Monthly Archives: November 2006

I Love Football, But Football Fans Have An Average IQ of 7

Hmm. Add to this the fol­low­ing anec­dotes: the amount of bitch­ing about Andy Reid, which assumes that he can con­trol injuries when his team plays in the tough­est divi­sion in foot­ball; the time Notre Dame fired Tyrone Will­ing­ham after con­ven­ing an emer­gency meet­ing of the Board of Trustees (or Gov­er­nors, or some­thing) after hav­ing lost …

November 30, 2006 – 11:38 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments (2)

The Temptation to Liberalism

What knowl­edge does is give one a com­fort zone — one thinks prob­lems can be solved by it, and it alone, and one feels like more knowl­edge can be had, so if there isn’t a solu­tion now, there will be one later. Notice that this is a very nar­row con­cep­tion of “knowl­edge,” one based on the …

November 30, 2006 – 2:01 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Seriously?

I remem­ber a pro­fes­sor once upon a time telling me that life was a game, and I started tun­ing him out. I’m pretty sure nowa­days he didn’t mean it in a triv­ial way, but when I see peo­ple say things like “Peo­ple who take them­selves seri­ously make me crack up,” I just won­der. Look, the world …

November 28, 2006 – 4:18 pm | By ashok | Posted in love, personal | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Thinking About Equality Got Me Doing Crass Self-Promotion

I keep the Index at Writin­gUp up-to-date with devel­op­ments here. I think the other older, major blog, sub­stan­tial, is an excel­lent read. I only have 100 entries from a span across years, but I really like every­thing I wrote there, girly as it can be some­times. Oh yeah, speak­ing of girly. I have other blogs, but …

November 27, 2006 – 4:02 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Enfolding (a poem)

Enfold­ing for Sarah John­ston — happy birth­day There were ideal forms once, seen in a past life. Brought forth by strokes, short graphite lines adding up, form­ing the ideal that once was — my hands tire. And these var­ied fla­vors, sour and sweet and fresh, that last one per­haps above all. Again I find that key …

November 13, 2006 – 3:21 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry | Comments (4)