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Super Tuesday: Why I Support Barak Obama

It’s a little hard to be away from my home country this week. I have followed politics closely since before the 2001 elections when I thought that a little bit of Bush would be good for the country to get out of its system. I followed the intervening years, then the 2004 campaign like someone [...]

Posted 04 February 2008 Adam § , , , § Comments (8)

The ‘Henge

Enough people had told me about their disappointing trips to Stonehenge, that I’d lowered my expectations pretty far. The bus trip was long, our tour guide was freaking me out (long story), and I’d overslept enough that breakfast and (worse) coffee were not an option. It’s fair to say that I was about as close [...]

Posted 25 January 2008 Adam § , § Comments (3)

Homesick

It’s such a wonderful word, homesick. Not an illness or a mental deficiency, but a melancholy longing. I don’t think it’s for place or person so much as for familiarity. It’s a word with great rhythm as well, with the same form as lovesick, awestruck, or shipwreck. And I finally have a chance to see [...]

Posted 13 January 2008 Adam § , § Comments (3)

A little night philosophy

I suppose it’s obvious at this point that I can’t sleep tonight. Half of me wants to dive into how the characters from Labute’s play do or do not approximate Kant’s notion of evil. But that would take all night and I’m really supposed to be awake enough tomorrow to introduce my classes. So in [...]

Posted 10 January 2008 Adam § , , , § Comments (1)

Red Hot Chili Pipers (Hogmanay Redux)

Wow, found a youtube video of the aforementioned Red Hot Chili Pipers playing at the Street Party in Edinburgh. There are a couple of blurry flashes that look like they could be me or the people I was with, but I think we were much farther away than where the video was taken. Then again, [...]

Posted 10 January 2008 Adam § , , § Comments (3)

First-Footing

Well I’m long back from Edinburgh’s New Year’s celebration. Internet access was £1 for 30 minutes, so not much posting there. Now skulking in my flat, trying not to spend money. But the memories of Hogmanay (thankfully I actually have memories this time) are still present. New Years is always such a crazy menagerie of [...]

Posted 06 January 2008 Adam § § Comments (1)

Thoughts on Destiny (and Darth Vader)

After my meaning of life course last semester, I have more thoughts than usual about the place of “meaning” in modern philosophy. But what “meaning” is tends not to be too terribly clear. Is it one’s deepest plans, deepest desires, one’s purpose according to a higher being, one’s purpose according to oneself, one’s destiny, or [...]

Posted 01 November 2007 Adam § , , § Comments (6)