Archive for October, 2008



Undecided Voters

Everyone is talking about the undecided voter. As I write this, I’m watching a line graph on CNN track the impressions of “uncommitted Ohio voters.”
I’m pretty sure my father has already made this point, but I’ll reiterate: if you don’t know who you’re going to vote for by now, you don’t possess enough philosophical sophistication [...]

Shameless Plug

FrontPage Magazine has just run an article about ETSU’s Society for Intellectual Diversity. Yours truly features prominantly. Check it out.

Debates

[9:57] Obama is talking about my “right” to health care (McCain may have referred to it that way as well – I can’t remember). I want someone to provide for me the philosophical basis of that assertion. Tell me why we ought to tack “health care” on to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness [...]

It’s funny cuz’ it’s true

SNL lampoons the mortgage crisis:

A Pedagogical Moment

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