Category Archives: Included in this classification

The Supreme Court, Gays, and the Death of Marriage

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

I stopped blogging about gay marriage a while ago because I had become tiresome on the subject. I was just reiterating the standard arguments in favor so what’s the point? I figure the current Supreme Court docket provides me a last … Continue reading →

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The Folk Tradition

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Down at my parents’ home south of Austin for a few weeks. In the evening as we’ve always done, my father and I play guitar. He sings and plays rhythm on the vintage Kay archtop while I play lead on … Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 11,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading →

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You’re Welcome, Google Images

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

Recently I went through old posts here and added titles to all the pictures that appear when you hover your mouse over them. This is what I will do henceforth for new images. The titles are short bits of text in … Continue reading →

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Murphy’s Power Law

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

How many typos are there in this post? I’m betting zero, but I’m not sure. Sometimes I’ll be browsing through old ones and come across some minor error–an of for if fat-fingering, writing an for and because that’s how I pronounce it, or the … Continue reading →

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Look Up

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

At some point a couple weeks ago random images started appearing at the top of this blog. I don’t know if WordPress changed the banner default for the theme I’m using, or if I accidentally turned it on, though I suspect … Continue reading →

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Beyoncé’s Bride Price

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

I’ve decided to steer away from popular culture commentary on Corner Cases because I feel like this topic is adequately covered elsewhere online, but that Beyoncé song is still getting airplay and I’ve got Sex at Dawn on the brain, … Continue reading →

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Turns Out Space Does Matter

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

A little while ago I said I was going to stop ending sentences with two spaces when writing in non-monospace fonts, but nearly three decades as a typist have made this a hard habit to break. I keep double-spacing full … Continue reading →

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Standing Caveat

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

Much of this blog is concerned with issues in well-studied areas of philosophy.  I have very little formal training in philosophy.  As I’m writing a post I frequently find myself thinking, “There’s no way this is an original idea.”  However, … Continue reading →

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Out in the Corners

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

I’m not the only one to love this quote from Borges: These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its distant pages it is … Continue reading →

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