The American Ethos

From a true Patriot:
I wouldn’t die for my country, but I’d kill for it.
The most succinct expression of the contemporary American ethos I’ve heard in some while. This from an ardent defender of the nation-state’s continued primacy, no less: a chum who wished to remain anonymous lest his aspiration to find himself one day in [...]

The Best Class Evaluation I’ve Read Today

One purpose of this blog – I, with all the power vested in me by the triumvirate of WordPress, the United States Constitution, and a group of overly zealous folks who wish they’d been born in 1755 that call themselves the ACLU, have decided – is to serve as a cache of astounding (for their [...]

On truth and farcehood in a vaguely moral sense

This blog isn’t about anything in particular. In fact, it’s resolutely purposeless – doggedly so – in order to reflect and inflect the hyperactive aimlessness of its author(s). A thought experiment for clarity: take a domesticated sloth, load it up with amphetamines (any serious stimulant will do), and plop it down in an advanced-undergraduate seminar [...]