So we lost a couple of daring men over the weekend. The most famous one was Alan Bean, who walked on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. I remember as a kid watching those walks; it was like watching literal steps into the future. I watched every one of them. Most Americans did not.… Continue reading A good walk spoiled
I was thinking that all of human thought – religion, science, politics, government, philosophy – is about trying to place an orderly system over a world that may simply not have one. Suppose order is simply a momentary state of a permanent anarchy. Life isn’t supposed to make sense. And that got me thinking about… Continue reading Anarchy and the platypus
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