Monthly Archives: January 2007

Quick Advertisement, and a Question

A new social bookmarking site called “Right Bump” is up and running and it isn’t perfect, but I think people should be submitting and debating there, if they’re conservative. The other social bookmarking sites lean very heavily “radical,” I’ve been shouted down there many a time by the DailyKos crowd (some of whom are really …

January 31, 2007 – 6:20 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (4)

On "Blog Bling"

I attempted to post this comment at performancing.com, in response to this post about “blog bling,” but it was probably thrown out as egotistical tangential raving, which it was. Contrast it with the comments on-topic there, please – I really don’t like my comments being thrown out, rightly or wrongly. Agreed entirely. It [a feature …

January 31, 2007 – 1:50 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Comments (2)

Links, 1/30

Just some links that are definitely worth your time. I’m not really posting today because I have to catch up with reading sometime.1. Josh muses on the nature of sin and its consequences in two separate posts. If you go back through his recent archive, there’s also grappling with SK’s aesthetic and ethical levels of …

January 30, 2007 – 2:56 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (3)

Beyond Right and Left: Manifesto

I got whiny on Buzzmachine about the state of politics today, and how I’m right and everyone else is wrong, and I think I had better write something that states more directly what I want:I still get asked by people, when they ask me what I study and I answer “political science,” whether I want …

January 29, 2007 – 11:18 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (2)

A Curious Thing

Every time I rant to myself about love or relationships, I think through my problems, and the problems of others, and while I don’t have everything exactly right, I know I have it right enough, and am open to better thoughts if they do come. But thought fails to satisfy, utterly fails to satisfy. It …

January 29, 2007 – 2:53 am | By ashok | Posted in love, politics | Comments (2)

The Coming Age, Part 4

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 4. In this final part, I want to cover Malcolm’s versus Duncan’s speeches which allocate honors, discuss what the significance of the witches are, and conclude with the speech of the three beings which prophesy to Macbeth in the middle of the play. That …

January 28, 2007 – 3:53 pm | By ashok | Posted in poetry, politics, shakespeare | Tagged | Comments (3)

The Coming Age, part 3

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 3. I have laid the foundations for criticism of Duncan, but the imagery I mentioned earlier, imagery that leads us away from the primordial chaos of the first battles, is associated primarily with his being. He is the feudal order in full blossom, as …

January 27, 2007 – 11:17 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry, politics, shakespeare | Tagged | Comments (1)

The Coming Age, part 2

The Coming Age: Macbeth and the Birth of the Modern World an online essay by Ashok Karra part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 for Jill Jeffrey, Teresa Sapp, and Nancy Ruggeri, all of whom understand Shakespeare far, far better than I do. Note: References in parentheses are to act, scene …

January 26, 2007 – 2:25 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry, politics, shakespeare | Tagged | Comments (3)

The Coming Age, an essay on Macbeth – part 1

The Coming Age: Macbeth and the Birth of the Modern World an online essay by Ashok Karra, in 4 parts part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 for Jill Jeffrey, Teresa Sapp, and Nancy Ruggeri, all of whom understand Shakespeare far, far better than I do. Note: References in parentheses are …

January 26, 2007 – 1:54 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry, politics, shakespeare | Tagged | Comments (8)

Arguing for Morals in a Free Society

Left as a comment on Dawn Eden’s blog as a response to this post. Do note the quoting of James 3:17 in that post, “Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” What should be disturbing to anyone who still believes the word “feminist” has positive meaning is how …

January 24, 2007 – 10:22 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (4)