Monthly Archives: August 2007

Ethics in Alabama, Anarchy in Baltimore

30th
Aug. × ’07

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] 1. More about my Krakow trip soon (really!). But in the meantime, here’s the Spooner paper I gave at the Krakow conference. It’s also the paper I’m going to present at the Molinari Society meeting in December. 2. Speaking of the Molinari Society, it’ll be holding its fourth annual Symposium [...]

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Nullify That Self-Externalization, Baby

27th
Aug. × ’07

My favourite Hegel quote: What Mind Is. From our point of view mind has for its presupposition Nature, of which it is the truth, and for that reason its absolute prius. In this its truth Nature is vanished, and mind has resulted as the ‘Idea’ entered on possession of itself. Here the subject and object [...]

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Hwæt the Heck?

27th
Aug. × ’07

Amazon’s description of Christian Wolff’s Real Happiness of a People Under a Philosophical King reads as follows: 1750. This work is demonstrated not only from the nature of things, but from the undoubted experience of the Chinese under their first Founder Fohi, and his illustrious successors, Hoam Ti and Xin Num. Added to this dissertation [...]

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No Wonder Michael Rennie Was Ill

27th
Aug. × ’07

A “good choice”? Keanu Reeves is a “good choice” to play Klaatu in a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still? No. I’m sorry. No. And why does The Day the Earth Stood Still need a remake anyway? It’s like an (original) Twilight Zone episode. It’s stark and perfect. Leave it alone.

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Captains Courageous

24th
Aug. × ’07

On the left is the first DC comic I ever bought. On the right is the first Marvel comic I ever bought. Trying to detect a pattern here ….

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So Dark the Disappointment of Man

18th
Aug. × ’07

The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre are the two most disappointing tourist destinations in the world, according to this poll. I can see why the reportedly glacially slow process of ascending the Tower might detract from some tourists’ enjoyment, though I don’t think it would from mine (I’ve been to it but not yet up [...]

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