Hibbs coughed considerately and said, “Of course all our things came from the East, and” – and he paused, being suddenly unable to remember anything but curry; to which he was very rightly attached. He then remembered Christianity, and mentioned that too. I’m surprised that none of the right-wing Islamophobes seems to have found his [...]
Of course the cartoon would make a little more sense if they didn’t work for the government ….
My friend Aviezer Tucker, author of the (p)anarchist article “The Best States: Beyond the Territorial Fallacy,” has an amusing piece in the Prague Post this week titled “It’s a Small World.” I met Aviezer at the PCPE in Prague last March; Sophia, the daughter he mentions in the piece, essentially learned to walk on the [...]
Why whoever came up with the plot of World War II was a lousy writer. (CHT Ken MacLeod.)
I’ve heard most of Tom Lehrer’s songs multiple times, but until now I’d never seen footage of him performing them. Somehow his performance comes across as edgier – and less merely whimsical – when you can see it as well as hear it; his anger and contempt toward the cold-war political establishment are even more [...]
Funny. But notice how Olbermann manages to make the narrator seem angry where the text suggests merely bewildered anxiety – like Lewis Black reading a Woody Allen routine.
Speaking of Doctor Who, I came across a pretty good parody, written by Steven Moffat himself back before the series had been revived. I have to say, Rowan Atkinson’s not bad as the Doctor.
Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi has been making news for his pathbreaking discovery that immodest women are the cause of earthquakes. But I believe Rita Hayworth beat him to it.
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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