Is it apt?

Some of you may have already come across “A Person Paper on Purity in Language,” by cognitivist academic Douglas Hofstadter.
I’ve got a question about it. In the headline. Let’s work it out.

More Monday Morning Surrealism

A totally undoctored photo of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin:

Via Foreign Policy.
Even mass murderering human monsters have senses of humor. Somehow, that makes it more creepy. Albeit, their actual “jokes” are pretty terrible. Which makes it even creepier. Take this actual anecdote about Hitler:
He had a favourite one about [...]

The Centennial

Today classes commence for the 2009-2010 school-year. Cheers to you. Whet yourself for hardness, and find what joy in your work that you can.
What expectations do you have for the 100th year of women at Marquette?

Monday Morning Surrealism

 All those parts comprising me which are materialists rebel against our posting of a painting titled “The Good Omens” the day classes commence because classes start today, and that “luck” might be swayed goodly by the posting. Uploading the picture I did, in this semi-public forum, records the stirrings of my superstitions. This is a good thing. It is [...]

Weekly breakdown

Issues Actually about feminism: One.
LGBT issues: Two.
Critiques of the right: Four.
Critiques of the left: Two.

Alaskans are just as pissed as we are

AK Dispatch lays it on Palin one year after she trippedupstairs into the national scene. Lary Persily writes on how she was “infulential, but not in a good way“:
Yes, she changed the national political scene, and certainly will stir more emotional pots before she fades away like so many other instant personalities who have filled the [...]

Summer 2009

If this post succeeds, I might escape much small-talk on the most obvious question to be asked in the next few weeks. Between May and September, I:
 
 -Spent a truly hateful amount of time on the Internet.
-Read fewer books than I would have liked.  
-Saw the president speak.  What he said was nice, but should [...]

A question for our time

Is using a minotaur to gore detainess a form of torture?

An unequivocal denunciation

In a blog post, sex-and-relationship columnist and pundit Dan Savage discussed a Baptist pastor praying for the death and damnation of Pres. Obama. He makes some cogent points:
Remember when you could get arrested for wearing a t-shirt that insulted the president? Times have changed. Now you can threaten the president’s life in front of a [...]

Speaking up

I’ve been considering for awhile how I might blog about faith-related topics here at the word warrior. I didn’t blog as much last year as I had intended, in part because I wasn’t sure how to go about doing it. I know how to talk about theology, biblical interpretation and authority, the formation of the [...]