This was an interesting self-examination test: Which Firearm are you?brought to you byStan Ryker
Archives for February 2002
Seems this philosophy test is
Seems this philosophy test is all the rage. Here are my results: 1. Rand (100%) 2. Stoics (92%) 3. Hume (81%) 4. Nietzsche (80%) 5. Kant (78%) 6. Sartre (75%) 7. Aristotle (73%) 8. Hobbes (71%) 9. Cynics (61%) 10. Mill (57%) 11. Bentham (52%) 12. Spinoza (52%) 13. Prescriptivism (47%) 14. Plato (46%) 15. …
The party that brought you
The party that brought you the outrage over the inability of their members to vote properly in the 2000 election are now doing their best to scuttle election reform and then to blame it on the Republicans. It seems our friends the Democrats are objecting to a provision (one they previously agreed to in December) …
In a moment of thoughtful
In a moment of thoughtful and careful analysis that is typical of yours truly, I commented: In a further attempt to prove that they are a bunch of lawless twits who run the Olympics like a bunch of backdealing used car salesmen, the IOC has stripped several cross country skiiers of their gold medals for …
MommaBare sent me an email
MommaBare sent me an email (sorry I missed it at first, but you somehow got caught by my newly installed junk mail filter) stating that copies of the Daniel Pearl execution video might be up for bids to the highest bidder. As disgusting as that may seem, the truth is probably worse. I doubt anyone …
Fritz Hollings appears to have
Fritz Hollings appears to have lost his mind. I saw him ranting and raving at some press conference yesterday (the topic of which escapes me- I was in a robitussin and fever induced haze), but unless I was hallucinating from the meds, he was accusing Bush of causing the September 11th attacks through off-shore bank …
Seems like I have missed
Seems like I have missed a lot in the last few days when I was brought to my knees by some awful flu. A quick recap, and then on to some original posts: A.) Lileks is a genius, but you already knew that if you have come here before. I love Mr. Lileks, and this …