Two interesting posts tonight up at The Ethical Werewolf, Neil Sinhababu’s blog. Up top is a brief post about the difference between good and evil: what makes a person morally good is her intrinsic desire for the good of others. One can be a morally good person (or for that matter, a morally good dog) […]
The latest hit on my recurring Dewey search is this piece by Jonah Goldberg at the National Review Online. Despite his obvious disagreements with pragmatism, Goldberg generally does a good job of portraying the position and the critical areas of disagreement. (In another column he jokes that he is assistant treasurer of “the small club […]
So I turned 30 last week. And around the same time, I’ve started seeing ads and trailers for the movie version of Rent. Now, I was in college in New York City in the summer of ’96, when the show premiered on Broadway. And back then, the show had a policy of reserving the front […]
Why Tuesday? Pattie and I have allowed the city to use our garage as the polling place for our division since last November. It helps make sure our neighbors have a convenient place to vote, so I’m happy to do it – I figure it’s part of our contribution to Get Out the Vote efforts. […]
I have a customized layout over at Google News. It’s a great feature. I give Google a set of search terms, it generates a continually updating page of results from its database of news and commentary sources across the web. Among the terms I track with this feature is “John Dewey.” And what I have […]
For once, voter apathy didn’t doom us to be subject to the whims of our lawmakers. Pennsylvania’s legislators, who set the world land speed record for greed several months ago by voting themselves a disgusting pay raise in the middle of the night after cutting funds to education, child care and other programs, finally faced […]
I’ve had some fun joking about the confusion caused by comic continuity and universes before. And yet here I am, totally getting sucked in to a couple of DC’s ploys to play on both. I bought the oversized edition of Kurt Busiek and George Perez’s JLA/Avengers crossover, which is basically an excuse to have Perez […]
With Revenge of the Sith out on DVD, I have been a very happy Star Wars geek the last week or so. Here’s a roundup of Episode III-related reviews I’ve written over at theLogBook: The movie The DVD The graphic novel The Making of Ep III book The Art of Ep III book Back in […]
If you have access to a source of quality Dutch-processed cocoa powder, I recommend Alton Brown’s recipe for homemade cocoa mix. I tried it last year with a so-so brand of cocoa powder, and was less than thrilled. But this year we found a new variety at Whole Foods, and it’s some good stuff.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading in the area of democratic theory lately, which will provide fodder for a slew of more academic posts shortly. The area I’m focusing on is called deliberative democratic theory, which is basically concerned with getting citizens involved in the political process by getting them to justify their favored […]