Of Reasonable Discourse

"There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse."

-- Socratic maxim, quoted in J. Miller's "Examined Lives"

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"The Republican Brain"

We are familiar with the way that Republican conservatives favor their faith (faith in their notions of Christianity and faith in themselves as America's only truly patriotic party) against evidence, facts, and knowledge. Krugman takes another good swing at it, looking at the authoritarian inclinations of the Republican Party, and we will get it down.

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wank

Oh, twelve o'clock already, shit!

Another big wank got away from me.

Pop said that he was going to Kathy's and would not be back until Sunday, and I guess I got carried away. Well, at least it is out of my system and I won't feel rutty for the rest of the day.

Vera Pavlova

"Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened."

-- Vera Pavlova

Larry Hagman, Dead at 81

DALLAS star Larry Hagman has died at the age of 81. Hagman, famed for playing the villainous oil baron JR Ewing, passed away at a Dallas Hospital, according to media reports.

His Dallas co-stars Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, who played his wife Sue Ellen and brother Bobby, were at his bedside, The Sun newspaper reports. Among those confirming the death were Linda Gray's agent, Jeffrey Lane, The Dallas Morning News said.

Hagman had a liver transplant in 1995 after years of alcoholism. He revealed how he used to down bottles of champagne on the Dallas set.

-- ONTD

I also remember him from the "I Dream of Jeannie" days, though Barbara Eden and her magnificent chest were the main draw. He was one of the big ones for the small screen, though I don't really feel it inside.