It might have been written this week. The New Yorker, ladies and gents: I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief. “Bad news, detective. We got…
DetailsThere have been many times in my 26 years that I have run into things that make me speechless, at least temporarily. Most often, the force of an argument I hadn’t considered is the reason, but on very rare occasion, it will be because I am stunned at how ignorant people can be. This video…
DetailsFutilityCloset: Charles Ollier observed that GHOTI can be pronounced “fish”: GH as in laughO as in womenTI as in nation Melville Dewey, who devised the Dewey Decimal System, suggested that GHEAUGHTEIGHPTOUGH spells “potato”: GH as in hiccoughEAU as in beauGHT as in naughtEIGH as in neighPT as in pterodactylOUGH as in though This sort of…
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Mongolian throat-singer:
It is time that I post more of alternative viewpoints (i.e. things I completely disagree with but that are interesting/valuable/thoughtful nonetheless) on SNV, and this is the first of those. Peter Singer is a fascinating philosopher, whose thoughts have culminated in animal rights activism. I leave you today with an essay he wrote a few…
DetailsThis guy is the front-runner? Doesn’t sound like he does much thinking on the side…