Recent content by breepf

Godflesh actually reunited to release a pretty good album a year or two ago. In the interim, JK Broadrick was releasing very good heavy shoegaze records as Jesu. Technical death metal has never really been my thing, the more experimental bands excepted. I came of age in the 90s hardcore scene...

Do you listen to contemporary death metal or just old stuff? I've become quite fond of Cave Sermon, an Australian one-man death metal band. And, of course, Blood Incantation. Granted, my metal tastes tend to veer towards the more avant-garde--the two aforementioned bands, Sumac, The Body, etc.

I'm hoping the Catholics can get the Dalai Lama in the transfer portal.

Some podcaster had an interesting take on this issue. High school kids got fucked, but not as badly as dead old people. The problem, though, is that we had no national reckoning with those deaths and no valorization of the personal sacrifices made by, yes, teenagers who lost the "best" years of...

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If you guys hadn't been fucking around so much, you wouldn't have had to find out.

In my experience, Reform Jews resemble mainline Protestants to the extent that both groups subscribe to a muted post-millenialism: the messiah arrives only after we work to make a suitable world for him. This post-millenialism is muted because Reform Jews and the 27 remaining mainline...

Yes, pretty commonplace discovery. Scientists sequenced his DNA and the letters were א גחט.

Please elaborate. I'd like to read more of your well-informed musings on the history of Judaism and Jewishness, particularly as it relates to contemporary American politics.

In the last 48 hours, you've argued that, past and present, black Americans have enjoyed unbelievable and unfair luck. Now some Jews are more Jewish than other Jews. You are an absolute fucking genius.

You're not wrong.

Yes, black people are famous for the good luck they've enjoyed in the US.

It is with a deep and abiding shame that I say that I mostly enjoyed the first Warhammer 40k novel that I read. Granted, it's my understanding that it's one of the most highly recommended Warhammer novels. In sum: military sci-fi that valorizes the martial virtues; self-conscious pretenses to...

I actually agree with this. Likewise, we should endow a new university called Cancer University to stop so many universities from studying such a tiny human problem. Only Cancer U can study cancer! Go fighting Chemotherapies!

Good thinking. The best way to solve the problem is to stop studying it.