Excerpted comments from OG Maribou in blockquotes – with my excerpted replies following:
notes
Further on the 3rd position on SSM and Procreative Concept
I still intend a more systematic treatment on the issues raised by the SSM phenomenon – by which I do not mean “new reasons to attack SSM” – but for the moment I’ll just re-produce another comment at OT, this…
In-Reply-To and Infinite Replies
Over at OT, I have added a variation on automatic “In Reply To” commenting links, which I believe may once have been more common, and which some users find helpful in sorting out long discussions, especially in nested comment threads…
Posted in notes, Web Design, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: Commenting, Ordinary Times, Snippets, Wordpress
Procreative Concept and the Insult to Gays; My Father’s Gifts; Roger’s OK
Been very busy at OT lately, having entrapped myself by starting to fix, develop, re-design the site on the fly. Whole new vistas of massively unpaid labor are opening before me, though maybe I’ll eventually figure out how to monetize…
Posted in Marriage of Equality and Inequality, Meta, notes, Web Design Tagged with: Duncan MacLeod, marriage equality, Roger McLeod
Will’s Affront (An Untimely Post)
An American conservative attitude toward the nature of crime, as committed by individuals against individuals, and as naming specific acts – not “rape is rape” and “no is no,” but “only real rape is rape” and “only a real no is no” – may prevent conservatives from saying what they really mean: that in fact they agree about the existence of a rape culture, but disagree as to who the real perpetrators have been and are.
Posted in Featured, Internet, notes, Philology, Untimely Tagged with: George Will, rape, rape culture, Swarthmore, victimhood
The Sane and Rational and Decent Torturer
Responding to Dick Cheney’s infamous performance on Meet the Press, Andrew Sullivan delivers an admission at odds with his thesis of the irredeemable evil of the Bush Administration’s enhanced interrogations program. Sullivan addresses a set of exchanges between Cheney and…
The Ephemeral Sublime vs The Triumph of Death
“The Triumph of Death,” Pieter Bruegel, The Elder
To treat the past as nothing because it is or seems inaccessible to us is to imply the nothingness of every present destined to fall into it next – to make the substance of life the triumph of death… and therefore it is not thus.
Less Ephemeral: Site vs Blog
Though the big, slick, expensive sites and services offer many of the things, and better, that ten years ago we went to (each other’s) blogs to find, they are inadequate for anyone seeking more than “the literature of a quarter of an hour,” but not involved in, supported by, or satisfied with traditional commercial and academic publishing. A blog might seem to belong to that species of 15-minute literature, but, once the all-consuming desire for passing interest has been stolen away or stolen back, the blog-as-log begins to disappear, revealing a virtual location: the site, marked by the non- or anti-ephemeral durability of logos rather than log.
Brown and Wilson as Black and White as Blue and Red
To get to “meta” on Ferguson, and begin to cross the red and blue divide, we might consider @RichLowry’s (Rich Lowry’s) re-tweet of the following defensive reply on his behalf to a tweet by @jbouie (Jamelle Bouie): https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/537626135576981505 Since the…
Realizing the Commentariat
Rough drafts for a “Commentariat” Suite