"Overman would be proud," I mumbled to myself after hearing the second Elvis song in a row at 8:05 yesterday morning.
Yup, he would be ecstatic that if there was one thing carried over from my high school education, that I could recall Elvis Presley’s birthday with minimal prompting would be it. So I [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Pete
Filed under: Beginnings & Endings, Ethics & Morality, Music, Nostalgia, Philosophical | 3 Comments »
So I posted a comment on the NY Times Ethics blog for the first time.
Here’s the connection to the article. I am post #194.
Click to go to article. It’s an interesting read.
Posted on September 20th, 2009 by Ned
Filed under: Ethics & Morality, Politics | 5 Comments »
I posted this on facebook, but thought I would add a little here as well. I heard Jim Harris on NPR and if you view the website, you get a little insight into his life and work – amazing. But you don’t get all the war facts he dropped during the interview. It was shocking, [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Ned
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This is from a series I am doing on animal/human territory collisions. Somewhat related to my painting Apex. This is a parking lot near the Eau Claire mall where I saw a fox darting between two SUVs that inspired this painting of a trio of foxes. There should be two more to come, but right [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Ned
Filed under: Art, Beginnings & Endings, Ethics & Morality, Philosophical | 5 Comments »
A piece of Walt Whitman on this historic day:
From 1884
If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
‘Twould not be you, Niagara – nor you, ye limitless prairies – nor your huge
rifts of canyons, Colorado,
Nor you, Yosemite – nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops
ascending to the skies, appearing and [...]
Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Shotts
Filed under: Autumn, Beginnings & Endings, Ethics & Morality, Politics, Quotes | 3 Comments »
I apologize for coming on too strong in advance. I previously said I don’t like to tell people who to vote for, but this goes beyond voting. Despite how much this election represents to me.
Maybe I am adding flames to the fire, but the amount any of us writes to the federal government is going [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Ned
Filed under: Ethics & Morality, Politics | No Comments »
I have been thinking a lot recently about the nature of wealth and what is fair taxation, etc.
I heard Bill O’Reilly talking the other night and accusing Obama of wanting to do wealth redistribution. This got me thinking: “this is something people think of as negative because it means taking something hard-earned from those who [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Pete
Filed under: Charity, Ethics & Morality, Politics | 5 Comments »
There’s a really good article about green movements and issues in the Sunday Times. I think some of the things mentioned in the article could be applied in other areas of the country and world, like Eau Claire, WI. Click to the link.
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Ned
Filed under: Ethics & Morality | 2 Comments »
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Shotts
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Pinker has a quite good article in the NY Times.
There isn’t too much new there, but it offers a good overview of some of the ideas of Moral Psychology and relates them to issues of the environment at the end.
I’m glad that he brings up Peter Singer’s idea of the expanding circle of reciprocal trust [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Ned
Filed under: Books, Ethics & Morality, Philosophical | 3 Comments »
I’m wondering why I am posting this, but for some reason feel compelled. Since I have been on the couch or in bed lately, I managed to read a bit.
I just finished The Dream Life of Shukhanov by Olga Grushin. It was a terribly engaging book that takes place in real time over three [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2008 by Ned
Filed under: Art, Books, Ethics & Morality, Philosophical | 7 Comments »
I am doing Cropwalk this year again for anyone interested in supporting that cause you can write a check to Cropwalk and send it to us at 2028 8th Street, Eau Claire, WI. I have been sick twice this semester already, once with the stomach flu and once with the traditional flu. It’s made it [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2007 by Ned
Filed under: Charity, Ethics & Morality, Exercise | No Comments »
I have been contemplating this place and time in life–being 33. It is an interesting but hard to define stage. I have particularly been trying to explore the concept of the Jesus Year, as Jesus was supposedly 33 for the bulk of his ministry, betrayal, and death. The concept is that by the age of [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Shotts
Filed under: Autumn, Classmates, Doppelgangers, Ethics & Morality, Exercise, Family, Food, Hollow Men, Love, Nostalgia, Philosophical, Time | 3 Comments »
Sara and I had our only date in five months tonight. We ate dinner and saw HP and the Order. It was of course my choice of movie, but she enjoyed it almost as much as I did. We both liked it.
I recently read an article which talked about Rowling’s insistence that the themes and [...]
Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Ned
Filed under: Books, Ethics & Morality, Movies, Quotes | 2 Comments »
With the HP fervor going around, perhaps there is no one out there to read this anyway. I have been haunted by a few things from a discussion we had on this blog months ago now, especially after reading Mountains Beyond Mountains. The first was Peters statement that everyting we do, we do to serve [...]
Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Ned
Filed under: Books, Ethics & Morality, Hollow Men, Science | 10 Comments »
