The French on free speech here and here.
Links courtesy of Matt Welch and Steve den Beste. Do yourself a favor and read Steve’s blurb about the utility of deception.
I am sick for a
I am sick for a few days, and Will Warren cranks out some more gems at Unremitting Verse. Guess who he is talking about here:
My legacy needs tending, so I travel round the world:
The banner of philanthropy I always fly unfurled.
I teach my people history they really ought to know,
While guiding foreign policy in ways it ought to go.
I gaze into the future-I’m a quite astounding seer;
I’ve a sweet and even temper that is quite without a peer.
I love my fellow creatures-I do all the good I can-
Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!
And I can’t think why!
Emily Jones beats up Norah
Emily Jones beats up Norah Vincent. Both are Balloon Juice favorites, but for radically different reasons. Yeehaw.
** Update **
Miss Emily has inaccurately inferred that I insulted her in my previous comments. I meant that I like them both because Vincent is an unending source of banalities for me to poke fun at (although she did have a nice little rant about intolerance of the loony left a few weeks ago) , while I agree with a good deal of what Emily has to say- except her taste in movies. I apologize for being unclear.
From Megan at Live from
From Megan at Live from the WTC, some blog activism. Seems pervs are looking for clips of the R Kelly sex tape and the Daniel Pearl murder. Here to muck up there web searches are the links they are not looking for:
Disgusting pukes.
New links added for Ipse
New links added for Ipse Dixit and Joanne Jacobs, and one that I thought I had entered long ago for Megan McArdle (Live from the WTC).
** Update **
For some reason Kathy Kinsley is not listed. That has been corrected.
This was an interesting self-examination
This was an interesting self-examination test:
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Seems this philosophy test is
Seems this philosophy test is all the rage. Here are my results:
1. Rand (100%)
2. Stoics (92%)
3. Hume (81%)
4. Nietzsche (80%)
5. Kant (78%)
6. Sartre (75%)
7. Aristotle (73%)
8. Hobbes (71%)
9. Cynics (61%)
10. Mill (57%)
11. Bentham (52%)
12. Spinoza (52%)
13. Prescriptivism (47%)
14. Plato (46%)
15. Aquinas (44%)
16. Epicureans (38%)
17. Ockham (34%)
18. Noddings (29%)
19. Augustine (28%)
I know a few of them, the rest I have to look up in my Oxford Companion to Philosophy. If anyone wants to save me the energy, I will wait several days before I look it up….