The Quotidian (formerly the Diurnal Journal): February 2009

February 12, 2009

"There is a grandeur in this view of life…"

Today is Charles Darwin's birthday.

Things have definitely changed since he was born.

February 09, 2009

camellia

February 03, 2009

Three Quarters of Football

The MSM is in lock-step, reporting that the Pittsburh Steelers "won" the Super Bowl the other day, beating the Arizona Cardinals by the score of 27-23, just one more instance of the Rust Belt bias of the old line liberal media with its historic East Coast Regionalist anti-American Desert leanings, is what I say. Reports that the Steelers "won" clash with the view of anyone who sees through the MSM's distortion field to what really happened: the Cardinals, pride of the Southwest, covered the 6½ point spread, but does the MSM bother to put that in your headline? Ha! Tell me what the score was while I wave this pile of bills in your face, NYT!

Arizonans hoping for a clearer Cardinals victory, local pride assuaged, the small comfort of being able to say, "O, rest of the nation, you've got your President Hussein Obamination, sure our guy took a pounding there, but we've got THE SUPERBOWL TROPHY BITCHESZZZZ!!!!11!!," saw those hopes evaporate, yes.

And, thirdly, Evangelicals eager to see their man Kurt Warner at the end of the game pointing a finger up to indicate to whom by the grace of which and all, instead watched devout Kurt Warner get totally punked by Touchdown Jesus. That pass, the one Warner threw, the one run back the entire length of the field for a Pittsburgh touchdown? A lesson to every Evangelical, and I'm pretty sure the last time any of them ever prays directly to Touchdown Jesus to intervene in Kurt Warner's life, if they knows what's good for him, is all I'm saying.

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For some years now I've travelled bumptiously about the internet commenting on other people's blogs under the pseudonym "peter ramus," pointedly and I regret to say at times heatedly disclosing the general shape my own intricately devised misapprehension of current events in contradistinction to the remarkable torrent of misapprehensions made known daily on that medium by everyone else.

Nominally I associate myself as much as possible with the views of those who seem to know what they're talking about, but often enough I find myself obliged, like so many others, to go on about things I'm not in the least qualified to address simply because it is my way when the opportunity presents itself. I find this shortcoming as personally irritating as it is to those I've favored it with over the years, an as yet irrepressible feature of my discourse. Thus the admittedly defensive assumption of the nom de blog, "peter ramus."

"peter ramus" isn't to be confused with Peter Ramus, another fellow entirely, who lived and died a long time ago around the sad times leading up to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France, an event which saw his own undoing in the chaotic days that followed.

He was a zeolot, Peter Ramus was. He had a particular bone to pick with Aristotle over the stuff and substance of rhetoric, which led him to propose revolutionary changes in the subject and manner of teaching which prevailed in higher education in those times. A quaestio was convened, a solemn gathering of all the branches of civil society, to see what was to be done about him. The King sent a man, and the Church sent a man, and of course the University of Paris couldn't help but send one, too. Unsurprisingly, they found overwhelmingly in favor of Aristotle and against Peter Ramus. In addition, it pleased the members of the assembled body to pronounce Peter Ramus personally disagreeable and notably ugly to boot. Strictly as an aside.

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