David Foster Wallace gave the following thought-provoking commencement speech to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. He said many important things to the graduates, all of which you can read here. I tend to admire those thinkers who can put their finger on elephants in the room--those obvious things…
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I'm in the process of reading Robert Burton's excellent new book: On Being Certain (2008). Burton offers a quote at the beginning of Chapter 3, the chapter being entitled "Conviction isn't a choice." Here's the quote: It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in your head. The accomplishment…
Some really good stuff at DailyKos. Here are some much under-appreciated proposals to actually pay for the bailout. Better yet, these include some proposals to make the people benefiting from the bailout pay for it. Really, does it make any sense to call this a "bailout" when we are accomplishing…
I've read several accounts of McCain's cozy relationship with Charles Keating. And here we are now, deja vu. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBCAaulG-k&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/[/youtube]