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Yearly Archives: 2008
The Original Holy Land
November 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pm » Comments (0)
What place do most of us think of when we hear the term "Holy Land"? Perhaps we ought to think of Afghanistan. Let us begin by looking at that highly influential proto-western ...more »My College Sweethearts
November 15th, 2008 at 4:16 pm » Comments (2)
It suddenly occurs to me that I wrote my first love poem 26 years ago. I wrote it in Apple ][ BASIC. I just had to tell her how fine ...more »The Great Peace of the Magi
November 13th, 2008 at 10:31 am » Comments (0)
Plutarch, in his treatise on Isis and Osiris, describes the great peace that the Magi foretold: But the time appointed by fate is coming, ... when the earth becoming plain and ...more »The Source
November 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm » Comments (0)
The theme, or motto, of this blog has its source in an essay of Plutarch entitled "On Listening to Lectures." Here's a translation of Plutarch's actual words: The correct analogy for ...more »Good, Evil, and Plutarch
November 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am » Comments (0)
Henry David Thoreau, an obscure 19th Century classicist and journalist who earned a reputation as a decent translator of Greek works, once reflected on the profound presence of Evil in ...more »Honorary Faggot
November 9th, 2008 at 3:49 am » Comments (1)
I was terribly nervous the night before election day. I had volunteered to work all day for the No-on-8 campaign. The training had been rather intimidating, and I was afraid ...more »Zarathustra the Yes Man.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:56 pm » Comments (0)
There is perhaps no message more essential to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra than the whole-hearted affirmation of life as an individual experience. I am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, ... into ...more »Evolution Embraced in Dixie
November 5th, 2008 at 5:02 pm » Comments (0)
Cultural evolution will have to suffice for the present. The southern Atlantic seaboard is a remarkable sight to behold this morning. Barack Obama has demonstrated his broad appeal from the outskirts ...more »Bigots Need Your Dollars!
November 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm » Comments (0)
BIGOTS AGAINST LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS need your money! They are registered with the California Secretary of State as proponents of Proposition 8, but as of yet ...more »No. 8 is No on 8
November 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm » Comments (1)
Steve Young remains a class act, and his wife Barbara rocks! Prop 8 R.I.P.! Steve Young's Home Displays 'No On 8' Signs. more »