A few weeks ago I received, quite unexpectedly, a copy of C.S. Lewis’s Surprised my Joy from an old college friend. I couldn’t turn down such a direct invitation, so I’ve read it. Here’s a report.
Unimpressed by Joy
I’ve never been much of a Lewis fan; but, since I haven’t read very much […]
If Walden was Thoreau’s flight from the market economy, it was, equally, a flight from women, from domesticity, from family life. He walked to town, nearly every day, to dine with friends; his mother often cooked for him…. Above all, he cherished his manly self-sufficiency (even though he carried his dirty laundry to Concord for […]
My old colleague Dave Hildebrand has a penned (or keyboarded) a collection entitled FOUR HAIKU ON THE APA CONVENTION. Here are a couple of samples:
My book is just out.
See it here, amidst the dreck?
Pity the backlists!
Matrix of tables
Saunter forth, meet your makers.
Pluck you from job hell.
A story in this morning’s Austin American-Statesman bears the headline “Parents feel ‘alienated’, seek ouster of school’s principal.” According to the story,
The parents said [Austin High School Principal John] Hudson does not support parents, students or teachers, and said he does not revere some of the 126-year-old school’s traditions. They fault him for cutting […]
In this NY Times article, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg quotes approvingly Richard Feynman’s dictum that “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” Seems to me that the corollary would be, “Scientists understand about as much about what they’re really doing as a tree does about photosynthesis.”
Although I was just a little kid in the late ’60s (my adolescence coinciding with the 1970s), I have memories of those heady times. Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Revolution in the air.
Most of that program didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to. (How could it have?) The utopian […]
In a previous post, I listed some of the books I’ve read over the past few months, and offered to publicize my appraisals of those works for anyone who might be interested. So far, I’ve had no takers (not surprising, in light of the number of readers that that offer is, realistically, likely to […]
Currently blogging from B.B. Rover’s, a fine Austin establishment that I can commend without reservation to my readers. More about that in a bit, should it become relevant.
In my last post, I promised to install a what-I’m-reading-now gizmo in my sidebar, and to do so pronto. And that was 3 or 4 days […]
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