…and human responsibility.
Category Archives: Philosophy
Watching TV With Your Kids Over The Holidays?
Try Firefly. I noticed that there was a Firefly festival last weekend on one of the cable channels.
Why Would You Go?
How do you convince the twentieth generation of space colonists to leave earth?
[Update a few minutes later]
Slightly related: Charles Krauthammer wonders if we’re alone in the universe. I disagree with him, though, that politics is the driver of human history. Technology plays at least as large a role.
The Individual Mandate
Why both Gingrich and Romney are awful, and unconservative, though at least Gingrich has figured out the score, while Romney continues to double down.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s video of Romney continuing to defend the mandate as “conservative.” This tells us that he has no idea what conservative principles are, because in fact it is tyrannical.
Reclaiming The Liberal Tradition Of Libertarianism
Why the Ron Paul newsletters matter so much.
[Update mid morning]
More thoughts from Bryan Preston. This is not good for libertarianism.
The War Against Christmas
I don’t believe in God, but, I swear, people who believe there is no God, and don’t want anyone else to believe in Him are complete asshats, and this kind of nonsense is completely counterproductive to their cause.
Hitchens And Hell
Some thoughts from Ross Douthat. I’ve never even pretended to start to understand Christian theology. It always struck me as rationalization for what people want to believe.
I Don’t Care If It’s Stupid
I’m going to just keep right on doing it. Our science reporters at work.
Honing The Cognitive Toolkit
Some interesting stuff.
“I Simply Do Not Know Where The Money Is”
Why should we believe that the motives of people in (cough, cough) “public service” are different from the motives of people in the for-profit sector? Was Jon Corzine a rapacious self-seeker at Goldman Sachs, then a public-spirited man when he was in the Senate and in New Jersey’s governorship, only to revert to form when he went to MF Global? If you doubt that this is true, and suspect that Jon Corzine was the same guy all along, why would you want to give government more power?
It’s a question that big-government supporters never answer. Partly because when it’s a John Corzine or a John Edwards, it’s not that big a deal. If either had been a Republican, it would have been second-coming type in the New York Times.
The Founders wrote a constitution on the basis that men are not angels, but “liberals” apparently believe that when they call themselves “liberal” and Democrats that they are, and will rule us wisely.