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 [...]

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

[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 [...]

SNL lampoons the mortgage crisis:

I have a bone to pick with individuals who teach statistics.
A standard deviation is a measure of the average distance between data points and their mean. Thus, if one’s dataset contained the numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8, the mean would be 20/4 = 5 (the sum divided by the number of data points). A [...]

Among the many virtues of Governor Palin is her willingness - if not eagerness - to self-identify as a feminist.
I realize that the term causes no small amount of discomfort for most conservatives, and many libertarians; this is understandable, as feminism’s extreme genera are responsible for more intellectual atrocities than I can count (here’s a [...]

While I’m almost certain this point has been made elsewhere, having failed to hear it in the general press, I am compelled to make it here: the only reason anybody has taken notice of Sarah Palin’s daughter, her husband’s tryst with the Alaskan Independence Party, or her dismissal of Walter Monegan is because no one [...]

…and I’m already experiencing mental fatigue every time I hear a talking head employ the term “gravitas.”

Two men from Dahlonega, Georgia have recently claimed to be in possession of Bigfoot’s carcass.
Dahlonega is the home of my Alma Mater, North Georgia College and State University. I lived there for three years.
I don’t know the guys, but this story tells me that one of two things has happened in the area I used [...]

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