Was it just me, or did anyone else notice that the tongue-in-cheek references to ‘Armageddon’ and ‘The End of the World’ in Sydney on 23rd of September didn’t quite have their tongues completely in their cheeks?
As the dust storm swept through our city, a bunch of my friends, and a bunch of stuff I read [...]
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Red Skies and Gnawing Questions
Posted in Atheism, Climate Change, Environment, Ethics, Judgment, Sydney, William Butler Yeats on October 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
On Money and Privacy
Posted in 1960s, Ethics, Freedom, Howard Hughes, Joan Didion, Judgment, Money, New Testament, Paul, Privacy on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are fascinated with privacy. Gossip magazines, stories about dual identities and secret affairs, and TV shows like Lie to Me and Big Brother disclose this fascination of ours pretty obviously. There is something alluring about the possibility of a secret identity, a secret relationship, secret passions, a secret past. At the same time there [...]
Radiohead on Hiding From Your Choices
Posted in Ethics, Judgment, Music, Radiohead on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I’m at the pearly gates
This’ll be on my videotape
My videotape
My videotape
Mephistopheles is just beneath
And he’s reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days
And I have it all here in
Red, blue, green
Red, blue, green
You are my centre when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape
On videotape
On videotape
This is my way of [...]
