July 2004

It seems that I’m constantly getting into arguments–arguments that don’t even interest me that much–about whether moral behavior is even possible if people don’t believe in God, or Aristotelian natural ends, or natural rights, or whatever. It’s boring because, well, it’s just plain as an Amish girl that you don’t need to believe in anything [...]

Matt Welch’s convention rant had me literally pumping my fists in the air and yelling “Yeah!!!”
I’ll stop linking to little Reason pieces as soon as they stop being so choice.

Check out my rejoinder to Ed Feser’s trainwreck of an anti-libertarian essay at Tech Central Station, which Julian so ably thrashed last week.

Peter Northrup at Crescat makes the important point about the fact that Norwegians don’t go to work a lot.
(Couldn’t find a picture of a viking in a hammock.)

Nick Gillespie drops mad Star Trek scientifics in his argument for the essential similarity of Bush and Kerry. On other “The Election Matters Not So Much” fronts, Anton Sherwood in the comments delivers this link to a lovely first-person account of bureaucratic autonomy.

The Big Trunk from Power Line posts an excerpt from Harvey Mansfield’s Weekly Standard review of Stephen Rhoad’s Taking Sex Differences Seriously. Let me tell you what I think of this bit:
What evolutionists think is the closest we usually get to the notion of nature these days. But it is not close enough. For evolution [...]

Almost everybody thinks elections are events of immense importance. I think this is evidence that almost nobody understands how we are in fact governed (or ruled). The distinction between the government and the state is simple enough, but it seems that nobody really really gets it.
The point is that if Kerry wins, just suppose, [...]

Does the DEA know that oxytocin is addictive?
934 Westminster is so having a cuddle party! The rules:
1. Pajamas stay on the whole time.
2. No SEX. (Yep, you read that right.)
3. Ask for permission to kiss or nuzzle anyone. Make sure you can handle getting a no before you invite or request anyone to cuddle or [...]

Has anyone considered that this may be an inclusive disjunction?
Meanwhile, P. Diddy is attempting to stir the nation’s youth to action with his “Vote or Die” campaign. Now, Diddy, being a master logician, has had the foresight to pick a disjunction that is certainly true, if only contingently so. Everyone will eventually die, while it [...]

Check out the newish blog from the Drug Policy Alliance (Reason! Compassion!! Justice!!!) written by Baylen Linnekin. Baylen was at an IHS seminar I stage-managed a few years ago, and I had the good fortune of running into him a couple months ago after some AFF thing. Baylen’s a good guy. The blog is a [...]

If you, or someone you know, is looking for a place to live in Washington, DC starting in September, there is a yet-unfilled vacancy at the Westminnie House. 934 Westminster is ONE (convoluted) block’s distance from the U St/Cardozo/African American Civil War Memorial metro stop. We’re within a leisurely five minute stroll of some of [...]