More on Methodological Naturalism: Much of the confusion and disagreement seems to revolve around definitions – it is difficult to find common ground when people are using different specific definitions for the same words. This is a common problem in philosophy, which seems to multiple terms with subtle distinctions, and has been further magnified by [...]

The new issue of Otoliths (#11) is up. Feast on some poetry this morning.

I didn’t grow up in that country -I don’t know what your talking about, lady. Then again, I was raised as a free-thinker in a secular nation that just happens to be mostly judeo-christian -one where freedom from the government was the driving force behind its inception. I must have grown up in a parallel [...]

Or something like that. I always find the fallout from my drunken Facebook escapades to be best enjoyed with a hot cup of coffee. Last night’s was one of the best yet. I think I might have managed to piss off quite a bit of my extended family, which makes me wonder why I have [...]

I really do need to move to Austin. Some of my friends are all for it, while others are like, “Texas?!” (and I’m like, “dude, you’re from Georgia…”) All places are more or less the same, but some places have better music/fun. And I hear the Linguistics program at UT Austin is pretty good.

It’s true. I bet there will be a police report on these folks getting beat up soon enough.

So I attempted a standard book-store pickup on a girl (“The Idiot, huh? Pretty heady stuff… blah, blah, blah…”) earlier this evening. Which was going well until her mother approached and I realized she wasn’t quite as old as she appeared to be. Which made me feel dirty. And old. Dirty and old. So I [...]

The New Yorker has a very good run-down of Bob Barr (that libertarian guy, again!?) up. It’s worth reading, especially if you’re undecided or “grudgingly voting for Obama because McSucks sucks.” It also explains a little about libertarians and why they’re viewed as wackos (principals don’t go far these days, where pragmatism is king). It [...]

The Po-Po in Baltimore pulling shenanigans. They can seize any dirt-bike they see, basically. Property rights, you say? Not when that property may have annoyed someone. Not News. The definition. When reporting a crime is illegal, only criminals will report crime? Wait, what? A review of bad porn. Which is more of an excuse for [...]

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