Monthly Archives: May 2017
Maybe he really could get away with murder…
Back in January 2016, while on the campaign trail, Donald Trump boasted that he could shoot somebody without losing voters. Obviously this was a bit of a morbid hyperbole. Trump, in his usual classy way, was simply bragging about his popularity. … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Law Enforcement, Politics
Tagged Carter Page, Congress, controversy, corruption, crime, democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, GOP, Hillary Clinton, House of Representatives, impeachment, incompetence, James Comey, Jeff Sessions, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Republican Party, republicans, Richard Nixon, Robert Mueller, Roger Stone, Russia, Senate, tax evasion, taxes, Watergate
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On Secular Morality
This brief missive came about from indirectly observing the argument of… we’ll say a friend of a friend, on Facebook. This individual was discussing morality, specifically the need for morality to be centered around religious tenets. Between his initial post, … Continue reading
Posted in Rant
Tagged Bernard Williams, C.S. Lewis, consequentialism, David Hume, deities, Elizabeth Anscombe, ethics, Euthyphro dilemma, god, Greg Epstein, Gregg Easterbrook, Henry Sidgwick, history, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Julian Baggini, Matthew White, morality, Mozi, Peter Singer, philosophy, Plato, R.M. Hare, religion, Sam Harris, secular morality, secularism, Socrates, Steven Pinker, Thiruvalluvar, utilitarianism, William Godwin
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A Skewed Perspective 