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Category: Philosophy
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Blast from the Past: Redneck Manifesto
This was published three years ago, but I realized yesterday it had gotten lost when I switched blog hosts. Fortunately I have access to archives. He’s written a snarky take on the Glass Ceiling which reminded me that I had read him before. I had to review a book for my Cultural Anthropology class.…
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The Feminist Gynaeceum
As I am taking this history class, and then today’s Google graphic, I have been thinking about something. The patriarchy has become the boogeyman. It’s easy – and safe- to blame it for every little thing. Now, I’m not an anti-feminist as has been said. I am more of a rational feminist. I think.…
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The Incredible, Edible, Rise of Civilization
Sarah Hoyt published my essay on food and its connection to the world as we know it over at According to Hoyt today. It always comes back to food. It’s not just my personal pleasure in cooking, eating, and feeding others. It is literally the foundation of the human condition: good food and plenty of…
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Sounds
There’s a dog at the neighbors making a noise. When I first heard it, pre-coffee and still half-asleep, I walked to the back door and only realized it wasn’t our girl wanting in out of the back yard when she came up to my feet and sat down expectantly looking up at me and waiting…
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Self Images
Written by Sanford Begley I re-watched an old western last night. How old? It was released the year I was born. The movie was called Cowboy and was about a kid learning to be a man. Some of the things the movie thought represented manhood look silly today, and Jack Lemmon was too old to…
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And the books lie in mouldering heaps
I was noodling around on the net and ran across a book last night. As I downloaded it, because it’s a Project Gutenburg book (free!), looks interesting, and I might read it, something occurred to me. We keep hearing that the book as a form of entertainment is dying. I know people who proudly proclaim…