The title of this blog refers to the events of four days past. This year Monday January 20 was also Inauguration Day, which stole the spotlight from the day which should have been solely devoted to an American hero,Martin Luther King Jr. Instead, that martyred champion of human rights had ...
” meaning those irreducible to logic and unequivocal meaning, Hans Blumenberg (Paradigms for a Metaphorlogy, trans. with an afterword by Robert Savage (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016), 5) observes that “They have a history in a more radical sense than concepts, for the historical tr...
It’s been 45 years since John Lennon sang that line, yet it’s an idea that continues to speak to an uncomfortable truth. While we all like to think we have some measure of control over how our lives will unfold, our plans are often upended by unknown events and curveballs we couldn...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux
You said that if I didn’t have the answers, I should “lie to make it more interesting.” ButI have always found things most interesting when I didn’t have to lie. That is why I am an atheist. Admitting ignorance is humbling. It reminds us that as fleeting inhabitants of this vast...
An introductory given: it is impossible, of course, to pretend you don’t know something or haven’t experienced something when you do/you have. Still, what if you tried your best to redesign something as if it hadn’t existed before? As in, you would be designing it for the circumstan...