As the Worm Turns

If I do decide to start blogging, I’ll have to do something about the name. My original plan involved writing about analytic philosophy and bicycles — ‘cos that’s what I’m studying and what I used to ride. The biking is reflected in the title and the (now gone) banner jpeg.
But this was all before I […]

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Tenure is a special thing for everyone involved in academics. It’s a reminder of the power and importance of the role of professors and teachers in society, and of the traditions that uphold that role.
So it’s reasonable to try to protect the institution of tenure from outside attacks by dangerous fools.
But what’s not reasonable is […]

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This has been getting some attention, which is good because Martha Nussbaum kicks ass. She’s one of my favorites. Perhaps a wee bit of a crush, even.
It’s important to keep in mind that the clash between religion and democracy is unique wherever it happens; there is no single globalized conflict with multiple local instances. What’s […]

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Internet Explorer.
Look, if everyone in the world used Firefox (or Safari for the Mac) life would be easy and happy. But for some odd reason — and one which acts as a counterexample to Hayek’s belief in markets appropriately distributing goods — most people use Internet Explorer. Even though it’s evil. As is everything from […]

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Here’s my brief, contrarian question: are we, as a representative democracy, well-served by allowing just anyone to blog about anything they want?
Take the (mal-named) War on Terror: to win this war we need — as opposed to a conventional war where winning just means killing more of them than they kill of us — to […]

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…and yet the world still turns.

What a silly way to fall from grace: a scandal that should have been easily avoided, but because it taps into deep-seated dislike of his management style he gets no benefit of the doubt.
Considering how much we’re all supposed to hate Wolfowitz — because Michael Moore and the DailyKos […]

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One more reason not to blog: too much time fiddling with minutia. Previewing this pretend blog on my own, person MacBook and the blog looks fine. But when I use an old Windows machine with a version of Internet Explorer just desperate for an update — I have posts with different font sizes. The Jerry […]

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I’m still trying to come up with reasons to decide — definitively — whether to blog or not to blog. Today’s reason: there just too much relentless churn in the damn internet to try to keep up with everything.
It’s one thing to just try to keep up with the news, but to try […]

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Tallahassee is famous for many things:

Strip malls.
A phallic state capitol.
Being the mystic nexus for the various characters on Lost.
A sainted football coach, immortalized in stained glass.

But if there’s a fifth thing Tallahassee is famous for, it’s abysmal traffic. Todays whopper:
At the intersection of Mission and Hartsfield we had two cars pointed north at the red […]

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On the one hand, we have Andrew Sullivan who damns Falwell with silence:
Since I can think of nothing good to say about him, I’ll say nothing. And pray for the repose of his soul.
On the other hand we have Falwell taken to task for his crimes by Timothy Sandefur at Positive Liberty:
Jerry Falwell was […]

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