Saturday, May 7, 2016

Virtue signalling as a tidy explanation

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A great illustration about understanding other people's goals in order to understand their actions. Isn't the logic of fossil fuel...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Expel, excommunicate, curse, and damn Baruch de Spinoza

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From Why Spinoza still matters: At a time of religious zealotry, Spinoza’s fearless defence of intellectual freedom is more timely than ever...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

The only literate inhabitant was elected ‘county reader'

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A very good book review of David Fischer's Albion's Seed , a massive tome that is packed with interesting information. The review i...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Think before you start

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A few years ago I compiled a fairly massive list of common English language idioms, proverbs, maxims, adages and sayings. My thinking was t...

A weakness within their own psychology

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I came across this John Cleese video piece on political correctness. Amen! I especially enjoyed his quotation of his co-author, Robin S...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Taught to the tune of a hick'ry stick

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An old rhyme about learning. From a book discussion forum. School days, school days, Good old Golden Rule days, Reading and Riting and ...

Predictable policy outcomes

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From One Top Taxpayer Moved, and New Jersey Shuddered by Robert Frank. The situation is not as dire as the headline indicates and yet, fro...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Come over and help us

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Scott Alexander reviews Albion's Seed by David Fischer in Book Review: Albion's Seed by Scott Alexander. Alexander points out that...

Exaggerated claims don’t strengthen the case

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Well put. From a review of books to do with Dorothy Parker. Advocates of all stripes are prone to the sin of exaggeration to get attentio...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Bookish Correlations

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I have developed my capacity for self-control by rigorously limiting myself to the number of books I can physically carry out of the store. ...