At The Volokh Conspiracy, Philip Cook argues lowering the drinking age would lead to increased abuse, but we should do it anyway (HT: Sully). His main piece of evidence is an increase in highway fatalities back when some states lowered their drinking ages, plus a vague gesture towards “other indications of increased abuse.” Without a [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Good article on FoxNews.com
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 15, 2009
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When I showed her this, my girlfriend asked if I had alerted the respectable media. Actually, I found it via Ed Brayton’s blog, which has gotten some wonderful guest-bloggers while Ed goes off to Vegas to gamble. Also from one of Ed’s guests is a post on Obama’s decision not to investigate Bush war crimes. [...]
In defense of Orwell, take II
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 14, 2009
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Okay, so AnlamK has asked me to read a Language Log criticism of Orwell’s _Politics and the English Language_titled “Orwell’s Liar” and respond. After doing a search of my own blog, I realized I had gotten into some of the same arguments with a different Language Log writer four months ago. When I first sat [...]
What the fuck is uncivility?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 14, 2009
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A couple days ago PZ put up a post on the over-done issue of “civility” in the blogging world. I had to pause and wonder what exactly people are complaining about. I read through the first hundred comments. This being PZ’s place, few were in defense of civility, but on the few there were: The [...]
Review: Paul K. Moser’s _The Elusive God_
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 13, 2009
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This week, I’ve decided to take a break from reviewing books that specifically deal with Dawkins et al. and look at a book on religious epistemology with no particular target: Paul K. Moser’s _The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology_. The presentation can be clumsy and confusing at times, but it provides some interesting variants on [...]