There’s a school of thought out there that claims that atheists — ie, those who profess an absolute belief in the nonexistence of God — are engaging in a kind of faith every bit as unsubstantiated as the religion they’re trying to debunk. The argument hinges on the notion that, fundamentally, we can’t know how [...]
Matt Taibbi, spiritual heir to Hunter S Thompson and preeminent chronicler of the cynical braindead bullshit that passes for a political process in this country1, is sold:
This dumbed-down, degraded election process of ours has, in spite of itself and to my own extreme astonishment, brilliantly re-energized the American experiment and restored legitimacy to [...]
The first thing you notice about the airport at Anchorage is the taxidermy: stuffed elk heads with glass eyes peer down from the walls; stuffed wolves with bared fangs guard the bottom of escalators; giant stuffed polar bears in glass enclosures rear up on their hindlegs, brandishing three-inch claws. Alaskans clearly love the natural world, [...]
In Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose’s lively and lovely ode to the written word, there’s an entire chapter devoted to the awesomeness of Anton Chekhov. I haven’t read anything by Chekhov myself, but, as soon as I saw this quote, I immediately wanted to:
It is time for writers to admit that nothing [...]
Cringely has a fantastic column up on the story behind the recent executive shakeup at Apple: Tony Fadell — head of the iPod division, and probably the Father of the iPod itself — is out, and Mark Papermaster, erstwhile IBMer, is in.
But the column is really about Steve Jobs, of course, his mind and his [...]
An interesting notion, from Patrick Lee Miller:
Try to imagine Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing to a song of infinite length. Their technique would remain as dazzling as the talent of the resurrected Lou Gehrig, and it is just as tempting to fantasize about them dancing forever as it is to imagine him [...]
Catherine Cheek, my friend and fellow Clarionite, is not only a great writer, but also a pretty amazing artist. So it’s kind of awesome that she’s decided to bend her considerable talents to making little notebook objets d’art for her writer friends.
Which is a sort of roundabout way of saying that I got a package [...]
And now, in the final days, McCain’s last spurious attack: that Obama is unfit to be president because he associates with Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia professor who speaks eloquently for Palestinian rights and Palestinian statehood, and is therefore an anti-semite and a PLO shill and a closet terrorist.
Now, one could point to the fact that [...]
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