Category Archives: Splendor!

Watch me surf my own elation.Photo by: Spirit-FireI’m in love with the ideas of exuberance and indomitability. In the videos I have made in the three years since Man Alive was published, I’ve made a stout effort to illuminate what … Continue reading →

Reposted from September 24, 2012. Cum taces, clamas. Daniel Pipes (by way of Kathy Shaidle): In brief, any Westerner can buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into … Continue reading →

Instead of repeatedly and resentfully failing to change things with the same old failed tactics, the much-reviled Koch Brothers are pursuing a true strategy with our new undocumented friends, who may soon be newly-anointed voters. In this week’s Church of … Continue reading →

I’ve been pondering deliberate thoughtlessness — and so far my brain has not imploded. I came up with that turn of phrase — deliberate thoughtlessness — as a way of describing the amazing ineptitude of the ruling class. As you … Continue reading →

Welfare clients and other people who adopt their values are being judged just as Martin Luther King asked fifty years ago today: Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.paulbence / Foter / CC … Continue reading →

Outliers are not worth thinking about. What’s worth thinking about is what is normal.Human beings thrive in families. Yelling at that fact will not change it. Sunday’s homily, Defending normality by NOT celebrating diversity, manages to connect Bruce Jenner’s coming … Continue reading →

Revenge of the Nerd: “Hate me harder so I can win even more.”Life is a benedy, y’all, and the only newspaper-news worth attending to is good news. The best news in the week just past? Poker pro and currency trader … Continue reading →

You are a moth ramming a sheet of plate glass again and again, insisting by your behavior that the glass must somehow give way eventually.The pitch… That’s a sweet offer in the headline, don’t you think? It’s like Batman meets … Continue reading →

Celebrating three years of Man Alive and the first year of The Church of Splendor with a recounting of the rules I live my intellectual life by. These are the five (so far) rules of The Church of Splendor: 1. … Continue reading →

Man Alive is three years old today, Easter Sunday 2015. Here I am rehabilitating the idea of reverence as an essential experience in the fully-human life. Why is there a Church of Splendor, an egoist, atheist church? Because we don’t … Continue reading →

So what should you do – to make the most and the best of your one, irreplaceable, finite, uniquely-human life? That’s easy: Love your self.Photo by: Dmitry KichenkoMan Alive will be three years old Easter Sunday. When I wrote the … Continue reading →

Your world is in ruins, if it is, not because the universe is malevolent and not because somebody done you wrong. Your life is chaos – or you fear that it soon might be – because you have failed to … Continue reading →

By now, I hope you know that the proper rejoinder to a ludicrous proposition put forth by a government functionary wearing a lab coat is to say, at full voice, “Say WHAT?!?” Don’t be shy. You’re not being anti-intellectual – … Continue reading →

“Fifty years from now you two could still be together, surrounded by everything you love, all because you won this trophy of your affection for her today…” And that is closing like a carney, with an empathy for that particular … Continue reading →