November 2001

Philosopher John Kekes attacks the egalitarian tendencies of John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin.

Although I doubt he is taking up my challenge to present a non-fluff argument against cloning, Dawson of dawson.com teases us with this:
Until I have time to expound, expatiate and yes, eviscerate, on the very real evils of cloning, I leave you this quotation from one of my favorite authors:
“A person is a person no [...]

From mensactivism.org:
The YWCA of Middle Tennessee recently ran an ad in both the Nashville Scene and Nashville’s City Paper depicting the blurred image of a young boy walking up to his front door. The caption: “One day he’ll own his own house…raise his own kids…beat his own wife.”
It’s part of an anti-domestic abuse campaign. [...]

I’ve been looking…. Is there an argument against cloning other than (1) We shouldn’t be playing God, (2) It makes me feel really funny, or (3) It’s not safe yet?
(1) and (2) are ridiculous, because there is no God (and if there were she’d want us to do it) and feeling funny isn’t an objection [...]

The first U.S. combat death, Johnny “Mike Spann, a CIA agent, has been officially reported. First, it’s just amazing that it took this long for an American death. Second, it’s really amazing that your chances of dying appear to be higher if you’re a journalist than if you’re a U.S. combat troop.

First the smoking idiocy, now this! These freaks in Montgomery County are making me glad to live in rather less chi chi Prince Georges County (for a change). If you can set the cops on your neighbor because you don’t like the odor coming from their place, can’t we in PG County do something about [...]

I’m worried that Tony Adragna may have misconstrued what I intended by “rational ignorance” when he links to my blurb about Eugene Volokh from his post on Leon Kass. I shudder even now to mention them in the same breath. (Volokh good! Kass bad!)
Rational ignorance, in the sense Volokh was talking about, has to do [...]

Oh the irony! Ashcroft won’t release a list of the detainees because that it would “violate their rights. As Lucas Guttentag, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said (to WashPost):
It is ironic that the government is now concerned about rights when it has arrested and jailed hundreds of people without giving the American public [...]

Today was the day of high-powered libertarian law professors. Had a fun lunch with Eugene Volokh of UCLA (visiting at George Mason this semester) who wanted to talk about… blogs! He’s a huge fan of my blogging hero Instapundit! (I think he knows Prof. Reynolds from the 2nd Amendment lit.) After blogs, nice chat on [...]

Good! Ashcroft is getting heat. Sen. Leahy is pissed. He says, Ashcroft, “Owes the country an explanation” for his “ad hoc, outside the justice system tactics. I’d say. Undoubtedly, some my-country-right-or-wrong war groupies will be dismayed that Leahy is criticizing the administration, but at this point Leahy has a fair bit of war on terrorism [...]

On Sunday, December 2nd, people around the world (108 cities) will Walk for Capitalism! Tired of clueless protests against liberty and prosperity? Check to see if your city is involved, and walk in celebration of freedom, markets and commercial culture! I’ll be joining Washington, D.C. folks at the Rosslyn Metro at 2:00 pm on Sunday, [...]