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Re: Blame It on Gerald Dworkin for Blaming It on Ayn Rand

East of Blacksburg — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:06:28 -0000

I guess that J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Hobbes, Saul Kripke, Derek Parfit, etc.--since they lack Ph.Ds in philosophy--aren't real philosophers, either.

As for Brian Leiter and Gerald (Not Ronald!) Dworkin: I've read both of their work and--what can I say?--it's good.

You'd think that people who were smart enough to learn some political philosophy would also be able to grasp the basic tenets of civil deliberation between interlocutors deserving of respect. Maybe it should be the next item on their research programs.

Their childishness is ridiculous and a little sad.

Re: Blame It on Gerald Dworkin for Blaming It on Ayn Rand

East of Blacksburg — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:48:44 -0000

Such savage and merciless sarcasm is uncalled for (but hilarious nonetheless).

Re: John Cochrane on Keynesianism

East of Blacksburg — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:05:44 -0000

Willem Buiter argues forcefully in the Financial Times that post-Lucas Macro is (1) irrelevant and (2) a failure

http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/03/the-unfor...

Re: Ick

East of Blacksburg — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:55:06 -0000

That last, ungrammatical sentence should be: "it doesn't deserve to be dignified with a response."

God, I'm a moron.

Re: Ick

East of Blacksburg — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:55:08 -0000

Holbo's passage should be listed as an example next to the dictionary definition of "straw man argument." Doesn't dignify a response

Re: Rant: Why Are Big Companies So Bad at the Web?

East of Blacksburg — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:19:14 -0000

Maybe this has something to do with the fact that Mr. Deity has an anti-God theme and is therefore too hot to handle?

Does this problem exist for comparable but less inflammatory shows?

My uninformed hunch is that someone is trying to do something interesting but is scared of offending religious sensibilities...

Re: Iraqis: Things Are Going Great, So How About Leaving?

East of Blacksburg — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:09:27 -0000

The phrase is plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

This is why no one can trust what you write.