February 8, 2010

Aristotle is much more an anthropologist or sociologist than he is a philosopher, especially when it comes to ethics and politics. He isn’t terribly interested in finding the good outside of what is done, but through what is done, what is practiced.

February 8, 2010

Philosophers ought to be read as if they are novelists: if you’re bored by the world they’re creating, they suck, just as does a novelist who puts you to sleep.

February 8, 2010

Now this silly talk about P. Manning being the “best quarterback ever” can end. Even had they won yesterday, he is scarcely the best quarterback of his era, much less ever; I can’t speak about pre-70s football, but I can say that the best quaterback of the modern era was, and is, J. Montana. This is hardly even debatable. Elway? Hardly — there’s a reason he had to lead so many comebacks. Warner? Perhaps for a few games, but not even close for a career. Bradshaw? Very good, but not very great. Farve? Choke artist. Marino? Nary a ring. Kelly? Lost, rather than won, four Super Bowls. Folks don’t want to admit that Joe was the best, for whatever reason — probably because he wasn’t spectacular, either in how he played or in his physical gifts. Yet he won. And won and won and won.

February 7, 2010

Hmmm. The Saints beat the Colts. It would not be surprising if tears were being shed in San Diego tonight.

February 7, 2010

Roger Craig belongs in the Hall of Fame.

February 6, 2010

It was odd to see The Edge deliver a relatively traditional solo on the MTV European Music Awards.

February 6, 2010

Kurt lied,
for he had a gun.

January 19, 2010

Fragments of two odd conversations overheard in the coffee shop follow. “CW” is short for “College-Aged Young Woman”; names are all made up; these were two separate, non-overlapping groups on subsequent days.

Conversation 1

CW #1: And he slept with her?
CW #2: After he slept with me. First he slept with Mary.
CW #3: Oh yeah.
CW #2: I’m not going to do anything much for Christmas.

Conversation 2

[After a long discussion of work and boyfriends]
CW #1: Then there was The Conversation.
CW #2: Yes! The Conversation.
CW #3: The Conversation?
CW #2: I never told you about The Conversation?
CW #1: You have to tell her about The Conversation!
CW #2: OK. You know my Mom, right?
CW #3: Yes.
CW #2: The other week she and my Dad sit my down in the living room, and Mom was almost crying, and she said to me, “We know you’re a lesbian…”
CW #3: What?
CW #2: Yeah. She told me they knew I was a lesbian. Then Dad was all upset and asked me how I could have kept this from them.
CW #1: [to CW #3] They said they knew that she and you were lesbians together.
CW #3: What? Seriously?
CW #2: I know. I told them that I wasn’t, and that it wasn’t any business of theirs at all. I just can’t believe my Mom.
CW #1: Isn’t that wild?
CW #3: [laughs] Wow.

January 19, 2010

Zeppelin is not given enough credit for making some awfully fun music.

January 12, 2010

If you hear the word “insiders” used in an ad, run.