This is blowing up all over, but Patterico has the key detail: I just got off the phone with Aaron and he and his wife are a little shaken up but OK. The officers had machine guns but did not point them at Aaron. They were quickly able to determine it was a hoax. At… Read More On the Aaron Walker Swatting
Long weekend, long day, blah, whatever. We’re all waiting for the Supremes to hand down their ObamaCare verdict anyway.
Roger Kimball predicts it’s going to get ugly.
Jeff Goldstein describes the new racial show trials. In a campaign reminiscent of the Soviet show-trials of the late 1930′s, where the “enemies of the People” publicly confessed their “crimes” against the Soviet, The University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD) is actually sponsoring a campaign, declaring “whites” the enemy of the people and showing these enemies confessing their crimes of… Read More Another Opportunity for Honkies to Express their Superiority Over the Wrong Kinds of White People
It’s called S.A.L.V.E., or Shameless Acts of Literary Vandalism and Entertainment. It’s available on Kindle, or in hard copy form on CreateSpace. Buy most buyingly.
Read all about it here (h/t: Insty). “Supernatural punishment across nations seems to predict lower crime rates,” Shariff said. “At this stage, we can only speculate about mechanisms, but it’s possible that people who don’t believe in the possibility of punishment in the afterlife feel like they can get away with unethical behavior. There is… Read More Belief in Hell Predicts Lower Crime Rates
I’m a theist, so I’ll answer them: Why is the physical universe so unimaginably large? Why should it not be? More to the point, isn’t the description “unimaginably large” relative only to humans (and their imagination)? And what’s the point? Under either a materialistic or theistic explanation, the question is irrelevant: ie, the Universe is as… Read More 20 Questions For Theists, Answered
The Father of Science is not for the casual reader, and I salute anyone who can work his way through any of his books. This summary of the Politics is as good as any. Will I take the opportunity to link my own essay on Revolution, which include Aristotle’s thoughts from Book V? Yes, yes… Read More Unpacking Aristotle
Canadian Rattlesnake dives into the issue. Regulations seem to function as prior restraint: that is, they seek to prevent, or limit, certain undesirable outcomes. Criminal laws and torts seek to punish such actions after the fact. Can pollution be a crime? Can you sue for salmonella? I honestly don’t know.
Bloomberg has Obama up 13 points. Rasmussen has Romney up 2. I mention these because they’re the most recent polls, and they’re polls of Likely Voters, not just Registered Voters. Now that’s an 11-point difference. Rasmussen’s sample is about double the size, but that’s the only noticeable difference. So unless Bloomberg is heavily weighting Democrats,… Read More Bloomberg vs. Rasmussen
