Rights and Freedom
May 19, 2022
I was listening to a podcast episode of the Ezra Klein show the other day, where he interviews Patrick Deneen. Patrick Deneen is a right-wing
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Psalm 106 musings
May 17, 2022
This psalm, one of the longer, starts with the injunction to Praise the Lord for his goodness. The Psalmist then declares the mighty acts of
GoodReads
May 14, 2022
I have been seeing the site GoodReads pop up frequently. Back in February I checked it out and liked it, so I signed up and
The Romanoffs- Expectation episode
May 3, 2022
I have been watching a show on Prime called the Romanoffs. Each of the episodes concerns some aspect of one of their supposed descendants in
Il Piacere- Gabriele D’Anunzio (1889)
April 30, 2022
“La sensibilità de’ suoi nervi era così acuta che ogni minima sensazione a lui data dalle cose esteriori pareva una ferita profonda. Egli aveva tutto
Shame Culture vs Guilt Culture
April 25, 2022
I am reading the Iliad right now. The intro discusses the difference between an honor/shame culture and a guilt culture. The standard Greek culture was
Causes and Mitigating Effects in Complex Systems
April 21, 2022
Based on a snippet of a conversation in a podcast I had been listening to this morning, I was thinking today about predictions based on
Haggling
March 24, 2022
So I hate haggling. Some people love it. They seem to enjoy going in and seeing if they can get a better price for the
More realizations
March 23, 2022
Well, maybe not realizations specifically. I was aware when I put the last post up that it might come off as kind of whiny or
Realizations
March 21, 2022
Over the last few months I’ve come to several realizations about myself. Hopefully these lead to some changes. The first realization is that I’m just
