Thinking Snurp-Style

Sartre, Jean Paul. No Exit and Three Other Plays . New York: Vintage Books, 1989. I The sky above Argos, even when the sun is shining, hangs...

This year’s 9/11 has had a different tone than in years past, enough to take notice. In previous years 9/11 was a very straightforward day:...

Sartre, Jean Paul. No Exit and Three Other Plays . New York: Vintage Books, 1989. I So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remem...

Sartre, Jean Paul. Nausea . New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1964. I Antoine Roquentin is a man with a problem: he sees thin...

I'm still here, and in fact I'm about to move in a wholly new direction. Blogwise, it's actually something of a return to form,...

It’s small, made of hard plastic, and has “Don’t Panic” in large, friendly letters on its cover. In fact, it seems a lot like the sorts of ...

We all know from the television ads you see late at night that there are a lot of starving children out there. We also know that not most o...

There was once a time, not too long ago, when time itself was something that we had precious little of. Back in the height of the industria...

It seems strange when you give it some thought. Small towns, it is said, vote conservative, by which is usually meant Republican. Partly t...

I What is American culture? Since this blog will probably be read by Americans for the most part, it seems relevant. Given the American, o...