I may have been too condescending in my recent praise of the Hollywood tabloid show TMZ, which just minutes ago performed a valuable public service (not so unlike the one performed by my old boss, John Stossel, on his special Freeloaders) by pointing out that panhandlers are often well-compensated con artists, preying upon the arrogant […]
Every conservative faction has its reasons for being less than fully satisfied with McCain, but we’d do well to get our complaints out of our systems now and, however glumly, vote for him against the Democrat in November.
He at least recognizes the problem of excessive government spending — the core issue from my […]
Michael Novak recently wrote an article offering a taxonomy of quasi-atheists, pseudo-atheists, and nihilists-about-everything who sometimes get lumped under the banner of “atheism,” their differences supposedly indicating that the whole enterprise is doomed to contradictions and hypocrisy, which is a bit like saying that since some conservatives care about immigration and some don’t, all conservatism […]
During that debate featuring Christopher Hitchens that I went to a few weeks ago, about the existence of God, he mentioned in passing that two writers (a British journalist and a Polish/American humorist) had an amusingly succinct debate on the concept of “the Chosen People” that went something like this:
How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews
To which […]
For me, today is February 15, 2008, and the precise midpoint of my “Month Without God” is marked by hearing a lunchtime speech by Father Richard Neuhaus — no coincidence, some of you are probably smugly thinking — but for you, gentle reader, it’s early 1996, and the Retro-Journal offers you a series […]
Valentine’s Day or not, here’s something to love.
Just one of four major nerd films coming in May (Fridays that month bringing Iron Man, Speed Racer, Prince Caspian, and this).
What could top that? Only the first eight days of May 2009, currently scheduled to bring Wolverine, Watchmen, and J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek.
I’m thinking see ’em all […]
I decided to turn February into a “Month Without God” largely because four books dealing with God or godlessness all came my way at about the same time (the fact that I’ll also hear Father Richard Neuhaus of First Things magazine speak tomorrow and might even end up, for the first time in my life, […]
To compensate for the preceding three days of Lovecraft, some highbrow-type literary notes:
•I saw Janice Erlbaum read last night, and she was good, as always. She also preceded the actual reading from her new book, Have You Found Her, with a few “hai-poo,” short poems in a quasi-haiku form invented by a friend of […]
Since Lovecraft, who I blogged about for the past two days and will finish with today, had such a distinctive style — depicting a universe in which no familiar cosmology applies and hideous, tentacled alien gods rule a heartless dark universe — he is, of course, easy to parody, with things like:
•an imagined speech showing […]
I’m pleased to see that today marks the release of the new book by Janice “Girlbomb” Erlbaum, whose previous book was my May 2007 Book Selection. That earlier book recounted her harrowing experiences as a teen runaway and shelter resident, and the new one, Have You Found Her, recounts her experiences as […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (Third of Four): “The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Blood-Curdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre”
Lovecraft, despite writing of all sorts of eldritch, supernatural monstrosities from other, dark dimensions that drive men mad and haunt their nightmares with visions of terrible power (indeed, despite being the Poe-influenced inspiration for half […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (Two of Four), February 2008: The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens by Vox Day
Vox Day (Christian, conservative columnist, videogame designer, electronica composer) is in agreement with me on one thing, and that is that in some sense there isn’t much to say about […]
Tomorrow I hope to post my review of The Irrational Atheist, a book that responds to the recent wave of “New Atheist” arguments from people like Michel Onfray (whose Atheist Manifesto I reviewed yesterday) and Christopher Hitchens (who I’ve seen debate twice in recent months). Today, though, a review, as it were, of the […]
I heard from Andrea and Howard Rich’s employee Chris Whitten that correspondent John Stossel (whose 1989 20/20 segment about deregulation called “Relaxing the Rules” had helped confirm my coalescing libertarian views) had shown up at one of Victor Niederhoffer’s monthly “Junto” political discussion meetings and said he was looking for new staffers to work for […]
Disturbing as the tabloid show TMZ is, I sometimes see its final minutes before Simpsons reruns, so I know that tattoo-artist reality show star Kat Von D. (her real, though abbreviated — and German — name, apparently) appears to have sent an autographed photo of herself to a hated underling after firing him, autographing it […]
