Monthly Archives: September 2008

Scroll-by shooting: Neism? WTF?

>>>Another post from the first month of my second year of blogging. I’m rather proud of it as an example of taking on odd things pseuds say about serious intellectuals.<<< With Matt on hiatus, someone needs to make sure the poo gets flung, and I have decided to take up that role. However, this blog [...]

Two politics links

Greta Christina writes about how we shouldn’t care about Palin’s pregnant daughter, but we should worry a lot about a lot of Palin’s positions. Yay for that. Second, Lester Hunt has a post on Obama supporters trying to squash an anti-Obama ad, without responding to its allegations. Comment: assuming what the ad says is true, [...]

In support of political incompetence

Here is something I don’t understand: why people will talk about an office holder’s lack of skill at politics as if it were a bad thing. Certainly, we want office holders who are good at the jobs we elect them for, but when it comes to political skill, I’d prefer a guy who cant’ B.S. [...]

Theoretical Ethics and Real Tyranny

Tuesday, I mentioned winning a prize from the university for one of my essays, and I’ve decided I finally need to post it online. The link is here. The link will appear permanently on the info page. I was originally going to upload a second paper as well, but am having technical difficulties–expect that later.

Mind Body Problem I: Descartes

Let’s look at where we are in this course: we started off with whether God exists, then moved on to discussing individual ethics, and then the structure of society. The first unit dealt with one big question of what there is in the world, and the second two dealt with what we ought to do. [...]