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A Short Film:
A Breach of Social Contract
Social contract theory is bunk, but if it wasn’t, we’d have a material breach on our hands… Imagine that you have agreed with an auto dealer to purchase the luxurious Belchfire X-1 automobile, for which you agree to pay $45,000, with monthly payments to extend over a period of three years. You sign the sales…
DetailsWhat’s Wrong With Healthcare?
The fact that we never foot the bill, for one. Here is yet another iteration of the contention that the free market will improve our healthcare situation, if “they” will let it. Your lecture of the week:
“HAHAHAHA I KILL PEOPLE!!!”
Obama joke-threatens to use drones on the Jonas brothers if they come near his daughters. Just completely out of touch with morality, reality, and his lessers….
Sunday Song
Sailing Ships – An Original
The Last (Non)Book of the Bible
Sometimes, I have my doubts about the numenous content of the bible. And I don’t mean about its truth, I mean about its potency. The phenomenal aspects of the lives of the prophets and other biblical subjects are very important as parallels and examples to our own lives, but the fantastical aspects of the bible…
DetailsA New Development in Birth Control
It appears, from a series of studies, that preventing implantation is not the mechanism by which Plan B prevents pregnancy. In fact, similar to condoms, it may be that the “superpill” prevents fertilization in the first place. The spiritual implications of birth control itself have pushed our culture into a sort of desperation. However, if…
DetailsReal Money & Fake Money
Real money holds its value, and slowly increases in value, leading to a higher standard of life for all: The process of making fake money “is so simple that the mind is repelled,” noted the economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Is it our moral sentiments that are repelled, or is it the logic in the matter?…
DetailsKeynesianism & the Green Movement Seek to Stack Bodies
Question: When you enter a moral universe where your scruples are blunted enough to pursue some dubious end by any number of questionable means, what prevents you, as a Keynesian economist or politician, from seeing people killed to boost your economy? Answer: Not much. As a sidenote, if you head over to Paul Krugman’s blog,…
DetailsRevisionist History – Star Wars Style
Turns out, R2-D2 and Chewbacca are some of the most important characters in the original canon: Originally © Keith Martin 2005. Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted…
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