Wednesday, June 29, 2016

A Computer, a Space Hippy, and the Ubermensch Walk Into A Bar

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Following on my previous analysis of Star Trek TOS as a whole, here, taken pretty much at random (based, that is, on my own personal likes,...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The Original Series and the Myth of Originality

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When I spoke in my last post about Star Trek as a myth, I used that term in a very specific sense: that of a body of stories produced b...
Monday, June 20, 2016

A Brief Introduction to Star Trek

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What is Star Trek? On some level, that's an easy question to answer.  We all know Star Trek: a television show (five television sho...
Monday, April 21, 2014

We Are All Ukrainians

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The more I read and hear, the more I believe that the crisis in Ukraine is of incalculable importance not only for Ukrainians, but for the...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Criticizing Your Mom is not Self-Criticism: A Brief Primer in False Humility

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Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gul Dukat Fairly high on my list of things that make me angry, somewhere in between the perse...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Tales From the Papal Crypt: Pope Martin, Enemy of the State

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Pope Martin I "The police would not allow the holy man to land, though he was suffering severe pain.  Instead they went ash...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Tales From the Papal Crypt: Introduction

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The Papacy is pretty cool.  It also happens to be one of the oldest continuous institutions in Western Civilization.  There has been a...