With Such A Lustre He That Runs May Read
Feb 12SPOILER ALERT FOR SECRET WARRIORS #1: Spider-man may be gushing over Obama, but Nick Fury sure isn’t. In last week’s Secret Warriors #1, Fury finds out that S.H.I.E.L.D., the anti-terrorist organisation he’s worked for since Strange Tales #135 in 1965, has all along been a front for the terrorist group HYDRA. So he breaks into [...]
Beauty in Alabama
Feb 12Next month (March 7-9) the Auburn University Philosophy Department is hosting its first annual philosophy conference – the Auburn Philosophy Conference, or APC for short. It’ll have a different topic each year; this year’s topic is Beauty. This first time around we have only invited speakers (hence no call for papers); this approach may or [...]
Darwin 200
Feb 12In honour of Charles Darwin’s bicentenary, an observation: How are statists and creationists alike? For one thing, as I’ve observed before, both “distrust invisible-hand processes and cannot conceive of order emerging except through some sort of centralised top-down control.” For another, both raise the same hackneyed objections to spontaneous order again and again, as if [...]
Gaimania!
Feb 12I saw the movie (3D version, which is definitely the way to see it) of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline the other night; it was beautifully done (and all physically real stop-motion – no CGI) and I highly recommend it. Admittedly, I have some gripes about the story changes (this review by Gary Westfahl captures many of [...]
Why I Slam the Mute Button
Feb 09Just now Rachel Maddow’s show is featuring a clash between Maddow’s economically and historically illiterate assertion that FDR’s domestic programs ended the Great Depression and Mitch McConnell’s economically and historically illiterate assertion that World War II ended the Great Depression. Whee! Left-wing ignoramuses facing off against right-wing ignoramuses! Salvation through slaughtering piglets versus salvation through [...]
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