Monthly Archives: April 2024

Slow, I Know

April 27, 2024 – 5:21 pm

I must apologize for not writing much these past few weeks; we’ve had personal matters to attend to, and have had to travel back and forth between home (the far end of Cape Cod) and New York several times (300 miles of driving each way). There’s a lot I want to write about when I […]

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The Octave Of Intelligence

April 20, 2024 – 4:52 pm

With a hat-tip to Charles Murray on X: The Seven Tribes of Intellect. (One has to wonder: what must it have been like to be John von Neumann?)

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Blatant Discrimination!

April 20, 2024 – 1:18 pm

… and rightly so. We should be pushing back as forcefully as we can against this: we should be creating a climate in which whatever demonic influence corrupted this poor woman into such hideous self-mutilation can no longer gain a foothold on weak minds and vulnerable souls. I have no idea why she is unable […]

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Daniel Dennett, 1942-2024

April 19, 2024 – 5:15 pm

I note with sadness the death of Daniel Dennett — who, whether you agreed with him or not (I did some of each over the years), was a brilliant thinker, a tremendously gifted writer, and a man of insatiable curiosity and outsized personality. In five different areas — philosophy of mind, free will, scientific materialism, […]

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Nothing Much Happening

April 18, 2024 – 11:10 pm

Well, actually there’s rather a lot happening — among other things, Israel attacking Iran (on Ali Khameni’s birthday), jurors seated in the unbelievably outrageous show-trial against Donald Trump, the death of Dickey Betts, and the impending arrival of trillions of zombie cicadas. But I thought I’d just post this instead: Do you think he slept […]

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Service Notice

April 16, 2024 – 12:08 pm

We’re in NYC for a couple of days, where my lovely wife is having surgery for one of those damned basal-cell carcinomas that seem to afflict so many people these days. Back soon.

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Experts Stunned As Pollack Turns 68

April 13, 2024 – 3:29 pm

In a development that has medical and longevity experts scratching their heads, the recording/mixing engineer, former martial-arts instructor, acidulous opinionator, and bibulous curmudgeon Malcolm Pollack celebrated his 68th birthday on April 13th. Asked to comment, one leading expert said that the news has “made us wonder if we have to re-examine some of our most […]

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Let’s Go!

April 8, 2024 – 8:25 pm

Fifty years ago, I lived with some friends in a rented farmhouse on Cider Mill Road, in East Amwell Township, New Jersey. It’s still mostly farmland out there. I was looking at the old place on Google Earth just now and saw this, just a mile or so away. (Click to enlarge.) Warmed my heart.

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Still Here!

April 8, 2024 – 6:44 pm

Well, the Eclipse has come and gone, and as far as I can make out, there’s no sign of either the Rapture or the Apocalypse. (I realize such things might take some extra time to reach us here in the Outer Cape, but even on social media things just seem to be blaring away as […]

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On “Trumper”

April 4, 2024 – 1:42 pm

The political philosopher Carl Schmitt wrote: Let us assume that in the realm of morality the final distinctions are between good and evil, in aesthetics beautiful and ugly, in economics profitable and unprofitable. The question then is whether there is also a special distinction which can serve as a simple criterion of the political and […]

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Pwned!

April 4, 2024 – 12:03 am

This is all over social media today: Richard Dawkins, one of the “Four Horsemen” of New Atheism (along with Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens) and author, in 2006, of The God Delusion has now admitted that he likes Christendom, and suddenly sees it as a thing to be promoted and defended. […]

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From The Dnieper To De Nile

April 3, 2024 – 4:56 pm

Writing about Ukraine at the Asia Times, David Goldman — the analyst formerly known as “Spengler” — commented last week on the desperate strategic fantasy that continues to hold the GAE and NATO (but I repeat myself) under its spell. Goldman is a very smart guy, one of the few global-strategic-assessment pundits actually worth paying […]

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