the purpose of even those entries is to point to bigger questions, questions that I hope my life story can help illuminate in some way. So I’m going to talk today a little bit about my reasons for deciding to marry. The particular reasons...
As I and my campaign have said repeatedly and consistently, I have not made the decision about whether to request judicial review. Once the recount is done and the record is complete, my attorneys and I will carefully review the evidence in that record and I will make a considere...
‘They come in from the pond to pick up their grain and I delight in watching them.’ As far as I can tell, this is the first time in literature that an animal is honoured not for being beautiful, or loyal, or strong, but for the sheer pleasure you get from seeing another living ...
Elsewhere in The Long Hard Road, Manson’s decadent-bogeyman act is more charming, like when he drolly denies being a Satanist (“It’s simply part of what I believe in, along with Dr. Seuss, Dr. Hook, Nietzsche, and the Bible”) or when he demonstrates a knack for the casually luri...
I am sure you are right to want to focus in on these places– they are where the real work of philosophy gets done (as you note by pointing to Plato in your initial post–Socrates could not stand to let it rest with a shrug and a “very well, I contradict myself. I contain ...
[00:16:00] Jordan Harbinger: You know, it's a bunch of dumb kids like me spend 200 grand on college and then get out and go, "I don't know how to do anything." No offense, of course. [00:16:09] Steven Pinker: "What am I going to do with my degree in French literature...
That’s Friedrich Nietzsche and Marx 101. Replyben says: October 19, 2022 at 8:18 pm The truth is they are a cult of broken people with mental health issues. End of story. Reply Jake Westy says: May 29, 2023 at 5:13 am How true. I have a copy of Kerry Bolton’s “The...
To sum it up: Whenever I encounter a stupid, irrational person I could think to myself how much more awesome I am or how lucky I am, i.e. engage in downward comparisons (indeed, research has shown that those are good for your happiness). To put it succinctly: Replace anger with prid...
The two drugs that I am discussing here provide a number of revealing contrasts from all possible points of view, the first being in the price-hike field. The price of Parnate (tranylcypromine) has for many years been very modest since it has been out-of-patent for ages. But more recent...
“Nietzsche” - I say this when I want to sound like I’ve read stuff 1:19:09 Movement Critic (Rodney Martin) @Luke Ford I had an Israeli IDF friend chastise the hell out of “American” Jews over the Hebrew issue, i.e. “American Jews don’t e...