A life in words

  • The Endorsement You’ve All Been Waiting For!

    Endorsements, endorsements, endorsements! Everybody’s getting into the endorsement business these days: Romney just endorsed McCain[1], Oprah’s all for Obama[2], Bill Clinton endorsed Hillary Clinton[3], and my sources tell me even Oscar the Grouch is on the verge of endorsing somebody![4] So what the heck, why not jump into the fray and endorse somebody myself? I’ve…

  • Being Postsuppositional

    My thinking has started along many of these lines before, but I never followed them through to a proper conclusion as this logical/philosophical analysis does. I didn’t read every word (it’s pretty hefty) but what I did read was quite striking.

  • Josh Hansen Profile Picture Mega-Competition 2008! (Updated 1)

    I’ve arrived at the pinnacle of vanity, and now, as a rite of passage, I must hold a profile picture competition. I’ve had some pretty sweet profile pictures in the past, if I do say so myself (and I think I just did.) I know you’ve all been hording pictures of Josh Hansen for ages;…

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883