dinesh is clearly a child.

It is unsettling that mindlessness now walks easily down the street. what i consider a punk.

I will admit I have not read the entire argument.

What is interesting to me is the introduction.

It is not the first time that trotsky has been blamed or cited as an originary source of megalomania. Yet, I applaud the counter-intuitive association with neoconservatism.

Imagination is not confined to fables. Imagination is more a considerate tool of thought.

Blumenthal, i think, is offering a dialectical opportunity to walk away from the easy shit too easily accepted and too easily compartmentalized.

To battle so many dark forces requires thinking.

And imagination.

wow! Am I sorry.

I have easily overestimated Kamiya.

Heretofore he has seemed somewhat astute. Little did I realise he is not much more than an irish drunk.

ALOT of people have died in vain. And it continues.

Perhaps the signal question is whose vanity lives?

Assuredly, Kamiya always impresses me with his erudition and the flow of his prose. And I recognize how easy it is for someone like me to carp about this or that fish he didn't catch. hmmm.

I just kinda continue to suspect analgesic words.

As a painter, I notice the same reflex.

Adorno always championed difficulty and I think he was correct.

Drawing breath is not always drawing a smile of cognitive contentment. In this era, I would suggest mapping more the grin lines of less apparent uncertainty. hmmm.

Nice piece. Had a couple moments of appropriate upward climbing too easily traduced by slip-slides back to comfortable ledges. Nonetheless, the overall pitch was sufficiently acute.

Geez. Ain't the appropriate use of metaphor elusive?

why do i admire kamiya? When he is not obvious, which is rare, he is devoted.What i might suggest is that Gary read more Adorno.

Assuredly, according to contemporary bookmarks, this scene is pretty easily understood. But, we are not finally dealing with pseudo-manichaean difficulties. We are unfortunately facing ourselves. Fifty percent of the muslim world is illiterate. Humankind remains half feral. It will not change. Hope is amongst the imaginary. All I have to do so far is breathe.

Nice to see Kamiya getting his stroke back.

It is encouraging to read Kamiya upset. It is discouraging to hear argumentative retreads. Everybody knows things are screwed up. No-one yet has cognized why. Pointing fingers is like boiling eggs for breakfast- it is a purposeful activity that quickly disappears. I think the kid is looking correctly over his shoulder, but it is unclear who still controls his legs.

I would, of course, suggest that he read more Marx.

Ah...Ms. Paglia,

You've always been a delight to read and now I recognize part of the why. I disagree with your assertion in Sexual Personae that guys are freaked by female genitalia- as a left-winger, you were Ann Coulter before Ann Coulter.

But, anybody who dug the Byrds clearly understands something about something. Adorno perhaps is smiling somewhere.

It is more than sad.

Americans are overfed pigs. They could care less about anything that doesn't disrupt Comcast. You will notice that the attraction of Obama is his vagueness. This country deserves a new tyrant. Anything that keeps the trains running. Rest in Peace, Bill Bailey.

Wow.Well I am only immensely impressed.

i suppose there are a few topics it would be cool to be noticed.

Like Sontag's staging of Waiting For Godot in Sarajevo under siege. Or the aptness of her old notice: On Photography.But her dear son is as transparently honest as his mom. None of us are Hunter Thompson.

aw, shucks...as Jimi Hendrix once remarked, I loves ya.

Kamiya is kinda odd. He thinks about this, he thinks about that.

He is not a Charles Krauthammer. Geez, ya know Robbe-Grillet just disappeared. There is a cultural slot open. Think about it, Mr. Kamiya, you can be relevant as well as interesting. Best wishes.

Well, i am very impressed and happy. Pleasured by the certainty that a couple weeks ago i wrote someone promoting the value of uncertainty. I suppose, or wonder, if the neurobiologic use of certainty isn't similar and counterbalancing to the survival use of fear. Perhaps that was stated or implied. I think I'm too dense to be certain.

I am disappointed and certainly disagree. WHAT is it that bothers liberal/progressives about choice? The common fall back, as Walsh dredged up, is that third parties can't compete adequately against the entrenched system. Well. if we really believed in a fully functional democracy, should we not work to EXPAND choice rather than contract it with the spurious appeal to realpolitik?

Geez. Yeah, the Republicans are bad guys, but what have the Democrats proven to be except enablers?

"And in the mists of history, perhaps "nothing" and "everything" are sometimes indistinguishable."

Well, yes.

Geez.

Peyote is ever the best change maker. It is absurd to assert monotheistic culturalism. Which, happily, Kamiya resists. Have a life. It remains available.

"David Brooks, then a conservative..."

What has Hanaham been smoking?

metaphor and irony is the new truth-telling. Heidegger is upset. Wittgenstein is I told you so.

well...enormously conflicted I am- impressed by McClelland's commentary but equally impressed by allie's response. Watching horse racing is new to me- somewhat a way to reconnect with my 85-year-old father and somewhat an odd result of reading Faulkner. I don't know, really, what to do. As unparallel as this probably is, I flashback to the 2001 Daytona 500. Y'know, Curling is a pretty safe sport.