William Logan At The New Criterion: ‘Pound’s Metro’
Full piece here. Logan takes a look at one of the most important modern poems: In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough. –Ezra Pound Logan:...
View Article‘Grabby’ Aliens, A Beautiful Funnel Of Air & A Few Past Links
I tend to be skeptical of guys who, upon their deaths, freeze their heads into perpetuity. Probabilistically, though, I suppose it could be a bet worth taking. We could use more outside-the-box...
View ArticleHow Close Is Too Close?-A Few Links On The 2013 El Reno Tornado
Dan Robinson was the guy heading south, then rapidly east, in the hopes of staying on a parallel northward track to the May 31st, 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado. I can appreciate a man driving towards...
View ArticleGood Ol’ Skepticism-A Link To Michael Crichton On The Environment & Some Past...
The below ideas surely manifest themselves within politics. Yet, the goal should lie in demonstrating that many unfounded truth and knowledge claims, forged into belief, and acted upon righteously,...
View ArticleCharles Murray & Lawrence Krauss Have A Discussion
Dear Reader, thanks for coming along. A few passing thoughts while viewing the video: Whichever American cognitive elite is being formed, partially out of raw IQ and hard work, partially out of...
View ArticleRepost-Via The New Criterion: ‘The Intolerable Dream’-Don Quixote, The Lone...
Full piece here. Of some interest: ‘Having read so many chivalric epics that his brains have “dried up,” the hero decides that he has been called to revive chivalry and restore the Golden Age in this...
View ArticleNot Really Science, Kinda Like A Religion-Some Eco-Links & A Discussion Of...
First, from Darwinian Conservatism: On the Question of Religion and Ethics, Adam Smith Was the Last Esoteric Writer: ‘…”yes, a God-like being plays a central role in Smith’s ethics.” In making that...
View ArticleSome Links To The Rolling Fork, MS Tornado-Life & Death
R.I.P. Some tragedies happen because of a lack of knowledge, and a lack of knowledge distribution when it is matters most. There were people sitting in homes and businesses in Rolling Fork MS, who...
View ArticleUnpopular Opinions-Sunday Edition
The most morally righteous (not necessarily right) can be found most vocally pushing ‘Climate Justice’. The conflict between Conceptions of (S)cience as a tool of the ‘oppressor’, AND as intellectual...
View ArticleRomantic Urbanism And Ironic Suburbanism-There’s Also Something Going On With...
Romantic Urbanism seems to, well, inspire Romantic conceptions of a place. ‘Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated...
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