According to MSNBC, if Trump wins America will be a fascist dictatorship. According to Fox, if Harris wins it’ll be a communist dystopia. I suppose that without this hyperbolic awfulising American politics would be about as boring as, well, Canadian… Read More ›
Social and Political Philosophy
RAPE AND INCEST
Don’t get me wrong – which of course you will – but I am not a pro-Lifer. But if I were a pro-Lifer – which, remember, I’m not – I’d think I’d still be a stickler for logical consistency. So… Read More ›
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
It’s a little known fact that others of our species are not very tasty, at least not to us. I say it’s a little known fact, though I grant that it’s widely believed. This is because the only people who… Read More ›
THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT
The Principle of Double Effect (PDE) exculpates you for the albeit anticipated consequences of your actions – the so-called collateral damage – provided 1) they were not the intention of your action, 2) they were not the means by which… Read More ›
THREE UNSEEMLY COMMENTS ABOUT THE BUTLER SHOOTING
For what little they’re worth, I have three unseemly comments about tonight’s shooting in Butler. The first is: I wonder how long it will be before the nothing-is-as-it-seems junkies decide it’s too much of a coincidence that the shooter went… Read More ›
WHY IT’S A GOOD THING I CAN’T VOTE
The propaganda war isn’t over what we’re being exposed to. It’s over what we’re exposing ourselves to. So there’s a strong element of complicity in what we believe, be it about global warming, vaccination safety, Gaza, of what have you…. Read More ›
THE FOG OF WAR
I’m told – though this could be apocryphal – that more Indians were killed in all those Cowboys and Indians movies and TV shows than the number of Indians there ever were in the Wild West. The number of kills… Read More ›
RIGHTS-TALK AND THE CURRENT PROPAGANDA WAR
Depending on when you start counting – and depending on who’s doing the counting – Jews and Arabs have been at war in Palestine since the first implementation of the Balfour Declaration in the early 1920’s, or since the Naqba… Read More ›
RIGHTEOUS KILLING
Most of us draw the distinction – and thankfully the law does too – between celebrating an illegal act and advocating one, and then between advocating one and inciting one. For example, I’ve made no secret that I thought 9/11… Read More ›
OF BIGOTRY AND CONSERVATISM
Some people think there are too many people in the world. Others think they’re just not properly distributed. That is, too much food is where the locals don’t need it, and too little of it is where the locals do…. Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 