Cybrpnk's Rantings

It's Not About Roe

With today's surprise announcement of the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor we are entering a period of what will probably be intense partisan wrangling over what sort of person should replace her...
Those Awful Liberal Elite

Starting with Ronald Reagan there has been a very public, quite successful campaign by American conservatives to paint liberals as elitists who just want to control how people live their lives...
Why They Hate Derrida

I've been mulling over the recent death of Jacques Derrida, and contemplating why it is that the conservatives I know are so hostile towards the ideas he developed during his lifetime...
Return of the Reformation?

Providence has decreed that my current consumption of literature is centered on Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a work of historical fiction that takes place during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in England and around Europe...
On Doubt And Discourse

As you can tell from the lag since my last posting this one has taken some time to formulate...
Adverse Signal To Noise Ratios

I was quite surprised by the contents of some email I received recently...