"Given the choice between pain and nothing, I would choose pain. I cannot live in nothingness." -William Faulkner
"Do not expect to win. Do not expect to lose. Just respond." -Ken Takakura in The Yakuza
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." -Dean Wormer in Animal House
"I have been sometimes alone and happy, sometimes alone and lonely. Sometimes I was happy in a relationship, but other times felt even more lonely in a relationship. How happy people are depends on what their heart can endure." -Jung Yi-Hyun, My Sweet Seoul
Wed 9 Dec, 2015 03:04 pm - [quote][b]An impasse on affirmative action?[/b]
(Irin Carmon, MSNBC, December 9, 2015)
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has had a long time to consider the case of Abigail Fisher, the... (view)
Sun 6 Dec, 2015 09:32 am - [quote][b]Op-Ed A conservative quandary in affirmative action case Fisher vs. Texas[/b]
(Eric J. Segall, The Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2015)
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will once... (view)
Sun 22 Nov, 2015 08:19 am - Let me share my favorite wedding poem with you, foundygirl.
[b]The River Merchant's Wife[/b]
by Li Po (701-762 A.D.)
English translation by Ezra Pound
While my hair was still cut... (view)
Thu 19 Nov, 2015 03:53 pm - [quote="Leadfoot"]
Now you stop pretending that all Darwinians hold the same view and switch to the new paradigm simultaneously. I was just recently reading a Darwinist criticism of the... (view)
Thu 19 Nov, 2015 03:04 pm - [quote="Lash"]
This unconfirmed story is lighting up Twitter. On several levels, I hope it's incorrect - because shouts are going up for Donald Trump and this hurts the progressive... (view)
Wed 18 Nov, 2015 12:13 pm - [quote][b]The constitutional question over states and Syrian refugees[/b]
(National Constitution Center, November 18, 2015)
With more than two dozen governors objecting to a federal government... (view)
