First Door On Your Left |
"You're in big trouble. Go to your room." Oh how I yearn for those days. The days of being a worry-free child under the care and love of my family? No, forget those days. It's over, not coming back...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:59:00 PST |
On presence |
According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of woman is different in kind from that of a man...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:23:00 PST |
2.25 |
Philosophy As I See It, Volume I:"Before Descartes, it was only about one thing: the human soul. Was it material? Was it mortal? Today, it is about the self. Did you know that John Locke was the one w...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:08:00 PST |
Cow Theory of Government |
DEMOCRATYou have two cows.Your neighbor has none.You feel guilty for being successful.You vote people into office that put a tax on your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax.The...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:42:00 PST |
Bugs Bunny, Greatest Banned Player Ever |
With the DVD release of "Looney Tunes Golden Collection" it is at last possible for us to examine in detail one of the most famous baseball games ever played, and see what lessons the contest holds fo...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:08:00 PST |
The Defeat of the Evil-Deceiver |
And with that, I don't really mean the Cartesian Evil-Deceiver in all its philosophical glory. I'm taking it for what my intuition wants to tell me it means: a deceiver, obervably and naturally, evil....
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:42:00 PST |
Not Our Year... Again |
Another year, another excuse. Our season ended last night when Colorado swept a double-header. 11 games to go, 4.5 games back of a playoff spot. You do the math. 1988 has never seemed so far away& ...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:40:00 PST |
Kicks |
It happened! It happened!A while back, while watching a pitiful NBA game with a collection of pitiful players, a player got fouled and was set to shoot two free throws. As he was stepping up to the li...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:36:00 PST |
The Missing Dimension of Sociality |
The following is a discussion of American society, a society neglectful of family, groups, and community as entrenched by legal and moral code. Why has the family dissolved in America? What are the im...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:59:00 PST |
Highway to Hell |
The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via...
Posted by Lakeside Doon on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:46:00 PST |
