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Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Best of 2011 & What 2012 Holds

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

In 2011, just before graduation from Dordt College, I moved from antimoderate.com to this url, naturally losing a big chunk of my readership. From that time until now, I’ve gone (ignoring occasional peaks and troughs) from an average of 10 views a day to an average of 150. Not very big numbers, I admit, but [...]

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[mini-review of mission impossible 4]

Saturday, December 24, 2011

[Gadgets break but Ethan Hunt can still kick ass. Although. He doesn't look as good as he used to without a shirt. Is it just me or is the silly rich guy from India a bit of a racist stereotype? Should I feel guilty that probably whatever fraction of my money Tom Cruise gets might [...]

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Also, for the sake of completeness…

Friday, December 23, 2011

… grades are in for the semester. “A”s all ’round. Guess that answers this question. I really should write the last post in my series on writing that paper about Husserl, huh?

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It’s Up

Friday, December 23, 2011

My guest post at AUFS on the subject of Omensetter’s Luck, that is. Go read it. And if you’ve read the novel, by all means comment: the book deserve discussion, it really does.

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Five Things, Some Relevant and Others Not

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Tomorrow I’ll be posting my comments on William Gass’s Omensetter’s Luck, over at AUFS. I’ll link, of course. As the winter break begins, I’ve been trying to re-introduce fiction writing into my routine. It’s something I lost over the semester, in the general scramble to remake myself from an undergraduate- to a graduate-level scholar. But [...]

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[on virtue-vice]

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

[Like a sphere, virtue-vice may be halved from any direction depending on who you are, what you are you doing, who you are cutting. The patriotic and the traitorous. The pious and the blasphemous. The slavish and the courageous. The maternal and the rebellious. The liberal and the totalitarian. We must adapt to the cut [...]

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Additionally, Christopher Hitchens

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Although I hold what I said about Hitchens no less firmly than I did an hour ago, having read this attempt to moderate the idealizations, I have to say that I pretty much agree with everything in it. Yes, Hitchens was remarkably conceptually inept, given to emotional arguments and false claims to the moral highground [...]

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