July 2010
5 posts
“Four of the best things in America are Walt Whitman’s Leaves, Herman...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
“I will give you all some.”
– Robert Charles, 1900. (Wikipedia: Robert Charles Riots)
June 2010
12 posts
“In a football match, everything is complicated by the presence of the other...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, 1960. (From Wall Street Journal, “Review: Soccer and Philosophy”)
May 2010
3 posts
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April 2010
8 posts
“38% of the female respondents indicated that if there were a nuclear war and Pee...”
– Wilson Library Bulletin, “The 1992 Librarians and Sex Survey”.
“They talk of Chile while driving through Haslingden”
– The Fall, “English Scheme”
March 2010
5 posts
“That Lynndie England went to jail for doing things that John Yoo made legal, and...”
– Andrew Sullivan
February 2010
12 posts
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What I’m interested in scientifically is understanding thought with computational precision. I mean, the romantic idea that poetry comes from this deep inarticulable ur-stuff is a nice idea, but I think it is essentially false. I think the mind is articulable and the heart probably knowable. Unless you’re a mystic and believe in a soul, which I don’t, you really don’t...
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“As long as the ancien régime, as an established world order, was struggling...”
– Karl Marx, “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” 1844.
January 2010
6 posts
“The facebook update, and the low round of applause it brings: symptom of our...”
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