At the behest of "Bear" Smith, and out of courtesy for your feelings and intellectual capacities, I hereby give and hand down the following message ( Read more... )

I know I haven't posted in roughly a million years, but are any of you still reading livejournal? If so, tell me how you are. I just got a message that made me think about posting again. What say you all?

If my child becomes an epistemic relativist I'm going to ground them until they either stop it or manage to demonstrate that in principle their punishment is wrong.

If we could just do the same thing with Congress we might all be better off.

God do I hate Christmas. If I'm ever Pope I'm moving it to January again.

I'm still pretty achey, but overall I'm ok. No lasting damage. I went to change lanes but had to swing back into my lane because somebody sped up when my tire blew out and I lost control. I hit the guard rail, no lasting damage to me or anyone else, but the car is almost certainly a total loss. I'll probably feel like shit for another day or two ( Read more... )

Instead of going to Philly to make some debating happen, I wound up totaling the car in Western Mass and getting the crap kicked out of me.

It seriously never ends. Fuck.

Anyway, I'm ok. Pray for my family, if you do that sort of thing.

I was away for a while, so while I kind of skimmed livejournal, if there's something specific you want to share, best to do so.

This was going to be a rant about the (mis)treatment of the northeast and New England in the American political system, but I'm tired.

Still alive.

So, I know that I said that getting back to livejournal was on my list of things to do, but that was before my laptop decided to be a motherfucker and crap out. All is fixed, but I spend a fairly large amount of time with only marginal amounts of web access. Sorry about that ( Read more... )

I think the Catholic habit of singing patriotic hymns on Memorial Day weekend and the first reading from Sunday (from Acts 8, the founding of the Church in Samaria, leaving out Simon Magus) form a good basis for talking about something that's been on my mind ( Read more... )