Saturday, June 18, 2005

Zen and the Art of Neoconservatism. From Kevin Carson's neocon lexicon/guide to inner peace:Moral Relativism. Aka historicism. The denial of any unified, objective standard of value. The diametric opposite of Moral Equivalence (q.v.). Moral Equivalence. Judgment of the United States government by the same unified, objective standard of value as the governments of other countries. The diametric opposite of Moral Relativism (q.v.). Moral Clarity. The Zen-like state of mind from which it is possible accuse the same... [Antiwar.com Blog] It seems like a joke, but there really are people who think like that! 4:25:23 PM    comment () DUMMIES ‘R US. Link: A recent Gallup survey shows that just about three in four Americans hold some paranormal belief -- in at least one of the following: extra sensory perception (ESP), haunted houses, ghosts, mental telepathy, clairvoyance, astrology, communicating with the dead, witches, reincarnation, and channeling. There are no significant differences in belief by age, gender, education, or [...] [The Light Of Reason] More evidence that the Age of Enlightenment has ended. 3:47:56 PM    comment () “KILL EVERY ONE OF THEM…” VERSUS THE BEAUTY OF LIFE. A sergeant writes about an event in 2003 in the suburbs of Baghdad: "It was still dark. I dressed in that darkness. When I was ready I grabbed an MRE (meal ready to eat) and got in the truck. The targets were three houses where RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) attacks had come from a few days [...] [The Light Of Reason] 3:38:33 PM    comment () The hard drive in the PowerMac G4 I use for scanning abruptly lost its partition map just when I had some fairly important scanning to do. As a result I'm temporarily forced to scan using an OS X system. I continue to be amazed by how unfriendly OS X is. It can't even remember the folder you last saved to! 12:01:14 PM    comment ()

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