It’s the last day of September, and October brings not only the debate I’m hosting about the Ivy League but my reminiscences on this blog about Brown — the start of a recap of my past twenty years, with an emphasis on philosophy and politics. So it’s worth first taking at least a brief […]
I don’t know whether our upcoming debate about the merits of the Ivy League will convince anyone those schools are useless (I’m certainly grateful my parents paid for my Brown education) — but there are alternative sources of knowledge.
I mentioned a while back that I was used as a “shout-out” (like a “lifeline” on Who […]
With one of the eight Ivy League schools in the news this week for having Iranian president Ahmadinejad speak there, now is the perfect time to have a debater who graduated from Columbia defend the proposition that the Ivy League is superior against a detractor who says the League is a big, pretentious waste of […]
(This isn’t comic book news, mind you — it’s movie news.)
Batman is having a rough time, according to the movie-news site DarkHorizons:
–Hong Kong, the one location outside Gotham where parts of Batman: Dark Knight take place, is being slower to grant filming permits to the filmmakers than expected (perhaps they heard about someone dying recently […]
Since I wrote about my favorite movies in the last entry, I should tip my hat to literacy by noting that I stumbled across this list, inspired by a whole book on the topic, of what are (arguably) the 100 most influential books of all time. It’s both humbling and inspiring.
(You could do far worse […]
I mentioned in my last entry that Iron Man kicks off next year’s (very busy) summer-blockbuster season, which reminds me of three other things all going on around that time, all of them in Denver, CO: the Libertarian Party presidential convention (in May), the annual WorldCon of sci-fi and comic book nerds (in early August), […]
My apologies for not blogging for a couple weeks — and for falling behind, as well, on blogrolling those who’ve permanently linked to me (below, right) and linking as well to numerous interesting acquaintances, for which I have at last created a big page of Acquaintances (I haven’t been completely idle).
And NOW I NEED THE […]
The two major video releases of this week were surely Fred Thomspon’s declaration of his presidential candidacy and Osama bin Laden’s declaration of his continued existence and his opposition to global warming and high taxes.
The very same night that we were doing our Debate at Lolita Bar about Islam, bin Laden was unveiling a new […]
I stopped collecting comics about a year ago, but that medium did a great deal to shape my brain over the years — from the moral example set by characters like the late Captain America to the rhetorical example set by the narration in Flaming Carrot Comics (which described the eponymous hero as “a dreadnaught […]
A few months ago, around the same time this blog really got rolling, I toured the Scottish nanotech industry (as I will recount in more detail very soon) and found time to visit the Edinburgh grave of Adam Smith while I was at it. Patricia Short, a senior editor at Chemical & Engineering News […]
