The Reader in the Striped Pajamas
Feb 17, 2009 movies
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated every January 27th. The day often re-ignites discussions over what should be done with the old Nazi death camps: should Auschwitz and Dachau be left to rot, reclaimed by nature, or actively maintained as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust? Survivors, whose opinions here should trump all, have [...]
Tags: Germany, Hollywood, Holocaust, Nazism, The Reader
Brief Discursus on Luck
Feb 9, 2009 philosophy
I’m told that good Christians don’t believe in luck. I am not a good Christian. But I am one, and I do believe in luck. In fact, misunderstanding luck may lead to illogical reasoning and illogical behavior. Luck is simply this: the improbable becoming actuality. The modifiers “good” & “bad” are not absolute, but do [...]