by Alan Gibson, guest writer
Newsweek magazine recently clouted me across the snout with a stark observation: “How utterly we fail at discussing culture in American.”
OK, that hurt. I discuss American culture all the time. For example, my observation that Newsweek’s new format is about as exciting as the owner’s manual for a tractor. But let’s [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 21, 2009
How American Discourse Goes Awry
June 21, 2009
Eponymous
Posted by Mike
Last night I was with a group of friends waiting for a table in a restaurant. One of the guys was talking, and he referred to an eponymous something. I jumped in and said “What does that mean? I seem to see that word all the time in magazine articles, have looked it [...]
June 10, 2009
Flipping Burgers in Love
Posted by David
My brow is furrowed. I’m staring at the computer screen trying to solve a problem with a Flash animation. Hours have passed and I’ve hardly moved. My wife walks in and asks me, “How are you?”
My focus is broken and I look up at her and take a moment to respond. In this [...]
June 8, 2009
Love: a perptual motion machine
Posted by David
I’ll be piggy backing on a theme written by Mike Mason—that love is a perpetual motion machine.
[T]here is only one true perpetual motion machine in the universe, and that is love. Love is the only energy that will keep on going forever, which is why it is the mainspring of eternal life. How [...]
June 7, 2009
I’m Just Saying…! Part One
Posted by Mike
June 7, 2009: So this doctor I work with asked me if I am an agnostic or an atheist. Obviously the question didn’t just come up out of the blue; I set it up by what I had said before – but as this conversation occurred several days ago, it so happens that [...]
June 4, 2009
The One Love: Friendship
Posted by David
Of all of man’s passions, human love is most certainly a bitter-sweet fruit.
I remember hiking with a friend in Death Valley a bit over ten years ago. We were exploring the stark, bright landscape examining the canyons, rocks and various living things that hid in the limited shade of this bleak world. Across a [...]
June 2, 2009
The Two Loves
Posted by David
The question “what is love” has cycled in my mind since adolescence, as is probably the case with most people. But only in the past eight or so years have I looked at love systematically (if that is possible) due to my reading of C.S. Lewis’ book, The Four Loves, where Lewis describes love as having [...]
