Mosque of the Red Death
Aug 23Ron Paul vs. Rand Paul on the non-Ground-Zero non-mosque. How come whenever Rand Paul deviates from Ron Paul it’s always in the wrong direction?
This is Your Brain on Stateless News
Aug 23Some C4SS-related items worth checking out: [Note that this does not mean that other C4SS-related items not listed here are not worth checking out!] Kevin Carson on The Cognitive Biases of Hierarchy. (Turns out that power makes you stupid.) Charles Johnson on Is the Problem Really Too Little Trust in Government? (Can you guess [...]
Dinner With the Doctor
Aug 23I know some of my readers regard even idle speculation as spoilerrific, so … SPOILER WARNING: Neil Gaiman is writing an episode for next season’s Doctor Who. (Yay!) He’s had to cut over ten pages out of it. (Boo!) He’s posted online a bit of dialogue that was cut. (Yay!) Gaiman says this is spoiler-free, [...]
Insofar As They’re Beings, Yes
Aug 20Exchange last night in the elevator: MY INTERLOCUTOR: What’s your field of study? ME: Philosophy. MY INTERLOCUTOR: Does that study, like, rocks and stuff?
Why Opponents of the Non-Ground-Zero Non-Mosque Are Tools For Al-Qaeda
Aug 19Al-Qaeda seeks to combat the idea that people of different religions can live harmoniously together in the same society. The anti-mosqueteers are certainly doing their best to combat this idea as well. Al-Qaeda seeks to subordinate private property rights to religious law. This is exactly what the anti-mosqueteers do when they declare other people’s property [...]
A Puzzlement
Aug 18I don’t get it. If Laura Schlessinger says “I’m Laura Schlessinger,” she gets no flak for it; everyone takes it in stride. But if I say the very same thing, people act like I’ve uttered some huge falsehood. Why the double standard?
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