Friday, May 30, 2008

Kos reconsiders caucuses

One thing I like about Kos is that he's willing to reconsider his biases when his biases conflict with hard reality. Case in point.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Beautiful Life, by Gui Boratto

QOTD

We are a nation that sees images of Jesus on toast.

Hunter strikes again. I love his essays.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Dispatch

I often think of troubadours (cf.
cavalier poets), their metrical rhymes,
their passions (n.: the sufferings of a
martyr). They too wanted love—but burning
in the timbers of their desire was a
hope, that love would lift them above the mun-
dane and ordinary, that through love they
would become more like the gods—more alive.
Think, my friend, on how ordinary and
extraordinary love is—pause—then, breathe.

Your friend (and troubadour, of sorts)—s(d)h

In the religion of capitalism, everything must be monetized in order to have value.

A case in point: ADHD can cost adults 20 or more workdays a year .