For some people what matters is which songs are # 3 and # 4 on the Country and Western charts. Is there something defective about these people? Obviously, because what really matters is, What’s better, an Eatmore or an Oh… Read More ›
Everything You Wanted to Know About What’s Going On in the World But Were Afraid to Ask
THE LAST TO PASS JUDGMENT
There’s a word that needs to be coined – it should probably be an ism – to capture the following pattern. If you tune into CNN or MSNBC, you’ll note that they often give voice to Republicans who complain they… Read More ›
DYSPHORIA
You say you present as a man but you feel like a woman. I get the first part, because I can see that you do, but I’m not sure I understand the second. How would you know what it feels… Read More ›
HOW TO GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
Try as it might, no constitution can include a mechanism for its own suspension, since if that mechanism were invoked it would have been constitutional to do so. That’s just a matter of logic. By contrast it’s not strictly speaking… Read More ›
THE MEANING OF OBSCENITY
I’m going to make up a stat, but I’m guessing it won’t be too far off the mark. I’m going to claim the mainstream media dedicated 17 times the coverage to the loss of those 5 would-be adventurers in a… Read More ›
MENSTRUATION SHAMING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Before you read this, take a look: Menstrual Equity at Waterloo Apart from the bit about free tampons in the women’s washrooms, my wife thinks this is just bat shit crazy. I disagree. I’ve already reported on the number of… Read More ›
CONVOLUTION
The fallacy of self-exclusion is an old saw in philosophy. Common example? Intolerance of intolerance. Or, “There’s no place for hate at the University of Fill-in-the-Blank!”, except of course for our hatred of haters. Or, “Our mandate is a university… Read More ›
RUSSIA, UKRAINE, CALIFORNIA AND BRAZIL
Trade relations are transitive. If America trades with Brazil and Brazil trades with Russia, then America just is trading with Russia. So if America doesn’t want to trade with Russia, it has to tell Brazil, “Either you can trade with… Read More ›
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
By Critical Race Theory (CRT) is meant a) an analysis of the concept of race such that b) race will turn out to be a, if not the, prime determinant of social stratification. In that sense CRT cannot but be… Read More ›
I GET IT, BUT …
A young person, who’s been rejected all his life by the guys for not being guy enough, finally gets up the courage to present as a woman, only to be rejected by women for still being too guy. She’s walking… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 