14 Funny Passages from David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster
which means that some staff photographer came in and popped a flash in the face of a traumatized kid at prayer.
Eric Scheske
Get Ready to Re-Write History
The Don is declassifying. The Elon is dismantling. The Establishment is defecating.
Can America handle the truth?
We think we’re going to learn who shot JFK, but we better be prepared to learn that Oswald shot from the jealous apex of an Oswald-JFK-Marilyn Monroe love triangle. And Marilyn was
Shellenberger on Carlson
You used to be able to draw a line across California. South of Santa Cruz, where those Lost Boys hung out, things started to stink of something right-wing. By the time you hit Orange County, you were in Oklahoma. San Francisco was Peter Coyote and sandal-wearing freaks. Los Angeles was
The Hemispheres in the Garden
I lost a lot of money in the 2008-2009 crisis. I was doing alright but lawyers throughout Michigan were shuttering their practices. I knew it could become difficult to sustain my homemaker wife and seven young children.
An acquaintance asked me if I’d ever tried square-foot gardening. I hadn’
The Five Parts of Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis
Part I
What is the Tao? The Tao, also called “the act of existence (actus essendi),” “the first principle of Zen,” and the region on the other side of Aldous Huxley’s doors of perception, is the nameless reality that is logically, conceptually, and in reality prior to everything else.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce, the “Sleeping Prophet” (1877-1945), was a peculiar figure, a lanky Kentuckian who slipped into some kind of trance-like stupor and spouted answers to life’s mysteries like a backwoods oracle.
Over 14,000 of his mutterings were scribbled down by diligent stenographers, responses to questions from 6,000
Why the Left Hemisphere is Ineluctably Drawn to Abstractions
The left hemisphere’s primary goal is to allow its host to survive. Practical considerations drive the left hemisphere.
You might think this means the left hemisphere isn’t much interested in abstractions or idealized notions. Such things, at first glance, aren’t practical. But the thing is, abstractions are
Introducing Blaise Pascal: The First Anti-Modern
If we’re going to battle against modernity, we need to recognize our champions. Pascal might have been the first.
Something Tells Me I’d Really Enjoy the Private Letters of Two Men I Didn’t Even Know Existed
It helps to be aware of one’s ignorance.
That’s one reason I like to read Joseph Epstein, who wrote a delightful essay for the current issue of the new Catholic journal, The Lamp that brought my level of awareness to the brim.
The topic?
The letters of George
Left Hemisphere Attack on Small Business?
Jeffrey Tucker at Zero Hedge (via Epoch Times)