Section 4: Heidegger’s Humanism: Heidegger, like Nietzsche before him, was an unbeliever or atheist who could not give up Christian hopes.  According to Gray , and one is wont to believe him, carried along with the author’s enthusiasm and logic, that Heidegger’s terminology is merely new ...

Black 47 (Last One To Die) Bloody, fucking Ulster . Fucking, bloody Baghdad. Where next? One isn't really our problem, yet; one is still our problem. But, there is a relation between violence, sectarian hatred and money. Last night, the entrance to the Massereene army base in Antrim, 16 miles n...

"Out of a sudden / All of a blue"... I'm feeling existential blog o_O I dunno why and I'm starting to worry. I suddenly cared about what everything that's been happening is doing to me - as a person - in a the whole-est sense of the word. 1. I'm a fugitive you know. I drive but my license is expired...

Paul Krugman, Martin Wolff and even Ben Freaking Stein (Half-time brilliant, half-time Bozo) have all weighed in on the stimulus package as not being audacious enough. Well, this is why they are probably right ... The nation is losing jobs so quickly that the government, racing to deal with the cris...

Many years ago when this author was at college he had a wonderful director for his master’s thesis, one Rev Dr. Brian McNamara, S.J .  Brian was an inspiration as he taught me how to read with an extra edge, or, if you prefer with purpose and focus.  He was a wonderful scholar to whom I ...

Tehching Hsieh Photo by Chester Higgins Jr. (Image from The New York Times ) I learned of Tehching Hsieh in yesterday's International Herald Tribune, but a fuller version of the article appeared several days ago (February 25, 2009) in the original source, The New York Times. Titled "A Caged Man Brea...

Jaysus, Mary and Joseph, don't they look like prison guards, or cops? Funky Céilí One of my O'Blogo brothers sent me this plug and bit of insight from Helen Rittlemeyer of The Cigarette Smoking Blog and  thought my response needed to be posted. I'm interested in the book, since I remembe...

Still waiting for your metaphorical flying car? Author and disciplined futurist Charles Stross wants a few words with you: Assuming we avoid a systemic collapse, there'll probably be a moon base, by and by. Whether it's American, Chinese, Indian, or Indonesian is anybody's guess, and probably doesn'...

"Do we need to actually clarify that there's nothing like a psychic; what are we, fucking two?" "Oh, that's a good point. Let me think for a bit...oh, yeah, it's not, it's fucking shit!" Thanks, Ed... Thanks, BBC... Delectable, inflatable you...Inflatable You - Tim Minchin...

The Catholic God, if the bastard exists, really doesn't deserve a lot of the people who have served him. Most of the time in this enlightened age, we focus on the bigoted dipshits, the deviants, the fanatics. But, every now and then, we need to face the fact that some people -- Mother Teresa, Ig...