Ethics and Moral Philosophy Why should abortion be a matter of public policy? 1 Jun 2009 Something I don’t get, possibly because I’m a white male, is why we should pay any attention in the public domain to the concerns various people have about abortion. If Catholics don’t like it, don’t do it. If Protestants don’t like it (and that is something that only arose in… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Gore, peace and the “errors” 12 Oct 2007 The International Herald Tribune worries that Gore’s receiving the Peace Prize is going to denigrate the award because it “strays from traditional Nobel definitions of peace work”. Huh. As Tom Lehrer said, when Henry Kissinger can win the Peace Prize, the time for political satire is long past. If anything,… Read More
Evolution Evolution quotes: Socialism 9 May 20129 May 2012 To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already… Read More
Americans are lucky now. They can vote a bad king out of office, rather than having to commit sedition and high treason and wage war to do it. For now, at least.
Unless I’m confused, Aaron has the same ability to vote an American president out of office as I do, ie. none (minor matter of citizenship and a border).
If bad ol’ King GWB really wanted to see the how warlike Americans can be all he would have to do is try to prevent his replacement by election. This country would be ungovernable by a dictator, but we have some, ableit old, experience at civil war. Sincerely,
People do not remain constant over time. Your grandparents’ generation might have fought. I worry about this one. This is so much like last days of the Roman Republic.
What is sad is not that you are right, but that you are half right. The most belligerent of Americans are precisely those who support the belligerency of Bush. Those most likely to oppose him are the least likely to have the skill necessary and it is a foregone conclusion whose side the U.S. military would be on. Sincerely,