Warning The links and scenarios have disturbing imagery. The consent argument is so strong in our culture that its truth is almost self-evident. It says as long as two people consent in […]
The Consent Fallacy
Celebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake
The OSHA opinion is here: the “Health” opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA dictate, and […]
If The Founding Principles Were So Great, How’d We Get To Where We Are? Part I
First, the founding principles of America were whatever they were; that is, there were principles stated and then there were principles actually adhered to (and these might be the same): the principles […]
Edge’s Last Question
The guy who runs Edge, the site we’ve had some fun with over the years, has decided he’s run out of interesting questions. So to go out with a noise, which you’ll […]
What Is It You Truly Desire — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel this? Does anyone else perceive that there has been an upsurge in the discussion on the probability of Heaven/Hell No, not just an […]
Musk’s Matrix Is Malodorous
“Elon Musk has said that there is only a ‘one in billions’ chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.” Since all probability is conditional on the assumed premises, the natural […]
Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?
Today’s discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in “The Right Religion“, which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The literature on this […]
Clean Razors For Women Who Cut Themselves? What Happened to First Do No Harm?
Physicians long ago abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, for at least the reason that its call for physicians not to cause harm went against the modern acceptance, and even boasting, of killing. Which […]
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