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Truncated quotes from both sides now: “with a swipe of my pen”

The New Neo Posted on October 28, 2024 by neoOctober 28, 2024

Please watch this ad: ?HOLY SMOKES? This is the single-most devastating ad for Kamala Harris. Career ending. pic.twitter.com/xflECTCvyt — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 26, 2024 Horrifying, right? As far as I can tell, about 90% of the ad is factual; … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2024, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Law | Tagged Kamala Harris | 47 Replies

Beyoncé at the rally, versus Kundera: to dream the impossible dream of circle dancing

The New Neo Posted on October 28, 2024 by neoOctober 28, 2024

Whose decision was it that Beyoncé appear at Harris’ Houston rally to endorse her but not to sing? Not even one little itty bitty song? After all, isn’t Beyoncé like, you know, a singer? And when singers appear at political … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2024, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Literature and writing, Music, Pop culture | Tagged abortion, Kamala Harris | 15 Replies

Meet violinist Adrian Anantawan, who was born without a right hand

The New Neo Posted on August 17, 2024 by neoAugust 17, 2024

There are some stories that are simply inspiring, and testaments to the human will. The life of Canadian violinist Adrian Anantawan is one such story. He was born with no right hand; you can find a lot of information and … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Health, Music, People of interest | 12 Replies

Does getting older make you care less?

The New Neo Posted on July 26, 2024 by neoJuly 26, 2024

[NOTE: I thought you might enjoy a reprise of this old post.] By the time my mother reached her high 90s, she seemed to care less about everything. Part of this, I’m almost sure, is that she was experiencing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Me, myself, and I, Obama | 71 Replies

Trump, fate, and his convention speech

The New Neo Posted on July 15, 2024 by neoJuly 15, 2024

This is why I put up that clip from The Day of the Jackal yesterday: Former President Donald Trump can’t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2024, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Movies, Trump, Violence | 36 Replies

Thinking about it

The New Neo Posted on July 10, 2024 by neoJuly 10, 2024

In school we are mostly taught to take in information and then give it back in an exam. And that’s important to learn to do in order to have a backlog of knowledge and the ability to negotiate the world. … Continue reading →

Posted in Friendship, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe | 29 Replies

This past Wednesday was the fifteenth anniversary of FredHJr’s death

The New Neo Posted on June 29, 2024 by neoJune 29, 2024

[NOTE: The following is a somewhat revised version of a post that has appeared previously on this blog.] Unbelievable that it’s been fifteen years since commenter FredHJr died suddenly and tragically. As time passes, the number of readers here who … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging and bloggers, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Me, myself, and I, People of interest | 15 Replies

Black hole wakes up

The New Neo Posted on June 21, 2024 by neoJune 21, 2024

How? Why? Here’s what I’m talking about: Suddenly, in late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers used data from several space and ground-based observatories, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Science | 8 Replies

Abortion, the law, and morality

The New Neo Posted on June 14, 2024 by neoJune 14, 2024

Some issues came up about abortion in the comments yesterday, and I think I’ll briefly take up two of them. (1) From “R2L”: I wonder why the standing of the father is so seldom mentioned in these cases and discussions. … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Law, Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex | Tagged abortion | 27 Replies

Rules for pro-Hamas radicals: the circle dance revisited

The New Neo Posted on May 7, 2024 by neoMay 7, 2024

A number of people have suggested I read this Substack essay by Richard Pollock, a left-to-right changer who was an Alinskyite leftist radical back in the 60s and 70s. My impression on reading that one essay is that he’s something … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Israel/Palestine, Liberals and conservatives; left and right, Political changers, Terrorism and terrorists | Tagged Milan Kundera | 36 Replies

Events both inner and outer: how’s it going?

The New Neo Posted on April 22, 2024 by neoApril 22, 2024

For the past few months not only has a lot of the news been extremely depressing, but it’s been appearing on so many fronts that I have at least thirty stories to choose from each day for my blog posts. … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Me, myself, and I, Poetry | 47 Replies

Equality versus freedom

The New Neo Posted on April 15, 2024 by neoApril 15, 2024

It’s been said many times by many people. Solzhenitsyn: Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. And then there’s Robert Frost (in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, Liberty, People of interest | Tagged Robert Frost, Thomas Sowell | 22 Replies

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