What Happens When You Do Bad Things To A Streetlight: A Cautionary Tale From 1991

If you’re like me, you like dumping on political correctness (known to the hipster crowd as “PC,” and by hipsters I mean Anderson Cooper).

The day the house fell on the wicked witch of Colorado Springs: Why I think James Dobson is a closet witch (The Dobson Invectives, no. 3)

I do, from time to time, peruse Mr. Dobson’s fine website PluggedIn Online, which is meant as a resource for Christian parents seeking “Christian film reviews” for new music, film, and book releases (and is the object of the final Dobson potshot I’ll be taking, which will be finished, someday!).
There are predictable friends, and likely [...]

Thanks America, for the anxious-avoidant attachment; now securely attach this! Thoughts on Reason’s scuttle from American public life

Are you concerned with the level of dialogue in our country today? Do you shudder when you watch yet another pundit break the record that you saw another talking head set just the previous night for Worst Logical Misstep in History?
Do you like Marshall MacLuhan? How about Neil Postman? Digging Network, are ya?
Find neuroscience intruiging? Altruism? Hopelessly in [...]

What happened to Reason? Bill Moyers/Jon Stewart interview, part IV

Here comes the last installment of the Bill Moyers’ interview of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show. After this, preferably tomorrow, I’ll start us off with a discussion of Al Gore’s latest book, The Assault on Reason, and I hope that that conversation will make sense of my choice to dedicate four posts to these [...]

What happened to Reason? Bill Moyers/Jon Stewart interview, part III

Part three of four in Jon Stewart’s interview on Bill Moyer’s Journal. Among other things, at issue in this clip are the population’s access to those who claim to represent us. Check it out.

What happened to Reason? Bill Moyers/ Jon Stewart, part II

Here is the second part of the interview Jon Stewart did on the Bill Moyers’ Journal program. Sorry for the out-of-synchness of it. It wasn’t me!
In this segment they discuss, among other things, Jon’s great interview with Sen. John McCain, and the general feeling of helplessness and disconnect many Americans feel from the world of American politicians [...]

What happened to Reason? Bill Moyers/ Jon Stewart interview, part I

This is the first in a series (I think 4-part?) of excellent interviews Bill Moyers did with The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. I wanted to post these here before I discussed Al Gore’s new book, The Assault on Reason, which I just finished and have been digesting, and would like to yak about here at [...]

waterboarding double feature!! capt. whitebeard’s tales of the whirlpool, part IV

Believe me, I know the horrors of watery graves. Far too many of me fine mateys have gone down into Davy Jones’ locker and never returned. So, I got more than a little interested last fall when I heard that the American government, at the request of VP Dick Cheney, was hoping to approve various “robust interrogation techniques” [...]

Every story is a ghost: Notes upon finishing Chuck Palahniuk’s “Haunted”

Unlike any blogger worth his salt, I guess I don’t put a lot of stock in immediacy. What I end up writing here usually has been digested and re-digested a few times. Like, for instance, the death of Jerry Falwell, which I’ll get to here when I finally decide what it is I want to say [...]

common women and generic drugs: capt. whitebeard on prescription medication

Ahoy, dogs! This be Capt. Whitebeard again, here to discuss yet another of me fine nautical adventures.
As some of ye may be aware, we pirates live a life that is . . . well, we often find ourselves, being on land, in the company of . . . oh, how should I say say it? [...]