Or, what I should have said on the last day of my last class: Never stop.  Philosophy is a discipline, and it is imperative that you keep it up, and deepen the discipline.  Otherwise, as the saying goes, your life, unexamined, will not be truly worth living.  Indeed, a life with no philosophy . . . (More)

 (Owed to Xaos) The Olympic Games are apparently coming to Vancouver, and since Seattle - presumably due to its putative moral superiority and boundless smugness - seems to consider itself Canadian, there is some buzz on local TV.  Mostly, there are amateurish spots hyping local athletes who are b . . . (More)

Here is a rigorous analysis of the weighty matter of rock, paper, and scissors.   In a moment of weakness, I allowed myself to consider that perhaps it is ridiculous to break a long silence with something so pointless...  until we ask:  "Pointless" as opposed to what? For those who insist on . . . (More)

  I took my seat on the bus, as bus riders do, and folded up and tucked between the side of my seat and the wall was a Post-It Note®.  I present it without evaluation or correction. 2009: it's 2009 the same old fucking story Fed Poison by our people to Protect a major company Jus . . . (More)

 I am vaguely comforted by the thought that we were all fucked into existence. (Well, most of us anyway.)Was it as good for you as it was for me? Tags: Everything ; Nothing ; Memoirs ; Whatever  . . . (More)

 Our civil libertarians have a lot to complain about, and theirs is a righteous struggle.  But, candidly, there is very little that is forbidden in America.  And yet...There are things that, while not exactly forbidden, are nonetheless very effectively prevented from happening.  There are many . . . (More)

 I wish you all had one neck, and my hands were around it.                - Carl PanzramNews flash!!  This just in!!!!!Barack Obama loves his wife, and his children, and his parents, and America, and God and shit!And also he has children!  They love him back!  Also his wife!And he is in . . . (More)

 It's become the most elephantine of elephants in the living room - and the Lord knows that we have plenty of those, these days.  (Did you know that the American family is held together by money and incest?  Oops.  Move along - nothing to see here.)  In fact, of all the mammals infesting all . . . (More)

 I know exactly what I mean to be doing here, and I have no idea how to do it.  I want to strip all the coating off my skewed view, my experiences, what I have seen of the world and made of it.  This is all one can do with words, after all - or most of what's worth doing.  I am no solipsist . . . (More)