It's about balance, cobb. About recognizing which conversations involve topics that need being discussed into the ground in exhausting detail, and which just involve sticking with the big picture. That's what meditation helps with...you'll still be you...

This evening, hanging out with another cousin rather confirmed it for me, as well as hanging out with my boss. I am an utter and total bore. I retain the capacity to discuss a topic into the ground, abstracting from stuff I read too much of. Meditation can help with this, you know.

All in good time, ken. The latest rumor is that the head of Herman Cain's "secret group of economic advisors" is one Louis Cypher. The change in wording of those small print warranty exclusions, at least in the U.S., may now be only a matter of time. You heard it here first.

There are. But their motivation for causing earthquakes is different than what the Devil/Satan's motivation would be.

I'm not the only one who's picked up on the "666" nature of Cain's 9-9-9 plan: Devil In The Details" (On a side-note: Did you know that there is no "Devil/Satan" as such in Japanese religion? There also is no mention of anything like a Flood. Great Volcanic Eruptions, definitely, but no Flood.)

He doesn't mean "play" in the same sense that you mean "play", Gerard.

I seriously doubt we will ever see O'Donnel go after a white candidate about their lack of physical and sacrificial involvement in civil rights. I think it would depend on whether or not said white candidate made a point of such lack of involvement in his or her biography.

I think his was not that we need to teach children creativity, but that we need to stop beating creativity out of them.

Wake me up when they start talking about "surplus value". Then they'll have the beginning of a coherent program.

The writer clearly does not have much use for third parties. There's a lot of problems with this essay. Perhaps Cornell West has moved politically from being a democratic socialist to a revolutionary socialist. For revolutionary socialists, it's more important to take down the "crowned head" than squabble with a standard bearer of a right-wing party.

This has to be one of the most asinine things done by a Presidential candidate ever. Not something he should do if he wants to be taken seriously. Charles Krauthammer may have been right when he said, back in May, that Cain's campaign was strictly "for entertainment purposes". IOW, he's running a clown show (by his own choice). Never forget that "999", when inverted and then flipped left-to-right, is "666". :-)

But I'm not convinced that the sort of person who never offends (read Obama) is capable of swinging the big monkey nuts when the Office requires it. President Obama has single-handedly succeeded in making assassination a core principle of U.S. foreign policy, and extra-judicial assassination of U.S. citizens an acceptable component of the U.S. criminal justice system. Only a man of great courage could have achieved such. The target is destroyed.

Regarding Cain being accused by Limbaugh et al. of "playing the race card" against Perry and the Republican Party Isn't that amazing? Not particularly surprising, perhaps, but amazing, nevertheless.

The Cain thread brings this particular comment back to mind: If you want a soundbite, here's one for you - the MLK memorial depicts King with a scroll of papers, America would be much better off if statue of King we admire also had a rifle and that scroll of papers were a deed to property. But that is something Left politics will never deliver. Indeed, the Left can never deliver on that. To answer why, I must take back my previous comment on this image of MLK being a cross between Daniel Boone and a Century 21 agent. Upon further reflection, it's actually much closer in spirit to this: Libro e moschetto — fascista perfetto (Book and musket--perfect fascist). MLK sei immortale! :-)

If so, then all the more reason for you to donate to the Cain campaign, no? Following the principle of the world as action operating within the realm of Humanity, and all that...

So while I'm on the subject, I should say that I like his Triple Nine tax plan. In that case, are you going to step forward and donate to his campaign? Or are you still hoping for divine intervention, in the form of Chris Christie?

But I still think longingly of a black union controlling the waiters, porters, doormen, hotel staff, etc, and I know a black-owned hotel chain the size of Holiday Inn should have been part of the Negro legacy, and let's not even talk agribusiness. Actually, let's talk agribusiness for a moment. Maybe part of the reason for the present extreme dearth of black farmers nationwide is a consequence of this phenomenon: Sundown Towns And Their Importance

The AA bake sale thread brought this back to mind. Do Japanese anime/manga/hentai artists draw Japanese as idealized whites? Hmmm. Not "idealized", but I would say that there is a clear tendency to draw Japanese as "stylized" whites (like the three girls shown in Abagond's blog), though not ubiquitously so, for example: The Cockpit MV Here the Ohka pilot and his girlfriend are more definitively Japanese in physical appearance, and the Betty crews are early Disney cartoonish. Both are starkly different than how the Americans are drawn. Of course, when you see how strong emotions are expressed by "stylized" white-drawn anime characters, then it becomes pretty clear that these characters represent Japanese people.

Do the two of them have to spend their life together in a secret location because of the fatwa?

Randy, The Big Dog was telling the truth. He never had sex with Monica Lewinsky. A few years back, a Wisconsin Synod Lutheran colleague of mine explained how this was possible. Apparently, it all depends on how a particular religious group defines "sex".

Close call, but at this point in time, I'd have to say Clinton--the VRWC had him impeached over a personal issue. But next year at this time...

Well, the two of them do seem to have taken particular relish in generating social chaos whenever possible, no? Destruction seems to have been a major goal. That's a sure sign of a lack of awareness of what they're doing. Not good when you're having an affair--especially one you've decided to consummate.

What were von Hayek's views on family?

Married Sept. 10, eight months pregnant. He was cutting things a little close, no?

Hey, Cobb, you once wrote the following: There is marriage. And there is everything else. It would seem that there are actually three categories, no? (1) Marriage (2) What Ferguson and Hirsi Ali have (3) Everything else