I haven't updated in awhile.

Suffice it to say it's been a weird couple of months.

Check out this excerpt from an interview with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ( Read more... )

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

A quote attributed to psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel, who was apparently a friend of Freud, in The Catcher in the Rye.

God as Logos, Allah as Will ( Read more... )

The following quotes are taken from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward, which I finally finished over the summer ( Read more... )

This Congressman Foley stuff is ridiculous.

I don't see myself supporting today's Democrats anytime soon; nevertheless, all the scandals of late indicate that Republicans deserve whatever happens in November.

Fiza returns to Tulane tomorrow afternoon! Life is glorious. Seldom has any surprise been so pleasant.

The absence of the epithet is one of the most lamentable characteristics of this age. To be sure, titles like "The Great" are not unfamiliar to us, but, by and large, the very definition of epithet is likely to elude most people. This is most unfortunate. How much cooler would we be if epithets came back? The Greeks were awesome at it; you had ( Read more... )

Dr. Cooley asked today in poetry writing if there can be a friendship without lying.

Of course, one's answer could be contingent upon one's definition of a lie (i.e. is omitting information lying, etc.) and of friendship, but I think it's a most compelling question.

Can there be lying in friendship?

The reaction of the Muslim community and the media in general to the pope's recent lecture is one of the most disturbing yet unsurprising things I have ever witnessed. Benedict has consistently been misunderstood and distorted; if people actually read what he wrote, there would be no problem, or the problems would be in their proper place at least ( Read more... )