Marlow’s Listener

“A good country song usually kind of tells a story about something that’s happened — so that’s what we’d go out looking for.”

The “opposition” is the party out of power that holds itself out as ready and able to assume power, an in posse in opposition to an in esse. Being the opposition is the fourth way to Thomas Paine’s three. John McCain tried to do all four at once with the so-called bailout and fell, as [...]

anyone who can criticise ‘the eminently resistible prose style of [Wood's] donnish, finicky persona’, and then write phrases like ‘Wood’s study must be vast, with well-stocked shelves, judging by the inarguable erudition displayed in his compact vade mecum’, must be pretty immune to irony.”

Now they have once again confused talk radio with reality. If this economy slides, they will go down in history as the Smoot-Hawleys of the 21st century. With this vote, they’ve taken responsibility for this economy, and they will be held accountable. The short-term blows will fall on John McCain, the long-term stress on the [...]

Sandbox

he was a skilled, serious, professional and world-class race car driver as well as one of the most successful team owners in the sport’s history. Had he never acted, his racing career alone would have garnered him great fame and fortune.

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My guess is that the narrow gates of life’s evolution do not restrict how often it happens as much as it restricts how often alternative foundations (like DNA) happen. There may be only a few basic ways to construct a self-evolved, extropic self-reproducing life form.  Once you have that, then possibilities open up. And if [...]

An eye for empire

Clouding the issues