Over at Popehat, in the spirit of the Christmas, Ken White has suggested three charities you could donate to this season. Although I have no problem with donating to any of them, I thought I'd offer a few suggestions of my own.To start with, I'm a regular donor to the Reason Foundation. This is the parent organization of Reason magazine, which is the flagship libertarian … [Read more...] about The Giving Season
Ye Olde Ethics Alarms
I just went through yet another argument about illegal immigrants in the comments at Jack Marshall's Ethics Alarms blog. Jack has been a frequent source of blogging ideas (at least when I used to blog more), but he's been kind of hard to take ever since Donald Trump was elected. It's not that he likes Trump, but he's clearly attracted to Trump's authoritarianism, especially … [Read more...] about Ye Olde Ethics Alarms
The Dumbest Take Yet On the Whitefish Energy Scandal
I know I shouldn't be picking on left-leaning goofballs (because they're powerless these days, and all the damage is being done by the right) but Kate Aronoff at In These Times has written the dumbest thing I've seen yet about the Whitefish Energy scandal.The article is titled "Repulsed by Whitefish Energy? Maybe You Also Hate Capitalism." That sounds like it might be a … [Read more...] about The Dumbest Take Yet On the Whitefish Energy Scandal
The Unknown Reason for the Vegas Shooting
Like everybody else, I've been trying to make sense of the Las Vegas shooting, in which a 64-year-old guy named Stephen Paddock apparently opened fire on a crowd of 22,000 country music festival attendees from his 32nd-floor room in the Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 59 people and injuring hundreds more.One of the confusing things about this horrible incident is that from what … [Read more...] about The Unknown Reason for the Vegas Shooting
Football Players and Legs
But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVII (source) Jefferson was talking about freedom of religion, but truth be told, I feel the same way about whether professional athletes stand or kneel while the American national anthem … [Read more...] about Football Players and Legs