August 2008
16 posts
Politix
So apparently McCain’s choice of Palin undercuts his message of experience and Obama’s choice of Biden undercuts his message of change. Does that mean they just cancel each other out?
Also, is it just me or does anyone else notice that Obama’s speeches generally peak about five minutes before the end, but when the end comes they just sort of fizzle out? I wonder if this is an...
smalter:
I don’t know if political operatives are actually really stupid or just that they’re couching their ideas in terms of what works in politics.
Maybe they actually start believing it after they’ve been doing it for so long and just become stupid. Or maybe we’re all the stupid ones.
One of the Reasons Law School Orientation is so...
Really, the only meaningful expression of your past is your present and future, but during orientation you’re always talking about your past. There aren’t really many avenues during orientation to express the breadth of your person. On a whole, though, I think orientation is a good thing as long as you realize that the point isn’t to get to know people or have other people get...
Venn Diagrams
I was just reading an article on bans on interracial marriage and it seems, on first glance, to follow a pretty common pattern. There’s a superset, C, that contains A and B. You want to target A, but when you do, people protest and say it only makes sense if it’s in the name of C, which would mean you would have to condemn B as well. You don’t particularly care about B either...
The law strikes me as a lonely profession devoid of humanity. Gulp…
“The supreme maxim in scientific philosophizing is this: Wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.”
In other words, instead of assuming hidden causes or transcendental principles behind everything we see or do, we are to redefine the concepts of abstract thought as constructs, or functions, or complexes, or patterns, or arrangements, of the...
Law School Orientation
I’ve spent half my time during law school orientation so far imagining myself in a similar orientation, but in medical school, and the other half actually paying attention. I thought of an analogy. Biology is like a foreign language to me, but the choice of law school was akin to dating myself. Medical school is like the opposite, whatever that is. My solution: marry a doctor. ch-ching.
smalter:
Does the rash of Chinese-gymnasts-are-underage posts on Tumblr have more to do with the anxiety of white women at their inability to age as well as Chinese women than it has to do with gymnastics?
hehe, when I see things like this in the mainstream media, then maybe we can talk about a post-racial society
Sometimes I think I run in fear of my true nature. It comes out in the way I try to deal with social etiquette, namely, that I actually try to use social etiquette tactically, rather than just being myself. For the most part, it fails, either because I can’t actually completely dissasociate myself and I end up doing some muddled up combination that makes no sense or I’m simply not...
Reppin' Two Countries →
Abhinav Bindra wins India’s first individual Olympic gold medal in the 10-meter air rifle competition. India No. 1! India No. 1!
I have a hard time taking Usher serious when he tries to act bad-ass. I like the ending where he walks out into the apocalypse and in the beginning when he puts on his sunglasses. That’s how I wake up every morning.
Decisions
I had to make an important personal decision recently. I guess my method for making that decision was a little strange. I made a gut decision and am working my way backwards to try and understand it, to make some sort of peace with it. I suppose you have to move forward to make peace with past decisions, right or wrong, or maybe it’s just an ongoing process.
B********c: i read the best review of batman over lunch
B********c: my summary:
B********c: ...the absence of any possible idea of redemption for the human spirit is impressive. In the world of "the Batman," humanity at its very best is capable only of being confused about itself...instead of good-versus-evil you only get befuddlement-versus-evil...Any consideration of the heroic is off the menu.
B********c: http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/08/dark-knight.html
