The Great Chain of Being — A Poem in Progress
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Perhaps it's crass to write a poem out in the open and explain it as I go. But that's what I'm going to do. Theme: The Great Chain of Being. Nothing is invisible -- We have our ways of casing the world: Tripods ...
Poetry Friday: Alexander Pope and The Great Chain of Being
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Cross-posted to Wellreadchild.com. The current issue of Lapham's Quarterly examines the theme of Nature, and includes this excerpt from Pope's Essay on Man: VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive ...
Nader and Ferraro: Left-Wing Racism and Right-Wing Feminism
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 1 Comment »Here's a legitimate criticism of the left: its identity politics can be a condescension to those it means to champion. Riddled with anti-racist and anti-sexist taboos on language, its politics doth protest too much. It's quite a spectacle to watch ...
The McEwan Delusion: The Pseudo-Threat of Islamism
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 3 Comments »As a novelist, Ian McEwan is talented to the point of self-caricature: he writes nothing that hasn't been dislocated on the rack of his talent. As the leader of today's "look-at-me-I'm-a-writer!" lolly-pop guild, he would never dream of sentence to ...
The Constitution and Obama’s Dissaopinting Stand on FISA
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »I have never seen the "halo" that others have claimed for Obama (usually his opponents, at the many moments they claim it has just been removed). But since my posts to this blog have been relentlessly pro-Obama, here's my chance ...
Obama and Public Financing — A Response to Stuart Roy
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »My Crossfit friend Stuart writes the following piece, with which I must respectfully disagree. With regards to Obama's "Messianic Image" and the claim that his supporters have "drunk the Koolaid" (or rather "taken shots" of it, far more suitable to the ...
Media Fairness and Hillary
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »Greg Sargent asks whether the media was unfair to Hillary, and goes on to list examples of an extraordinary amount of frivolous, crude, unfair, misleading, outright dishonest, and transparently mendacious media coverage that without question had a major impact on this ...
