I decided to truly challenge myself with this writing assignment and find the most wrong-headed concept it this essay. It was tough competition: I could easily have gone with his personification of machines (that unconscious lumps of metal have “points-of-view” and “function as virtual members of society”), or the closely related confusion he has between …
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Thoughts on Burn a Koran Day and Libertarianism
Recently on Facebook, I was made aware of a group which will be hosting “Burn a Koran Day” on September 11, 2010. Many people on Facebook who happily refer to themselves as Libertarians (or Conservatives, which in America should be practically identical) were shocked and outraged that I refused to condemn this group. Angry statements …
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Philosophy of Technology
Below is my first essay for PHIL401, Philosophy of Technology. It is a rebuttal to another essay, and I thought it turned out well enough to share: According to Winston, the most important reasons for the philosophical investigation of science and technology are that a) science and technology are socially constructed; the biases of any …
Questions from Facebook
Below are two questions which came up in a recent Facebook conversation, and my responses. Let me know what you think: “I don’t see the connection between hunting down international terrorist criminals and funding wars and keeping armies everywhere on the globe.” The connection is this: we are not confronting “terrorist criminals,” we are confronting …
Free-Market Health Care?
Faced with an overwhelmingly deadly heart condition, a 9-year-old boy in Georgia has raised $12,000.00 towards his own medical expenses. Essentially, the boy wrote a short story and sold a limited-edition run of autographed copies on E-bay. So Barack Obama and the Democrat-led Congress have passed a gigantic, fascist law mandating that all Americans purchase …
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The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
In 1920, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. the United States. This case was to overturn the judgment of the District Court of the Western State of New York, which had made a judgment against the plaintiff based on secondary evidence. This secondary evidence had been gathered based on earlier evidence which …
Damned Selfish Conservatives!
Recently on Facebook, I came across the question: “Do conservatives ever care about anything except their own money?” Here is my response: If American conservatives were ever primarily concerned with money, that period ended with the ascent of the New Right in 1980. The concern of conservatives today is FREEDOM–specifically, those freedoms won by the …
New Beginnings
I have received my program materials for the New Hermetics Program. It looks very promising. The founder, Jason Augustus Newcomb, will be personally proctoring me.
Bitch Slap
Well, we’re almost three months in to 2010, and they’ve finally released a movie I find watchable–straight to DVD, of course. Even the mighty Avatar has taken its place next to Pearl Harbor and Titanic in the dustbin of “Blockbusters I will probably never, ever watch.” Before I go any farther, let me state for …
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