tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113758172011-08-16T23:04:17.130-04:00philosophy, politics, theology, etcetera...Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.comBlogger3141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-50527440325306637732009-12-15T17:53:00.042-05:002009-12-15T20:33:21.240-05:00

I periodically revisit some of the questions raised by meta-ethics in an attempt to better understand morality per se. This is one such occasion. Suppose that there is general agreement that by "objective" we mean "existing independent of thought or an observer as part of reality" and by "subjective" we mean "existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-77429067477671073562009-09-11T09:11:00.001-04:002009-09-11T09:13:04.714-04:00

Not unlike “free lunches” and “honest politicians” and “a right to healthcare”…the Senate Filibuster is apparently a myth.tip: Megan McArdle

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My seventeen-year-old son turned me on to a fascinating book entitled House of Leaves. This is the most original book I've ever read (am reading). It's a visceral meta-novel: the unorthodox typography and constantly shifting narrative - which echoes the plot - causes the story to be almost...experienced.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-83839833087619778202009-08-15T12:22:00.020-04:002009-08-15T22:46:19.097-04:00

I recently posed the following question: Assuming for argument's sake that divine foreknowledge exists, does it meaningfully preclude the free exercise of the will? If not, why?. The responses were thoughtful and reflect a deeply-held intuition, namely that free will is a given, divine omniscience notwithstanding. The impetus for the question was my reading of an article in the Stanford

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-70905863090852922322009-08-13T12:05:00.001-04:002009-08-13T12:06:45.598-04:00

Well, no one really knows, but this video sheds light.

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...makes libertopia a dull blog.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1656615195270726112009-07-03T13:16:00.001-04:002009-07-03T13:18:54.521-04:00

Alice, I knew you were talented, but your latest creations are phenomenal. Your style aligns perfectly with my personal taste: my house has sort of a minimalist, naturalistic theme with lots of stained wood and earth tones. I might just be your next customer. I'm tempted to say that you're 'gifted'...but that would presuppose a giver-of-gifts. Regardless, I'm awed by your craftsmanship.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-29170890605059429732009-06-21T15:57:00.000-04:002009-06-21T15:58:22.292-04:00

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.""Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself." "Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-16794635675596072752009-06-17T12:20:00.005-04:002009-06-17T12:28:23.921-04:00

I’m fascinated with moral philosophy, and lately it’s really been at the forefront of my thinking. Just recently, on my neglected facebook page, Chris called to my attention a discussion about the basis of our moral judgments, from the point of view of evolutionary psychology. I replied that I thought that there were some problems with the reasoning, but haven’t yet made the time to explore those

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-29388067417399556182009-06-02T13:58:00.004-04:002009-06-02T14:07:03.582-04:00

The very concept of race is incoherent: sure, there are superficial differences that can be emphasized among our species, but there are also innumerable shades of gray between black and white…a point which Kenan Malik makes quite eloquently.While I may disagree with President Obama’s political philosophy—specifically on the economy and the precise size, scope, and role of government—I’m delighted

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-65945270056395700292009-06-02T09:01:00.004-04:002009-06-02T09:03:41.021-04:00

At the risk of overexposing Paul Bloom, I thought I would share this lovely conversation between…Bloom, Yale psych prof, author, etc. and Yale colleague, Tamar Szabo Gendler, a philosopher, Chair of the Cognitive Science Program, etc.One topic that I found particularly interesting was concerned with epistemology. Specifically, Gendler proposed a new word, “alief”, to describe ideas and concepts

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-21536549594905393642009-06-01T10:39:00.011-04:002009-06-01T10:53:03.275-04:00

Alice asked if I think about the existence of God in the same way that Anselm did, and I’m more than happy to respond, as this involves two of my favorite interests: theology and philosophy. I think that Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of God is interesting—if only because it was a more or less novel attempt to use reason and logic to ‘prove’ the existence of God. That said,

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-87338252553072067772009-05-20T23:36:00.000-04:002009-05-20T23:37:37.889-04:00

"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself." -Bertrand Russell

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-19763920743019510982009-05-19T14:43:00.006-04:002009-05-19T17:02:18.309-04:00

These are a few of my favorite things: philosophy, theology, epistemology, psychology…and the supposed evolutionary origins of each.Michael Murray, a philosopher at the Templeton Foundation, is a self-described theist who subscribes, more or less, to the idea that everyone is born with a ‘god-shaped void’ which becomes occupied by God when one believes. Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-53165982951470031342009-05-13T20:29:00.003-04:002009-05-13T20:38:40.391-04:00

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-77319359795314236412009-05-12T13:38:00.001-04:002009-05-12T13:39:33.481-04:00

I’m a little more than half-way through Darwin’s Origin of Species and I came across, in the chapter on instinct, a fascinating account of slave-making ants. Who knew?I’ll forego a feeble attempt to do justice to Darwin’s description of this phenomenon and just quote him instead:This remarkable instinct was first discovered in the Formica (Polyerges) rufescens by Pierre Huber, a better observer

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-84317014188003775272009-05-07T21:55:00.038-04:002009-05-07T22:58:16.694-04:00

As I mentioned in Part I, this installment will focus on epistemology, which is a branch of philosophy that is concerned primarily with various theories of knowledge. More specifically, epistemologists try to get at the nature of justified true belief (JTB), which many—but not all—in the field take to be synonymous with knowledge.But there’s a notable challenge to the idea that JTB is sufficient

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-35206052607701883842009-05-06T23:37:00.004-04:002009-05-07T08:37:52.279-04:00

Occasionally I feel the need to revisit (and refine) my thoughts on morality—or ‘moral intuition’. My last attempt was this post, in which I wrote:• Moral Equivalence: the position that, in a conflict, there can be no “hierarchy” with respect to the ethical nature of the actions of the parties involved.• Moral Relativism: the position that there are “no absolutes” with respect to moral

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-63305875800507657522009-05-01T23:49:00.002-04:002009-05-01T23:53:30.767-04:00

This discussion—occasioned by this book, which I can’t wait to read—is a must for those on the far right, the far left, and everyone else with an operable cognitive faculty…not to put too fine a point on it.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-80940285324600144042009-04-23T08:49:00.001-04:002009-04-23T08:57:06.505-04:00

Julian Sanchez:In a pure libertopia, the Market will be so efficient as to dispense with the need for human intermediaries, like a Lovecraftian Elder God who casts aside the husk of an avatar to bestow the touch of madness with its own deathless tentacles.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-3100192995932681622009-04-16T12:15:00.003-04:002009-04-16T12:25:33.873-04:00

This is an insightful dialogue about the cognitive science of religion; or, the cognitive architecture that may underlie intuitions regarding (supposed) supernatural phenomena.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-43923240510545071342009-03-12T22:03:00.001-04:002009-03-12T22:05:36.867-04:00

So, by way of adding to my chronicle, I just finished Synaptic Self by Joseph LeDoux. It deftly deals with the extremely complex nature of mental mechanisms, ranging from neurophysiology to bio-chemistry, from psychology to psychotropic drugs.Since there are already several good reviews, I’ll just quote a passage from the last chapter, which touches on some of the topics covered throughout—to

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-89720661261074882312009-02-21T11:51:00.026-05:002009-02-21T12:47:41.589-05:00

The results of a 2006 survey suggest that, “while most U.S. adults believe in God, only 58 percent are "absolutely certain". However, in an identical survey conducted just three years earlier, “79 percent of adults said they believed in God and 66 percent said they were absolutely certain that there is a God. In this new survey, those numbers have declined to 73 percent and 58 percent

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-68152753005963823702009-02-12T21:45:00.006-05:002009-02-12T21:54:35.799-05:00

Ladies and gentlemen, President F'n Obama.h/t: Chris Wilson

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-57378834032789045092009-02-11T01:53:00.004-05:002009-02-11T02:00:17.202-05:00

…to counter the mind-numbing post below, try this IQ-enhancing Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem.For more of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s insightful and enlightened musings on all things rational, check out Overcoming Bias.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-10542284292164899182009-02-09T23:30:00.005-05:002009-02-09T23:34:50.157-05:00

…your IQ will decrease markedly if you watch this:In The Know: Are Reality Shows Setting Unrealistic Standards For Skanks?

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-2744531448908686672009-02-07T22:46:00.006-05:002009-02-07T22:54:44.101-05:00

…your own words could come back to bite you in the ass.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-73094209615098764612009-02-02T00:06:00.000-05:002009-02-02T00:07:51.102-05:00

Although I no longer partake of the delivery system for THC, I whole-heartedly endorse this (faux) open letter.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-15523526362716462772009-02-01T23:16:00.006-05:002009-02-01T23:25:01.953-05:00

I am an unapologetic theist, if a non-traditional one (and I still, on principle, refuse to indoctrinate my kids). That said, I followed with interest a Michael Drake post that gives as good as it gets (in the comments, which I joined) with respect to this age old debate. This comment is, I think, particularly insightful and deserves to be seriously considered…by all sides: This seems to reduce

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-82902071982929087132009-01-21T21:53:00.005-05:002009-01-24T10:45:37.804-05:00

Now this is just silly:WASHINGTON—Network news cameras covering Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony Tuesday captured Hillary Clinton silently moving her lips along with each word of the minute-long presidential oath of office. As she stood watching several yards from Chief Justice John Roberts, the former Democratic presidential candidate could be observed placing her left hand on a leather

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-38455821508438066662009-01-15T23:13:00.016-05:002009-02-07T20:14:16.916-05:00

So, as I was saying, I plan to chronicle the books that I’ve yet to read, but first I need to list the most recent—the ones that I actually own, those that comprise my growing collection. And as the title suggests, the list will contain only the books that I read in 2008, as this is when I started buying books in earnest. It begins with the last thing I've read and works backward, ending with the

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-6827046907125518482009-01-15T21:24:00.006-05:002009-01-15T22:56:31.503-05:00

I attempted to post a the following review of Chris Wilson's Healing the Unhappy Caveman on Amazon, but it's not yet appeared. So, in the meantime, I'll post it here. (You’ll recall that Chris is an old blog buddy.)This is, without question, a thinking person’s book. The subject matter ranges from the philosophical (reason, the nature of truth, and applied ethics) to the scientific (evolution,

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-22446938205015143932009-01-07T01:16:00.003-05:002009-01-07T23:37:50.844-05:00

I’ve been on a book binge...since I moved to New Jersey in the Spring of 2006, that is. That said, I was recently reminded of this old post, a book meme that was going around when I first started blogging back in 2005. Interestingly enough, I’ve reconsidered my former aversion to book buying and have begun a collection that promises to (eventually) become a decent home library. I plan to

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-12868206091025366422008-12-24T13:26:00.005-05:002009-01-06T21:40:10.483-05:00

…peace, love and this Reason article? Jacob Sullum, a practicing Jew, finds it “remarkable how many people at this time of year will insist with a straight face that they are celebrating a secular winter holiday season, when the reason for the season—the birth of the Christian Savior, whom his followers believe to be the Son of God—is about as religious as things get.”In one sense this is

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-58037660444768814622008-12-22T22:41:00.018-05:002008-12-24T15:05:06.013-05:00

Pastor Rick Warren is, according to Rod Dreher, a “moderate” in the…flaming debate over gay marriage. How’s that, you ask? Well, because the majority, of which Rick Warren is a member in good standing, has spoken. After all, if “two-thirds of all Americans with an opinion on the subject are against same-sex marriage”, who could reasonably object? Well, I suppose it could be argued that if

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-88755004471030067152008-12-10T00:37:00.002-05:002008-12-10T00:39:41.916-05:00

At long last, a little truth in advertizing.thx to MM

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-38413789227787747942008-12-08T00:17:00.004-05:002008-12-08T00:21:56.033-05:00

My old blog buddy Chris Wilson, a.k.a. The Enlightened Caveman, has been published!Also, do check out the blog.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-51998079267257480222008-11-29T16:56:00.006-05:002008-12-20T10:58:39.015-05:00

This is a fascinating discussion on one the most sensitive and often misunderstood issues of our time: Race.Kenan Malik’s three books are superb. After reading Strange Fruit I was so impressed that I immediately picked-up the other two. I was not disappointed.Via Kerry Howley.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-59375250346908427552008-11-28T22:46:00.006-05:002008-11-29T16:51:56.161-05:00

I just finished an old book on epistemology called Kowledge and Truth (here’s a partial review) that sort of took an odd turn at the end: the author suggests that aesthetics, and works of art in particular can express truth, whereas propositional truth is to be found in statements or assertions. I’ll reserve judgment, for now, as to whether or not art can be objective, or truth-bearing in a

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-11109751377113598522008-11-24T22:21:00.000-05:002008-11-24T22:22:32.744-05:00

This NewScientist article is…unbelievable? The lede is nothing if not attention-grabbing:Matter is built on flaky foundations. Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.via Julian Sanchez

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-84032414888072194562007-05-26T14:16:00.000-04:002007-05-26T14:17:08.598-04:00

I’ve all but dropped out of the blogger set (new girl, new job, no time), though I do still read and comment on others’ posts with semi-regularity.If you’re looking for fresh-ish stuff from me, you can find it at my clone.If you’re looking for quality libertarian writing (occasionally from me), you can find it at The Liberty Papers.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1170093365439597732007-01-29T12:55:00.000-05:002007-01-29T12:56:30.066-05:00

This condom ad is especially clever.

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1170013936666556092007-01-28T14:50:00.000-05:002007-01-28T19:57:23.270-05:00

According to the Lovenstein Institute - and popular opinion – President Bush is a dim-wit.Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has published it's research to the education community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others. According to statements in the report, there have been twelve presidents over the past 50 years, from F. D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush who were

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GAWKER has a list of “tired clichés popping up in the same media outlets”, which includes blogs. Here's a sampling:What's next? [outlandish scenario]?Take something you don't like, then imagine a nutty alternate universe where that thing is exaggerated beyond all reason. One must follow from the other, correct? Your rhetorical work here is done.FTW, O RLY, lol, FTL, OMG, FWIW, btw, PWND, ROTFL,

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1165286047288015792006-12-04T21:32:00.000-05:002006-12-04T21:35:06.823-05:00

Randall McElroy demonstrates the absurdity of the Nanny State:According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, kids today see too much advertising in general, and specifically too many advertisements for things that promote fun, such as e.d. drugs and alcohol. Consider this absurd statement:"We’d like to see more birth control ads,” Strasburger said, “and less ads for erectile dysfunction drugs

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1165188237871567702006-12-03T18:22:00.000-05:002006-12-03T18:25:51.463-05:00

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."The South The Midland The Northeast Philadelphia The West Boston North Central

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Despite the dearth of positive political buzz, I’ve long been skeptical of John McCain’s fitness for high office. One reason is that he’s a proud, big-government Republican; another is articulated here. I’m not alone:Goldwater, a man who seemed to emanate from Arizona's dust, was the paragon of limited government, believing to his core that the feds shouldn't tell you how to run a business or

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1164501748710721022006-11-25T19:42:00.000-05:002006-11-25T19:42:59.186-05:00

Adam Selene, over at The Liberty Papers, persuasively makes the case for political change...do yourself a favor and check it out!

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1164335163465786612006-11-23T21:25:00.000-05:002006-11-23T21:41:39.920-05:00

I highly recommend an old—though quite relevant—post by Will Wilkinson that examines the behavior of a class of people that I’ll call “unbelieving believers”.Many of us believe that we believe because the social and psychological benefits of appearing to be a believer seem to us greater than the costs, and the most compelling way to appear a believer, but to avoid the behavioral costs of actual

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1163724909847845012006-11-16T19:54:00.000-05:002006-11-16T19:58:27.643-05:00

Brian Caplan has an interesting series of posts that deal with Analytical Egalitarianism (AE), which he characterizes as follows:Proposition 1. All people are equally talented and have the same preferences.Proposition 2. If people do have unequal talents or different preferences, these are ENTIRELY the result of environmental differences.Proposition 3. If there are any innate/genetic differences

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1162993466597242842006-11-08T08:15:00.000-05:002006-11-08T08:47:59.153-05:00

…for gridlock! That is, I realized that a Democrat-led House was a foregone conclusion; and here in New Jersey (a veritable suburb of Manhattan) the Dems are a lock. So, I held my nose and voted for the Republican Senatorial candidate, Tom Kean Jr., in the vain hope that the two houses of Congress would spend their time bickering with one another, instead of spending our money and/or finding

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1162078431532139482006-10-28T19:33:00.000-04:002006-10-28T19:33:51.550-04:00

NJ high court rules on same-sex marriage:Forty-five states have laws or constitutional amendments barring gay marriage. New Jersey has neither. The case the New Jersey court ruled on Wednesday was filed on behalf of seven gay couples who argued that being denied the right to marry violated equal-protection guarantees in the state's constitution. "Although we cannot find that a fundamental right

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1161452177257284732006-10-21T13:33:00.000-04:002006-10-21T13:43:28.996-04:00

UK John has linked to Ekklesia, the website of a self-described “progressive think-tank that promotes radical theological ideas in public life”, which has an article that is befitting such an institution. The article’s lead is nothing if not attention-grabbing:A new Bible translation is causing controversy after it cut out difficult parts surrounding economic justice, possessions and money.The

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There’s a fun piece in the Weekly Standard, a proudly conservative magazine, about the unlikely gubernatorial candidate: Kinky Friedman.Kinky (so named for his "Jew-fro," as the ladies at Supercuts call it) is most famous these days for trying to become the first independent governor of Texas since Sam Houston in 1859. For two decades prior, he was known for his 17 well-reviewed comic-mystery

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From the BBC:Armed robbers have stolen the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, from the Munch Museum in Norway.Despite this traumatic experience, according to the Onion, “The Scream Returns From Two-Year Vacation Relaxed.”Before: After:

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Check out the McCain-Feingold Iron Curtain Roundup. Remember McCain-Feingold, aka the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002? It’s that lovely little law that once threatened to silence the political blogosphere 60 days prior to an election and does prohibit “broadcast advertising that contains criticism of members of Congress seeking re-election in November.”[h/t Coyote Blog]

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Well, it looks as though Radly Balko’s relentless coverage of a horrible miscarriage of justice has finally paid off:“Cory Maye will not sleep on death row tonight. Nor, for that matter, any night for the foreseeable future.”A while back, I mentioned Maye’s story (here), with more links to others’ thoughts on the subject.

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Moral arguments invoke a worldview. Consequently, most moral arguments attempt to demonstrate that the worldview is internally consistent and valid. This is deep philosophical territory, and so most moral arguments try to get mileage by being simple. Unfortunately, one of the side effects of simplification is that the arguer is dismissed from questioning his worldview. Consequently, the

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1158410029790860952006-09-16T08:33:00.000-04:002006-09-16T08:39:15.960-04:00

According to a Washington Post article, the Republican-dominated Congress is ignoring a CBO study on the economic impact of immigration.Would offering undocumented immigrants a path to legalization bust the federal budget? Critics of the Senate immigration bill, which seeks to crack down on illegal immigration while giving many currently undocumented workers a chance to work legally in this

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Lindsay Beyerstein, of Majikthise, apparently thinks that Hillary Clinton isn’t “a real liberal”.Clinton's anonymous friends seem to know her much better than the public at large. She's a center-right Democrat who gets along really well with Republicans. The right wing noise machine has convinced the public that Hillary is some kind of liberal firebrand. If we're going to nominate a candidate

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1157293291179560152006-09-03T10:21:00.000-04:002006-09-03T10:26:02.850-04:00

If you’re a fan of Denis Leary, normblog is the place to go for a fix. One of Norm’s posts about Leary, which first appeared a couple of years ago, quoted Leary:That's what they do, man. They go into rehab and they come out and they blame everybody except themselves. They blame their parents, right? That's the way. Everybody comes from a dysfunctional family all of [a] sudden, huh? Rosanne Barr

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According to ABC News, Republican Katherine Harris has made “comments which she clarified Saturday in the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention, which interviewed political candidates and asked them about religion and their positions on issues.”U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is "a lie" and God

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Norman Geras of normblog hit the nail on the head with his post entitled Non-speech is free:It's one thing to criticize apologists for terrorism. It's quite another to demand of anybody that they speak out about terrorism (or about anything else) as a condition of being 'tolerated'. This is what Ginny Dougary does apparently demand:If the Muslims who choose to live in our society, with all its

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As my oldest son Kelsey prepares to enter high school, I’m reminded of myself: a stubborn, individualistic teen-ager. I was above average, but certainly not the smartest, most motivated kid in class; some of those kids were, however, my closest friends. But back to my son: from our library, he recently borrowed Ayn Rand’s The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature. I’ve not read it,

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Moses may not have said it, but Jason Roth did.3. Thou shalt not practice mindless rituals your parents taught you because you're scared shitless to question anything important.By the way, I’m not dead…I’ve just been preoccupied with my new love, my new job and my new environment. Life doesn’t suck. Oh yeah…my son Kelsey—a bright, albeit silly fourteen-year-old—has started blogging.

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Over at CATO@LIBERTY Radly Balco says that Congressman James—snitch or do time—Sensenbrenner now wants your cache.He must be a DNC plant, determined to sabotage the Republican Party in an election year. What else could possibly explain such an asinine proposal? Oh yeah, I almost forgot…the RNC is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley.

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Today marks the end of my second week in New Jersey. Last week I had the opportunity to get acclimated to my new environment (an unpaid vacation) and I got to spend time with Stacy. It was a much-needed break.Training for my new job started on Monday of this week; it went very well. For the first two days, I was in Dover, DE. I drove back to Jersey Tuesday night, then I drove to Trevose, PA

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My eldest son Kelsey is growing up much too quickly; he starts high school next year! Over all, he’s a great kid, and he seems to be handling puberty fairly well...the occasional mood swing / attitude problem notwithstanding.I’m particularly proud of Kelsey’s academic performance this year. In addition to earning As and Bs, he was promoted to AP courses shortly after classes began and he—on his

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I’ve not exactly hidden the fact that I’m a Christian, but I am sadly atypical. Having said that, I’d like to mention something that Randall McElroy recently wrote:I’ve never been too sympathetic to the argument that people can choose to be homosexual (and hence, can choose not to). I know I couldn’t choose to be gay. Think about it. Could you choose to be gay? If you already are, I find it

Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344357253669899950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11375817.post-1145407608549607792006-04-18T20:46:00.000-04:002006-04-18T20:47:56.370-04:00

It’s a sad day in Blogistan, because Eric will Grumble no more. You see, I am one of Eric’s blog children, which means that he—more than anyone else—inspired me to begin blogging. He’ll be missed, but hopefully his archives will remain for a while. So, go catch-up on some good liberty-minded essays before they’re gone!

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…spending a weekend with Stacy in New Jersey, my soon-to-be home state. We had a wonderful time, which simply cannot be conveyed through photos, but…here are two that hint at just how enjoyable this past weekend was.

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Jim Henley rang a bell, and his readers salivated.It’s actually quite clever…and many of the responses are very funny, in a cerebral, blog-junkie sort of way.

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Are you a critical thinker? Do you value rational thought processes and the proper use of logic? If so, then you ought to check out Chris Wilson’s logical fallacies cheat sheet. Review it carefully, for there will be a quiz. In the words of Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold): ”Learn it; know it; live it.”

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Everyone…this is Stacy, my new Love.[click on image to enlarge]

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What can I tell you…life is good. Scratch that—life is great! Yesterday was quite the eventful day; it was a day of firsts and potential stressors: I flew for the first time…ever. I know, I’m a late bloomer. Anyway, that which necessitated the flight was an interview for a job with a prominent architectural and engineering firm that’s based in Wilmington, Delaware. However, the actual job

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David Friedman counters a common anti-immigration argument—the one that suggests that immigrants will be a net cost to the U.S. economy, vis-à-vis entitlements—with a good argument for “open immigration”.The existence of a welfare state may indeed make open immigration less attractive. But the existence of open immigration also makes a welfare state less attractive—which, for those who disapprove

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STAMFORD, CT—In response to criticism over World Wrestling Entertainment hiring policies, World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon defended the league's reliance on Mexican wrestlers as "the only way fans can witness the grueling, bone-crunching maneuvers that American wrestlers want nothing to do with."McMahon made the remarks after the Border Patrol, an unaffiliated Texas-based tag

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Stephen Gordon at Hammer Of Truth has a couple of posts (here and here) that betray the Republican Party’s penchant for paternalistic drug laws and their abysmal record of defending individual liberty.After considering that most Republicans in Congress favor the continued death and suffering of medical marijuana patients coupled to these calls for the death penalty for recreational use, I retract

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There’s an interesting, though lengthy SEED article about neurogenesis, which highlights the work of Elizabeth Gould of Princeton’s Department of Psychology.The social implications of this research are staggering. If boring environments, stressful noises, and the primate’s particular slot in the dominance hierarchy all shape the architecture of the brain—and Gould’s team has shown that they

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Ben Meyers of Faith and Theology has a link to a novel site, wherein one can repent to an igod. It’s actually kinda cool…see for yourself.

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Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez has literally taken up the mantle of Patrick Henry, who said: “Give me liberty, or give me death”. In fact, he’s been on a protracted hunger strike.Our friend Apesnake spoke to this issue as well:In a time where people are considered to be freedom fighters for blowing up their countrymen and for firing mortars at people who line up to express their democratic rights.

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The Associated Press (via WaPo) is reporting that Barbara Bush, Dubya’s momma, has ”earmarked” a charitable donation, one intended “for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the Houston schools”. Moreover, the “money was donated to the Bush-Clinton Houston Hurricane Relief Fund”. Oh yeah, the “earmark” is for her son’s company.Two years ago, the Houston school

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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin seems to be a typical paternalistic bureaucrat:"Parents need to be more involved," said Martin Tuesday, acknowledging in part the argument that says the best control is the "off" button found on all televisions. But Martin, who thinks that channel rating systems and programming guides aren't good enough, added that "I think the industry needs to do more [to prevent

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TUPELO, MS—The Blessed Mother Mary said Monday that devout Catholic Anthony Montero is simply praying to her as a way to get to her Son, Jesus Christ. "People exploit me for my connections, worshipping me as a way to get closer to Jesus," said the Holy Virgin, bathed in a golden light and attended by seraphim. "How would Anthony feel if I called upon him in the guise of friendship, but simply

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I’d like to share a portion of another casual, yet candid e-mail written by my long-lost friend.I love nature and I love the art of men. I love cities and oceans. I want to learn and experience as much of this life as possible. I am the type of person that will try almost anything once. I long to experience as much of life as possible. So where am I now and what am I trying to say. Nothing

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Cicero at To The People has a radical solution to our $9,000,000,000,000 problem:Now, here's my radical solution to the national debt. The federal government should default on it. Policymakers should say, "we can't ever pay this off. Sorry. Our bad. We're not going to pay". This is the only moral solution to the problem. The only other alternative is to make people who played no role whatsoever

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Note: libertopia came into being one year ago this week. The following essay was originally posted on 16 March, 2005 (minor editing was required for the sake of intelligibility).Meaningful discourse is impossible without agreement among the participating parties on first principles or the definition of terms. This is especially true when the topic has to do with what people ought or ought not

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The ever-evolving Prince has apparently now become a prude:Pop icon Prince vowed never to sing 50 of his own songs again, because of their explicit content. The PURPLE RAIN hitmaker, who became a Jehovah's Witness six years ago (00), has removed songs including CREAM and GET OFF from his live repertoire, and insists there is enough music containing vulgar language already. He says, "You can't

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I plan to periodically post excerpts of e-mail correspondences between my late friend, Dr. Christopher Whitehead, and one of his friends from the University of Florida. The following is a portion of one of their first exchanges…Chris wrote:I have a philosophical hang-up right now: are people basically good with evil tendencies or basically bad with good tendencies? This a question that Plato

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Kevin over at the The Liberty Papers (a political / philosophical group-blog to which I contribute) has posted an eye-opening look at what he calls: libertarians for tyranny. It’s a must read…and not just for libertarians!Kevin’s piece concludes with a link to a Tom Palmer article, from which the following comes:I do not favor using coercion to forbid people with reprehensible views from

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DADAHEAD recently wrote about trade, in the context of the upcoming election(s).[T]he majority of Democratic office holders are not really populists or progressives; they're welfare-state capitalists, and their allegiance to big business is as axiomatic as any Republican's.In response, Neil wrote the following:Personally, I'm happy to identify as a welfare capitalist -- can you not be that as

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Recently a commenter known as: Who reacted to this recycled essay (and again on his own blog here…I guess I’m “another journal”, referenced in the title, although he neither mentioned my name not provided a link to my blog).You once wrote: "As an individualist, I support the freedom of another to self destruct, as long as there are no other victims." And later, aware of a degree of contradiction

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My friend Ashton won a pair of tickets, from our local rock station 96 Rock, to the Queen concert. The show was phenomenal! Check out the set list.Surprisingly, the Queen songs were great, despite the absence of the inimitable Freddie Mercury; but I must say that Paul Rogers acquitted himself quite well. Speaking of which, the following song was a particular highlight, in addition to making me

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There is an interesting discussion over at David Friedman’s blog, Ideas, involving the anchient Athenian tax scheme (particularly the comment thread).The Athenian model was purely a tax on wealth, whereas “modern democracies” (democracy is dangerous, by the way) favor a progressive tax scheme, which is a graduated tax, primarily on income, i.e. “from each according to his ability…”. In fact, the

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Chris Wilson (formerly known as The Enlightened Caveman) has a new blog called: Enlightened Living. In fact, he’s graciously invited me to contribute. It’s very flattering.Chris is currently in the midst of a series entitled: Relationships 101; part 3 of which, Between Getting and Keeping Relationships, is now up. Here’s a taste:So let's suppose you've set your sights on the kind of

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According to the LP:(Washington, D.C.) Former Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, noted scholar, and investment advisor Harry Browne died at his home in Franklin, TN on the night of March 1, 2006, after a long illness. via: Al

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"Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection." (9:29) …read the rest.

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Donald J. Hagen sent me a link to his political parody, which is pretty amusing. Here’s a small sampling:Key to abbreviations in test questions that follow:CONS: Conservative (Archconservative)LIBL: Liberal (Leftwing Wacko)LBRT: Libertarian (Antigovernment Libertine)COMM: Communist (Commie Sympathizer)1: Government's practice of stealing from the rich to give to the poor is...CONS: a crime.LIBL:

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Neal Boortz, famed Atlanta libertarian talk show host, commented on something that has the potential to revolutionize the public education system:In Georgia the governor is considering a plan whereby the state could help fund some community social service projects initiated by churches. The truth here is that these private churches do a better job of delivering many of these social services than

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Your results:You are Green LanternGreen Lantern 80%The Flash 70%Robin 70%Spider-Man 70%Hulk 55%Iron Man 50%Wonder Woman 48%Supergirl 43%Superman 40%Catwoman 25%Batman 5%Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...This can’t be right…look who fell below Wonder Woman!!!Also, what the heck does Green Lantern do?

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