Monday, April 15, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/01/reviews/001001.01kermodt.html Review of this fascinating essay by Frank Kermode, with a link to the first chapter. A really interesting book that I need to re-read. I read most of it a couple weeks ago, then was just thinking of it when a female Rabbi on Six Feet Under quoted the Talmud, saying "one day in this life is better than eternity in the next world," or some such. I'm sure I got that wrong. 10:35:26 PM     The Bush Doctrine, R.I.P.. As a statement of principle set forth by an American chief executive, the now defunct Bush Doctrine may have had a shelf life even shorter than Kenny Boy's Enron code of ethics. By Frank Rich. [New York Times: Opinion] 10:31:00 PM     "which "monty python and the holy grail" character are you?" [Daypop Top 40] 10:28:21 PM     'Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics': Supernatural Selection. 10:23:40 PM     An Insatiably Curious Observer Looks Back on a Life in Evolution. Ernst Mayr, emeritus professor of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and one of the greatest living experts on Darwinism, talks about "What Evolution Is." By Claudia Dreifus. [New York Times: Books] 9:10:28 PM     Of Early Writing and a King of Legend. Egyptologists from Yale have discovered what scientists think is the earliest writing, perhaps earlier than Sumerian writing. By John Noble Wilford. [New York Times: Science] 9:09:32 PM

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