Tagged: society
Linky Friday #147: New Year Edition
This Week! Britain, Gender, Society, Technology, Politics, and Religion!
Linky Friday #146: Crime & Daeshment
This Week! Crime, Daesh, Politics, Government, Housing, and Society! (Also, Happy Holidays)
Linky Friday #145: Politics In Everything
This Week! Environment, Europe, Immigration, Politics, and Society!
Linky Friday #143: Rise & Shine
This week: Health, Education, Business, Poilitics, Government, and Society.
The Illustrated Man
My dad foisted Dandelion Wine on me when I was young and still homeschooled. It was to be, appropriately enough, the first book in my list of self-imposed summer reading. His copy was old, and...
A Question for Techies, Engineers and the Libertarian-Leaning
Reading an old “office war story” by Wardsmith over the weekend, it struck me that most of the libertarian leaning people I know in my fleshbot life work as engineers, programmers, or in some...
Role Reversals
Elias’ latest post gave me a little epiphany this morning. He mentions social Darwinism as a feature of the Paul Ryan budget proposal, the not-so-subtle subtext of course is that conservatives believe in social Darwinism
Odium Surplus/Odium Deficit
A common way to talk about crime and punishment is to liken them to debt and repayment: A crime creates a debt to society; if the criminal is caught and convicted, a just sentence...
“What’chu talking ’bout, Willis?”
When I was growing up there was a period when the above phrase was uttered by everyone, all the time. I’ve seen similar things happen to, among others, “Show me the money!,” “Time to...
On Child Abuse
by Sam Wilkinson “Did you hear?” asked a coworker, in my office to take a break. “They found a 70-pound girl on the side of the road.” They in this case was a passerby...
What are women for?
I keep trying to better understand James Poulos. I like James a great deal, though we disagree pretty fundamentally on many things. I’ve been fascinated by his discussions of the Pink Police State (a conservative...
A Response to ‘Democracy, Coercion, and Liberty’
~by James Hanley Erik’s been trying to work out a question about the libertarian justification of the state, and so far it hasn’t gone well. His first attempts were not well understood, at least...
Democracy, Coercion, & Liberty
I’m afraid that in our recent discussion of democracy and coercion the conversation tended to hew toward the relative merits of democracy rather than on what I think was my more important point: namely,...
continuity and the culture of death
1 a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings c: an organismic...
