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Montaigne and Our Silliness

William James' stream of consciousness, that fundamental fact of our existence that cannot be stopped (we "think" like we breathe, not like we walk or fish or watch TV . . . thinking cannot be stopped) "explains without moralizing what that wonderful self-observer Montaigne found as the chief

Cracked Me Up

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling The skies around Alpena were incessantly filled with the buzz of fighter jets, presumably coming from the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center. I've been vacationing in the same spot for 48 years and I never recall hearing so much activity, even in the summers leading up

Sunday

I returned from my final vacation of the year. This was our annual excursion [https://thedailyeudemon.com/5631/] to Alpena, Michigan. Northern Michigan is one of the prettiest places on the planet during the summer and, though Alpena doesn't have all the natural beauty of the Lake Michigan

Interesting

H.I.F. Here's President Obama on taxation: > President Barack Obama has blasted American multinationals that move to Ireland to cut their tax bill. > In his toughest comments yet on the subject, he accused big US corporations of trying to play “the system” by “magically becoming

Friday

BYCU (Kinda) Even though I converted in 1991, which, I think, was the height of Mother Angelica's popularity, I never listened to her. Partly, it's because I rarely watched any TV back then, but partly out of arrogance. Mother Angelica, I vaguely felt, was for the

Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Fallon

Edward Snowden is back with yet another spying scandal. In a new interview, Snowden revealed that NSA employees regularly pass around nude pictures of people they spy on. It got even weirder when German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "So, vat do you think?"

Tuesday

Kontent from the Kindle I was pleased to see an Oscar Wilde crack the Top 25 of most-highlighted passages on Kindle [https://kindle.amazon.com/most_popular]. Here's the passage: "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my

Monday

From the Notebooks “Our lives as philosophers cannot be radically divorced from what we do when we are not doing philosophy.” Gerard Casey. Indeed, I have heard the same thing said about theologians: theologians must be saints. Nassim Taleb makes a similar point in Antifragile when he writes, “Never listen