Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Fedegra!

Posted by Rob on September 26th, 2008

From the good folks over at Sinfest:

McCain: Blurting Out Random Crap

Posted by Rob on September 26th, 2008

Too much happening right now to write about with any justice. The campaigns. Banks failing. A freakin’ gigantic obscenely huge bailout package being negotiated right now on Capitol Hill to avoid the imminent and complete collapse of our entire financial system. Sarah Palin bumbling around a Katie Couric interview, only proving […]

Biden and Palin

Posted by Rob on August 29th, 2008

In case you haven’t heard yet, John McCain just picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate - following Obama’s example of choosing a VP who completely negates his own core argument for being elected.
I swear, this election is becoming more a reality TV show by the second.

When I read that Obama had picked […]

Fact From Myth, Meaning From Ambivalence

Posted by Rob on August 15th, 2008

In most of Western civilization, we’ve elevated reductionism and ambivalence to the status of state religion. We write off cultural myth as merely fanciful storytelling (or worse, literal truth); reduce vital political debates to the competitive give-and-take of a football game; entertain the idea that formal education is little more than cultural repression; even […]

Storm Warning - The Inevitability Of Math

Posted by Rob on August 23rd, 2007

Once upon a time, there was young woman named Katrina. She didn’t have much to her name, was just getting started in life, and arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida in the late summer of 2005 with a slight touch of attitude but otherwise unremarkably.
Katrina’s arrival in West Palm Beach was noted by some, […]