Degree Is Shaked
Sociologists note among honor cultures a common tension between “ascribed” and “acquired” honor. By ascribed honor they mean the respect due to the holder of an office or rank, and,… Read more Degree Is Shaked →
Auto Damage: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
Half a lawyer’s job is telling people things they don’t want to hear. For example, most calls I take concerning automobile damage terminate with the complaint that “you’re telling me I’m basically screwed.” Keep reading to find out why I’m usually thinking “yes.” If the cost of repairing a vehicle is less than its fair market value, then the owner is entitled to the cost of repair and related expenses, and to compensation for any depreciation in value. If the cost of repair is greater than the vehicle’s value (i.e.… Read more Auto Damage: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? →
Genesis: Head & Heel
SOUL: And all my care itself employs; That to preserve which me destroys. BODY: What but a soul could have the wit To build me up for sin so fit?… Read more Genesis: Head & Heel →
Footnote to Pignoli and Porn Stars
We have seen in the conservative tradition a tension between abstraction and context, or definition and circumstance, which perhaps has its foundation in the lateralization of the brain. Abstraction has… Read more Footnote to Pignoli and Porn Stars →
Of Pignoli and Porn Stars: Conservatism and the Body
When I learned that Turning Point USA had ejected an electronic sex worker from one of its events, I expected to hear that she had then and there so energetically… Read more Of Pignoli and Porn Stars: Conservatism and the Body →
Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part IX
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan taunted Marxists for paying insufficient attention to words: “Wedded as they are to nineteenth-century industrial technology as the basis of class liberation, nothing could be more… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part IX →
Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VIII
In Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe, Voddie Baucham condemns evangelical sympathy for Critical Race Theory while professing a fundamentalist understanding of “the sufficiency of Scripture”… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VIII →
Woke Smoke
Weed brings people together, you know? “When you meet a new friend in the weed scene, you can bet that the two of you will share many of the same… Read more Woke Smoke →