Month: August 2003
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Speaking of mystics…
I’ve been reading a lot of Robert Heinlein lately. He really is an amazing science fiction writer, and his independent, productive, rational, and optimistic protagonists share many traits with the heroes of Ayn Rand. The only flaw I see in his writing is a pervading skepticism of all absolutes and ideals as such. His characters…
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Black church will pay whites to attend.
Wow.
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What Is Good For Iraq Is Good For Iran?
FOX: The grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini…the late Iranian cleric who hated America and founded the Islamic state that rules Iran…is now blasting his own country’s clerical regime, calling it, ‘the worst dictatorship in the world’ and suggesting that U.S. military force might be needed to remove the regime. Hossein Khomeini, a Muslim cleric himself, says…
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Damn Fundamentalists
The first horse has been cloned. One would think that most people would be impressed by this amazing scientific achievement that will allow us to clone winning geldings like Funny Cide, but check out the results of this MSNBC survey: What do you think of the prospects of cloning horses? It should be forbidden. :…
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Some random sites:
An account of a vacation to the other “socialist paradise.” Man loses papers, stuck in French airport since 1988. How do courts swear in atheists? Child actor Gary Coleman competes with Arnold for govenor of the People State of CA And to stir up some debate, my post Objectivists Need A Church, Too
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Paper: N.Korea Plans to Export Missiles to Iran
Word on the street is that North Korea is selling long-range ballistic missiles to Iran. I’m not sure why a totalitarian slave-state like North Korea would be able to create both nukes and ICBM’s while a marginally less-totalitarian but much larger slave-state like Iran is not. Gee, maybe it has something to do with Israel…
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The Origins of Gender Roles and Sexual Identity, and the Implications for Deviant Behavior
August 5, 2003 (Note: I now disagree with the conclusions in this essay.) My original goal in writing this essay was to answer a question on the morality of homosexuality. I believed that it was a deviant, potentially self-destructive behavior, (primarily because psychological and physiological problems stemming from the “gay lifestyle”) but it was…
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Whos the worst dictator of all time?
Today’s blog is a reply to the following question I saw on a local forum: Who is the worst dictator of all time? My post: How can you answer this kind of question without first determining what makes someone evil in the first place? And how can you possibly make such a comparison without some…
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LAWRENCE, Massachusetts (AP) — This city’s superintendent of schools, who recently put two dozen teachers on unpaid leave for failing a basic English proficiency test, has himself flunked a required literacy test three times. The story concludes: Laboy, who receives a 3 percent pay hike this month that will raise his salary to $156,560, recently…