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library, meanwhile
This Hat is My Hat
There is apparently some controversy brewing over at The Whities. Some folks are upset that a hat marketer/retailer is peddling lids featuring a caricature of a little bitty white dude rather than hideously offensive images of Native Americans. It is worth mentioning that Chief Wahoo, the beloved mascot of the Cleveland Indians baseball club, and […]
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journal, library, politics
wm f. buckley, jr., rip
Blame him and Goldwater, but not for all of it. In the era of the sign and signified, those men of thought and letters have been eclipsed truly by Reagan’s icon. Both Goldwater and Buckley had good intentions, and strove for something like virtuous lives, as they saw them. Buckley’s contributed much to English and […]
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journal, library, meanwhile, teaching
black swans & other matters
02.14.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe Black Swan’s author may have at last given postmodernism something to hang its hat on. In particular, Taleb puts forth the notion that narrative-in-science, i.e., bell curves, misunderstood probability theory, confusing no-evidence and evidence-of-no, etc., lead to mass delusions regarding risk and leave us all with great big fat blind spots that cause us […]
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journal, library
xmas update
Everyone got too much. An orgy of paper and refined white sugar. On the way to Las Vegas, I finished reading His Dark Materials. The press has made much ballyhoo about the author’s being an atheist. The book is not atheistic; it’s heretical. There’s a big difference. The author is what he is, the book […]
