers

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Last night I caught a few moments of an interview of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Piers Morgan. I know. The unspeakable and the insufferable. T...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

High Frequency God Whistles

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No time for a new post and hardly enough time for an old one, bearing in mind that I can never simply exhumine my precogitated bloggerel wit...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

When Narratives Fail

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It's too bad the term "narrative" is being beaten to death, because it's such an important concept. I'm afraid it...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Ten Things Every Educated Human Needs to Know

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People love lists. I just typed "the ten" at amazon and the autofill does the rest: "faces of innovation," "most b...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Rodeo Clown Media and their Crazed Bull

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One of the primary functions of the Rodeo Clown Media (RCM) is to obsess over the periphery while systematically ignoring the center. Some...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Playing Faust & Loose with the Facts of Existence

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Although I still believe Romney will win easily in November -- mainly because polsters cannot capture just how eager we are to oust the Inco...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

We Gotta Let Him Go

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While there's still some resemblance to America. Say, those wouldn't be brown shirts, would they?
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Metastatic Liberalism in the Body Politic

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It's amazing how similar liberals are to Islamists in the logic department (then again maybe not, because Islamism borrows at least as m...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Logopathology, Talking Heads, and Political Hatred

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Sure, you'd never apologize for the first amendment, but then you're not a constitutional scholar, are you? A leftist constitutiona...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Wisdom and Magic at the Edge of the Expressible

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I want to begin with an arresting comment by Schuon , who, after saying just about all that can be said about the essential structure of thi...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

How the Cosmos Works, Part One

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Where would nihilists be if they didn't have reality to rebel against? Even -- or especially -- Satan is no atheist, which is one of th...
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Friday, September 07, 2012

Obama is a Dream Come True. HELLLLLP!

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It is a kind of harmonic convergence that we're discussing Voegelin -- that great diagnostician and pathologist of political disorders -...
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Thursday, September 06, 2012

Tweet Nothings

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First day of school. Chaos. Traffic. Blah blah blah yada yada. The most I can do is toss out a dozen or so tweet nOthings or new tweett...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

The DNC: Nowhere Men in a No-Man's Land

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In view of the enormities of contemporary liberalism, it seems like a small thing. Yet, expunging the word God from their platform is both ...
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