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MRDArous Aphorisms: The Third Salvo

None leave this world unblemished – to try is to self-deny. Pro-bomberventionists: “You can kill all the civilians you want, just not with those.” For some, objectification may serve as something of a shield from the animosity they would accrue … Continue reading

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Walter Kaufmann on “Equality of Opportunity”

Right now, I’m having an enjoyable time reading through my years-long-neglected hardcover copy of Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy, a relatively obscure work by prominent Fritz-translator Walter Kaufmann. I’m thinking about dedicating a post or two to … Continue reading

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Inconsistency Quotient

Two weeks back, the state of Texas sent convicted murderer Marvin Wilson on a KCI-addled one-way trip to oblivion. News of this came to my attention via the Huffington Post, which made a big how-to about the potassium-punctured perp’s IQ. … Continue reading

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The Derb is the Word…or is He?

Who would’ve thought such a mild-mannered, bourgeois Englishman could ignite such a fibre-optic firestorm? A few weekends back, all right-thinking Left-leaners united for a hyperextended Two Minutes Hate session against one John Derbyshire, a Brit expat and paleocon pundit who … Continue reading

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Duty: Mencken Delivers the Deathblow!

First printed in the Smart Set, May 1919, p. 51. Reprinted in A Second Mencken Chrestomathy, 1994, p. 351. Some of the loosest thinking in ethics has duty for its theme. Practically all writers on the subject agree that the … Continue reading

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Interesting—a Threefold K.O!

I’d say the root of the libertarian dead end is looking at the idealized “human,” rather than the existing advanced primate. It’s a bit ironic that both conservatives and the left have a love/hate relationship with evolution/genetics etc. On the … Continue reading

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