A heart-breaking suicide of another abuse victim of the Catholic Church. Pray for him.
DERRIDA EMAILS: Here’s one that provoked a chuckle:
“Re: your post on that totally incomprehensible “Philosophy in a Time of Terror” Habermas Book. That stuff is now so funny to read but it was not so funny when it was crammed down our throats in the “Communications” Dept. at university. Mein Gott in Himmel. I read your excerpt three times just to see if it was possible to grok ANY part it.
Now that I am out in the world and making good use of college-learned skills in my pro career I can look back at the madness of way bitchin 80’s college life with its omnipresent bevy of undergraduate teaching aides who conducted their earnest but indecipherable lectures by day dancing to The Cure or Violent Femmes by nite. I learned other skills in college too, such as “don’t feed marshmellows to grizzly bears” and “if you’re pulled over say the car belongs to her dad and of course she’s 18.” But I digress.”
On the other hand:
No fair giving Derrida your Poseur Alert award! He’s the uber-poseur–giving him this award would be like having an award for pretentious biblical speech and then awarding it to the Bible.
More feedback from the sharpest readers on the web can be read here.
The Dish 