The Errant offers words on love and friendship from Massachusetts in honor of a ceremonial inerrancy. “This union…by which two lives are one, this sweet and strange adoption wherein we can but look, and are…
Date Archives October 2011
Eye (DARPA) in the Sky: Uncle Sam To Convert To Yahweh
From Emerson’s book “Nature”: Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball-I am nothing; I see all;…
Homo Moronus: Institutionalizing Ignorance One Voucher at a Time
Michael Dirda, book reviewer extraordinaire, opens his essay review on Jenny Uglow’s “The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World” this way: “In the time of the Lunar men science and art were…
Hedges’ CBC Interview on Occupy Wall Street: 7 Minutes of Media Anatomy
My friend Chad posted a Youtube video of Chris Hedges (you read his work, right?) discussing the Occupy Wall Street situation and Hedges’ “involvement” in it with a CBC morning show called “Lang and O’Leary”. …
Brave Thinkers? Peter Thiel wants to buy your kid’s ideas. Brilliant!
Okay, I subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly, but I’m not sure why. If it weren’t for James Fallows I would not even breathe a positive sigh in its direction. Mostly I see it as an…
Occupy Wall Street: A Sit-in Defining Being Against the Doing
Two bits, more than a shave and haircut, on the “unrest” that appears to be morphing nicely into actual thought. Both of these from the web magazine The New Significance: “A web magazine exploring revolutionary…
New After School Program Should Be Full Day Model
This is a “local” post, but don’t dismiss it–think how it might apply to the schools in your community. What follows is, in full, an article from today’s Herald Times intended to “color in” some…
In Praise of Life Work: Against Jobs
Today, walking the dogs, air heavy with a cold mist, moving up a gentle grade into the rising sun, trees in autumn raiment, yellow and fading reds, my eyes are on the road ahead, yet…
Sunday Sermon: (Nobel) Prizing Doing
What are people for? This is the title of a book of essays by Wendell Berry (and one of the essays within). I’d say people are not generally for anything. But that is probably not…
The Shackles of Citizenry: Guilty In Any Land
Quaint, quaint, quaint…the good old days. Imagine a time when being an American citizen was justifiably a dream of humans from all over the world. This was the great experiment in democracy and finally, eventually,…