February 2009
“Her husband may have been mentally disturbed, not merely a religious zealot.”
– Andrew Sullivan, commenting on this atrocity. Isn’t it telling that it is this difficult to parse the difference between religious conviction and mental illness?
Feb 26th
My Brilliant Career
karenuhoh: topherchris: On the whole comments vs. no comments vs. reblogging discussion, I’d like to propose an alternative: Comments as the main blog posts with no actual posts for them to refer to. Pal, I became a legend in my own mind on just this programme. You’ll be hearing from my imaginary People.  This is the Gawker model, no?
Feb 26th
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“The GOP has passed what amounts to a spending and tax-cutting and borrowing...”
– Andrew Sullivan
Feb 13th
“Doubt as sin. Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared...”
– from Nietzsche’s Daybreak,s. 89, R.J. Hollingdale transl.
Feb 13th
““No one has ever gotten a 15-6 for losing a village in Afghanistan,” he said....”
– Josh Foust, my friend in Afghanistan, dropping some truth bombs
Feb 12th
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Feb 2nd