The Fever of Phineas

My Lifelong Battle with Dualism. I confess that making binary sorts of distinctions has been a habit and a crutch my whole life. It is an attempt at simplification. I have been accused of over-simplification because of this rather insistent predilection. I don’t know for sure when simplification becomes over-simplification. I confess that too. But …

My Generation: Who’s Still Who – Home

Talking head: “I would tend to agree.” Oh *would* you? When would this happen? Under what conditions? This means you disagree now but later, under some unspecified conditions, you *would*? Would you agree or would you just tend to agree? If the statement you are making now is conditional upon some unspecified condition, why are …

Base Closing OK With California City – Yahoo! News I know *I’m* fine with it.

Such good beer.

I have this backlog of notepads — a bunch of the Mead student notebooks and other interesting journal dealies. I have a bunch of cool pens. I love cruising the paper and pen sections of the office supply stores. But the truth is I so rarely write anything down. I jot things down like phone …