“Blackfish” A Review
A female whale longing for her mother whale creates an intimate and desperately human moment on film, oddly enough
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The Ethics of Eating Meat
Mostly I want to muse, I have no philosophical formulation for why eating meat is morally permissible.
Life in a Claw Machine
Unfortunately, as anyone that’s ever gotten something from a claw machine, the zeal to actually get it is far more interesting than the zeal in having it.
“I’m not a bum, I’m a human being.”
Like Ronald Davis says in the above video, you lose a lot of your being sitting there begging, shaking a cup, asking for money.
The Pleasure of Grief
If a magical wand were waved over human experience and at once, we were living in the absence of pain, that wouldn’t be enough, I suspect.
The Forgotten Einsteins
Every single year, the intangible, the non-quantifiable goes silently into the dawn or into the night, the world never knowing what it lost.
The Need for Vulnerability
Is not vulnerability the crucible from which all else follows?
On a Cold Day, Consider the Less Fortunate
People, especially those without warm homes, die in weather like this.
