Category Archives: Mind-blowing Miscellania and other Neat Stuff

People who construe liberty [primarily in terms of political freedoms] are highly privileged: they don’t realize the real constraints on most people’s freedom–poverty and drudgery. In the most fundamental sense liberty is just the absence of physical constraint. Most people … Continue reading →

It saddens me that – apart from a few lucky areas with local producers – the drug LSD has ceased to exist. The one time the war on drugs actually succeeds in wiping a drug out, why must it be … Continue reading →

Most folks have some “word peeves” – some common use of language that irritates them to no end. What I can’t abide is the word “literally” used to mean “figuratively,” as in “I was literally beside myself in anger.” What … Continue reading →

Remember the movie Forty Days and Forty Nights? I didn’t see it, but the premise was that there was something extraordinary about voluntarily going six weeks without having sex. I thought that was completely nuts, but apparently that’s normal thinking … Continue reading →

Had an interesting conversation the other night – along the same lines as this post from David’s Journal. David, talking about an episode of ER in which a character lost a limb, asks that set of questions….Would you rather lose … Continue reading →