When Truth Serves Power
I see two reasons for being suspicious of truth claims made by authorities, be the authorities religious, political, or otherwise: first, a particular claim may not be true, and second, even if a claim...
Monthly Archive: June 2012
Was Snow White’s Showdown a Letdown?
Because I am in no way obsessed, but rather for the simple reason that most new visitors to this site seem to have come for commentary on Charlize Theron’s milky bathing habits, I thought...
Henri’s Ennui
How had I missed le Chat Noir’s Sartrean musings? Part one is below. Part two is here. These are hilarious if you’ve spent any being and time reading French existentialism. Or watching the ennui...
LEGO Blogging: Airship
As much as I’d love to have the expendable income to splurge on every Lego set ever manufactured, the number of sets we’ve actual been able to purchase fit in your standard toolbox. Consequently,...
A ‘Snow White’ Sequel?
Meredeth Woerner of i09 is none too keen on the announcement of a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, reasonably cynical that the decision has everything to do with money and dubious of...
Echoes on the Road
“What seems to me to be constitutive of the religious is, therefore, the fact of crediting a word, in accordance with a certain code and within the limits of a certain canon. I would...
On Being a Critical, Suspicious Son of the Church
Much to Tom Van Dyke’s seemingly apparent confusion, I take a harshly critical stance toward the mitre-wearing powers that be who run the Roman Catholic Church, the institutional faith to which I belong. As...
The Inquisition Is Alive, But Is It Well?
The inquisition continues to this day, albeit under a different name and with different methods. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), formerly called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and...
Undercover Ethics
Several readers of yesterday’s post–on the topic of lying to expose some truth–raised the practice of undercover investigations as a counter example to my thesis, asking if I would consider undercover work unethical for...
