Now Wreaking Slightly Less Evil For a Limited Period
Jan 15In the wake of the earthquake, a number of countries – including the u.s., France, and the Dominican Republic – are calling a temporary halt to the deportation of Haitian immigrants. While this falls far short of the freeing-up of the borders that justice and compassion alike demand, it represents a little bit of very [...]
Liberty 5-3000, Meet Pennsylvania 6-5000
Jan 15Has anyone noticed before that the names in Anthem are all in the format of old-style telephone exchanges? Also, Directive 10-289 from Atlas can be converted to the same format just by shifting the hyphen. Now all we need is a song titled “Union 7-5309.”
Float Time
Jan 15A lot of Randians seem to think that the phrase and concept “floating abstraction” is specific to Rand; but in fact the term “floating abstraction” (or, more commonly, “free-floating abstraction”), often (though not always) meaning something actually fairly close to what Rand meant by it, is quite common in Continental and leftist thought, showing up [...]
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