I just spent two hours trying to write up a piece on J.S. Mill's Of the Composition of Causes, but got lost and forgot what I was trying to demonstrate with it. Whatevs. I liked studying it at least. Interesting stuff. I really want to be able to put something together though, since emergentism is a hot topic and I haven't really seen anyone discussion the British empiricist tradition surrounding the topic.

I got some Austrian red wine to explore my alcohol heritage.

Hm... while German and Austrian Riesling is good, it appears that that too much blood from too many wars has soaked into to many fields for Austrian red wine to taste like anything but rich, smoky death.

It even looks like blood mixed with muddy water.

Intriguing, yes.

Revolting? Absolutely.

Yet it still captures me with the same existential angst that death does.

I can see Roman feet sludging through the mud as bodies lie all about and fires burn reluctantly against the gray, misty rains.

Hot vapors of death choke and burn my throat...

This is terrible!

Mmmm... more...