[beckett]

I thought you might like Reynolds, BB, because he is a well-known defender of 2nd Amendment rights. He's recently become semi-famous as a pioneer in the world of bloggers.

Funny you mention postmodernist blather today, BB, because I just finished reading this article by Dave Kopel of the National Review. Check it out.

[betty boop]

Dear beckett, but this is the very article I was citing in my last to you. Set me off on a whole new line of inquiry to chase down. Really, really good stuff. God bless you for referring me to such excellent material.

Heidegger is a most fascinating character... but then so are all the rest of the "name-droppings" in the piece: Heisenberg, Bohrs, Einstein; Derrida, de Mans; Niebuhr; et al. (Please forgive my untrustworthy spelling.)

Thank you again! Peace and love, bb.

p.s.: Have decided not to go forward with the Schelling on Freedom vs. Necessity. (It would probably cause too much pain in these precincts -- my Libertarian friends would never forgive me.) But might do a piece comparing and contrasting Pascal and Nietzsche -- two world class thinkers of profoundly sensitive religious consciousness who just happened to reach mutually exclusive conclusions. The problem is of tremendous interest; hope maybe I might write about it some time. best, bb.

[beckett]

I just realized your quote was from the same Kopel article I linked you to! I'll be alright as soon as my brain transplant is done, BB.