[In which we conclude that Stubb’s version of the monkey-rope is evil.] What is Equality? The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities 10Erectile dysfunction may occur regardless of the post- tadalafil…
Date Archives July 2014
How Derogation Works
Which do you think is worse thing to hear come out of your child’s mouth? “Bitch” or “Fuck”? There are a lot of really hateful and bigoted things to say out there and most of…
The Impossible Principle
Melville wrote books that could be said to be about: Christian hypocrisy in the Marquesas, authoritarian coercion, military rule, torture, the Leviathan state, labor and brotherhood, wanton slaughter for the benefit of human “profit and…
The Spirit of America: The 13th Amendment
I must admit to an utter ignorance of the depths of duplicity written into the United States legal codes. I might have once thought myself an astute cynic of the “law” as I have long…
Part II–Why This American Life On Animal Sacrifice is Great and Good
Perhaps, because you love visiting this vanity project, you recall I praised to the skies this episode of This American Life, #480: Animal Sacrifice, from November 30, 2012. (Part I–This American Life On Animal Sacrifice)…
The Whole Pieces of Modernist Poetry
Stevens places a jar in Tennessee and Williams breaks a bottle and places it “between walls.” I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround…
Personality Perplex
So much these days about the brain “acting” in priority to “thought” (self-reflection?) that I wanted to again assert the prescience of the 19th century as regards our current scientific moment. Morse Peckham on Browning:…