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Licensed to kill
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Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about getting a blow job. But here we have President Obama, a constitutional lawyer and professor, who is technically now a dictator without anyone calling for im...
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Drunk parking
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Drunk parking? How do you go to jail from a DUI (DRIVING under the influence) in a car that WON'T START? Remind me again why the legal system is honorable and fair? I couldn't make this shit up if I...
Ron Paul didn't go far enough - unleash the retirement accounts
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Ron Paul just came out with a plan to cut $1 trillion from the US's federal budget and severely curtail entitlement programs. According to the "Plan to Restore America," it cuts $1 trillion in spendi...
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Synthesizing happiness
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Through Hamlet, Shakespeare said "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." You'd never believe it if someone told you the secret to happiness in life is to accrue wealth, power...
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The courage to resist
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Winning people's hearts and minds through ideas is one way to affect change, but it's a very, very slow process. Most would consider it "impractical." For those who want to implement change quicker,...
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Sex makes you smarter
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If you could trick your brain into perceiving an activity as pleasurable, thus activating dopamine receptors, could you enhance learning capacity? Do virtual simulations of people engaging in sex hav...
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Impossible to pay debts
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Ron Paul nails it again in the simplest of terms. Is it acceptable for someone to incur debt on your behalf and in your name if you don't know about it or, even worse, are opposed to it? Does it matt...
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Eviscerating global warming
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You don't say? Hey Al Gore, what do you think? FTA: "A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded tha...
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I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore
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FTV: "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work, or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are g...
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TIL: The media can legally lie
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Today I Learned that the media can legally lie. FTA: In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or...
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Two Grandmothers, Two Priests and a Nun go to Prison for Peace
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Two grandmothers, two priests and a nun were sentenced in federal court in Tacoma, WA Monday March 28, 2011, for confronting hundreds of US nuclear weapons stockpiled for use by the deadly Trident su...
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American Conspiracies
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FTA: "People prefer to be lied to ably, than be told the truth, boldly. We prefer a colorful and clever story to a documentary filled with sharp and damning evidence; we prefer gossip to investigatio...
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The natives are getting restless
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Are the natives getting restless? You bet they are. And the military is getting ready to crush it. See the article Officials and Experts Warn of Crash-Induced Unrest DISCUSS! Original posting b...
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Atlas Shrugged changes lives
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Noam Chomsky said Ayn Rand was "... one of the most evil figures of modern intellectual history." Yet I find Atlas Shrugged an amazing book (and so do many others, like the man who recently drove aro...
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The revolution for individual freedom and the principles of cooperation
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Throughout most of human civilization, centuries of men have starved, died from the elements (for lack of proper housing), suffered terrible health, and barely lived. Even today, starvation kills mil...
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Natural philosophy rocks
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Science rocks. It's a shame that it sometimes doesn't get the gratitude it deserves. Humans, by our nature, are curious about how the world works. Science helps us understand what reality is, and tha...
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Leonardo da Vinci's resume
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At one time in history, even Leonardo da Vinci himself had to pen a resume to explain why he was a qualified applicant. Here's a translation of his letter to the Duke of Milan, enumerating his many t...
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Action --> Reaction
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Newton's Third Law suggests that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Is it morally proper for people to develop into militias to defend themselves and act in defiance of terrori...
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Anarchy in the streets
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What do you mean people are actually capable of driving on the streets safely without signs?!? But that's unheard of! How absurd! It must be chaos! Complete craziness! How is it possible that people...
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Morality, politics, and reason
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Putting aside the debates as to whether or not social psychology is less rigorous because it is a soft science, or whether or not it is really science at all, how closely do our political choices mir...
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TIL "often a bridesmaid but never a bride" was to sell mouthwash
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Today I learned that the expression "often a bridesmaid but never a bride" was actually from an advertisement for mouthwash. The text of one of the original ads reads as follows: "Often a bridesma...
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Civil disobedience against the censors
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In his famous treatise On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argued that individuals can promote justice by disobeying the law. History is replete with examples of civil disobedience...
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Stop feeding the homeless
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Ron Paul has a sign in his office that says "Don't steal. The government hates competition." Did you know that applies to feeding the homeless as well? "Why" indeed. What do you think? FTA: "The N...
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US parallels to Nazi Germany
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They say that history repeats itself. Maybe that's the reason I'm never able to watch Schindler's List without bawling my eyes out. You don't have to be prescient to see the similarities already and...
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The simpler, the better?
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Albert Einstein once said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Although not supported by math or science, and certainly not an axiom of physics, Occam's Razor (or Ockh...
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TIL the first PC virus was called "brain" and the hackers were not anonymous
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Today I learned the first PC virus was called "brain" and was written in DOS only 25 years ago in 1986. The creators of the virus even gave their address. How did it move from PC to PC? Floppy disks...
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Why get married
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Another one in honor of V-day tomorrow: What is the purpose of getting married anymore? Why can't you just be in a monogamous relationships with someone that you love? Why do you need a piece of ...
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Killer viruses - should we make them?
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We all have previously learned about the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, which killed between 20-40 million people worldwide in our history classes. Now with the advance of modern molecular biology techn...
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I Yam What I Yam
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Who I am ain't nothing of what I am. Who I am, is who you see. Who you see isn't anything of what is me. I am me because I choose to be I am me Because I choose to be. I be...
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Perfectionism - doing better than your best
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In the movie The Rock, Sean Connery says to Nicholas Cage "Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen." There are those who think that perfection can be...
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DNA collection
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Will wonders never cease? California now has mandatory DNA collection from anyone arrested for a felony, whether or not they are ever charged or convicted. Instead of being limited to serious, violen...
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America's lights are going out
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Atlas Shrugged was not intended to be an instruction manual. Ayn Rand talked through Francisco d'Anconia about what it took to kill the motor of the world: "He stepped to the window and pointed to th...
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Scary - facts don't change our minds
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"Facts don't necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite." Before you read this article to determine where that conclusion came from, ponder that quote for a moment...
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People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
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The US government consists of a bunch of hypocrites. I know, tell you something you don't know, right? Recently, Hillary Clinton and her lackeys at the US State Department released the Country Re...
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Hero worship - no cape required
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Through John Galt, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand discussed the "hero in your soul" in her famous book Atlas Shrugged: "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless s...
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Art and 0 < 1
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Some claim that the reason music piracy is so prevalent is because the cost of music is so high (especially when the actual CD production costs are so low - a cursory look suggests it's less than $0....
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Too much weight
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No, this is not an article from The Onion: Weight Watchers clinic floor collapses under dieters - The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Sweden collapsed beneath a group of 20 members of the weight...
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Good will among men
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In her interview with Playboy, Ayn Rand stated "My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in h...
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Living your dreams
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As I get closer to formally launching the real-life dating website braincrave.com, I've spent a lot of time reading about how to advertise. Not having any real experience, I first turned to the maste...
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TIL 18 US veterans commit suicide every day and 1 million are in jail
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Today I learned that 18 US veterans commit suicide every day and 1 million veterans are sitting in jail. When Staff Sgt. Brad Eifert, 36, finally made his way to the woods behind his house with...
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Climate change from a historical perspective
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Politics destroys all things, it's latest casualty being scientific truth. When the global warming science fraud didn't work out, the propoganda artists changed the name to climate change. Here's a s...
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TIL ignorance begets confidence
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Ah, to be ignorant of your own ignorance... Today I learned that there is a psychological term for people who don't know stuff but are too incompetent to realize it and, therefore, suffer from an ill...
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Politics and philosophy - like water and oil
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Obama has a car czar, a food czar, a bank bailout czar, a poverty czar, bird flu czar, a czar czar... he has 37 czars in all. Interestingly enough, he doesn't have a philosophy czar. Perhaps you thin...
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Happy Secession Day
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On this July 4, when so many Americans are celebrating the so-called "Independence Day" by having picnics and shooting fireworks, there are others who think it's time to do it again. What do you thin...
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Ordered currency devaluation
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Previously, Anna Victoria, who lives under the terror of socialist Hugo Chavez, facilitated a great discussion on demagoguery back on Nov 30 (http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=17). Look now w...
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TIL the power of the scroll wheel in Firefox
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Today I learned the power of the scroll wheel in Firefox. You can use it to close tabs (click the scroll wheel on a tab), open hyperlinks in new pages (click the scroll wheel on a link), scroll throu...
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The failure of unions and socialism
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Someone once made a comment that he was 100% supportive of a tyrannical, socialist government as long as he was the only citizen of his country (paraphrased). Throughout the world, and especially in...
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Kony 2012: Pro-AFRICOM Propaganda by the Regime Change Machine?
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Thanks to the Land Destroyer blog for spotting this excellent analysis of what appears the next phase in false-flag interventionist propaganda -- the use of so-called "social media" with heavy celebr...
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TIL Einstein supported a one-world government and was a Socialist
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Today I learned Albert Einstein supported a one-world government and was a Socialist. Einstein's passionate commitment to the cause of global peace led him to support the creation of a single, u...
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The next big alternative fuel - salt water?
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In 2007, John Kanzius accidentally found a way to release and burn hydrogen from salt water with 13.56 MHz radio waves. Many people initially thought it was a hoax. Penn State professor Rustum Roy ve...
NY to ban salt at restaurants
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The New York legislature is trying to pass a bill that would ban restaurants from using salt in food preparations. No, this is not an article from The Onion. No, I am not making this up. Chefs Cal...
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The Road Not Taken
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The Road Not Taken (by Robert Frost) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To w...
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The Great Hoax of Equality
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History repeats itself. Men have constantly fought and died in the war for equality throughout the centuries. However, not all of them had in mind the same idea of equality when they gave their lives...
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Bearing responsibility for your own existence
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The higher your self-esteem, the more confidence you have in your ability to cope with life's never-ending challenges. Strong self-esteem is based on many factors, one of which is self-responsibility...
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Do you want to live forever?
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The mystical Fountain of Youth so long sought after... What if it were real, and the key to life could be discovered in an 18-year old girl that, for all intents and purposes, is a baby? What if, in...
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The myths of income equality
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Capitalism gets a bad rap, often claimed to be the destroyer of everything good. One argument made is that capitalism creates class warfare - the rich against the poor. So-called "social crusaders,"...
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Liberals (finally) speak out
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Guess you can't call them hypocrites for this particular action, unlike most liberals who railed against Bush but now ignore the fact that Obama has continued with (and gone beyond) Bush’s anti-ter...
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Abolish political parties and add none of the above
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Jesse Ventura, of wrestling, acting, and conspiracy theory fame, is disgusted with politics. (And anyone who isn't disgusting isn't sane.) So he's come up with some new ideas. What do you think el...
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TIL: Principles not based on majority vote
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Today I Learned that moral principles are not determined by majority vote. FTA: "A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device within...
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Could WikiLeaks have prevented 9/11?
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There is enough evidence now to implicate the US government of a massive cover-up of 9/11. At this point, it's ignorant to claim otherwise. Yet, the only ones who suffer from the terrible events of 9...
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Black Eyed Peas and the brain
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Is music lobotomizing the brains of youth? Is it purposefully making them "retarded in here?" And if you start singing Black Eyed Peas songs through the end of the day, it's not my fault. FTA: "Ha...
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Divorce - follow the money
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Among the New Year's resolutions made, it's likely that some have resolved to file for divorce this year. As always, the government is only too happy to help. Why? Any question about government start...
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Politicians causing problems in politics? Put them on pay-for-performance
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In the business world, most workers receive a base salary and then salary increases or bonuses based on performance. Performance can be measured by various factors, including company performance, ind...
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Socialism vs. Corporatism
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From the only honest person in American politics - Ron Paul... FTA: "Lately many have characterized this administration as socialist, or having strong socialist leanings. I differ with this character...
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Leaking classified information
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In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. They destroyed the government's credibility in the Vietnam War by revealing that the US government had intentionally misled...
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The ideology of carrots and sticks
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This animation drawing alone is enough reason to watch this video, even if you have no interest in the topic. It's amazing... FTV: "As long as the task involved used only mechanical skill... the h...
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Crime makes a comeback
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From the "you can't make this shit up" files... Through one of her villains, Ayn Rand wrote in Atlas Shrugged: "Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? ...We want them broken......
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Good form - etiquette and manners for politeness
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Good etiquette facilitates relationships, and good relationships help us live better lives. We've previously discussed proper manners in communications. Continuing in our etiquette and manners series...
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Flying cars outside of Second Life
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Is this a brilliant idea that will make the world a better place to live, or a disaster waiting to happen? Can someone loan me $200,000? Come on - you know you want one! Everyone sing with me! Chitty...
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Imagine... what a wonderful world it would be
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Aristotle spoke of music as having "influence over the character and the soul." He noted that "Rhythm and melody supply imitations of anger and gentleness, and also of courage and temperance, and of...
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War - a bankrupt ideology
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The purported anti-war left used to scream about the wars when Bush ruled. When Obama became ruler, they went silent (for the most part). After all, it's only unjustified violence and murder when the...
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TIL of paper that can be erased and reused 260 times
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Today I learned that there is a "paper" in production that can be erased and reused 260 times and currently costs about $2.00/sheet. (And we all know that, just like with any technology, that price w...
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Pronouncing moral judgment
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Sometimes it seems that the worse things get, the more we tolerate. It's not that we become impartial to a particular wrong, but it does seem that we often "sit on the fence" when we see wrongdoing....
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A Challenge - Defend Evolution Against Intelligent Design
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This challenge arose from a discussion in a large philosophy venue in which I stated that if ever a really competent intelligent design defender or evolutionist came around, he would blow the philoso...
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Basic economics at work
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Economics are very simple to understand. Granted, there are faux economists like Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman who try to confuse people with false theories that last only until other people's mone...
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Paying people not to work
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From Reader's Digest... Why do the lobbyists always win? Why does the political system even allow lobbyists to exist? Why are farm subsidies even allowed? Does this occur in other countries? FTA:...
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Mind your own business
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To claim that the US supports freedom (i.e., the absence of physical coercion) is nonsensical. Everything the US government does is anti-freedom. Take the situation in Egypt, for example. American ad...
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Slow down and smell the flowers
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On a cold January morning in 2007, a man played six Bach pieces on his violin for 43 minutes as about 1,000 people passed by. He started with one of the most difficult violin pieces in the world to m...
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The repeal of peace and goodwill
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During the holiday season, we typically hear cries for "peace on earth and goodwill toward all." It remains to be seen how this is possible when the US (purportedly) spends $660 billion on military...
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Dealing with emotional pain
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Sadists are those who enjoy giving pain. Masochists are those who enjoy receiving pain. However, most of us attempt to avoid pain, especially emotional pain. In fact, research suggests that emotional...
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Ron Paul in charge of Federal Reserve?
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More than any other politician by a Grand Canyon-wide margin, Ron Paul is a man of impeccable character when it comes to supporting the ideas of freedom and "is a force for good." (He easily won his...
Good advice
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What is the best advice you've ever received in life? DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Mar 11, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=135
Defending economic morality
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The collectivists assert the socialist moral imperative that the highest good for each individual is to live for the sake of others (e.g., for the good of "society"). Marx summed it up perfectly: "Fr...
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What are your deep thoughts? Send us an article for publication!
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Our members think INTELLIGENCE IS HOT! That's one of the primary reasons they're here - to seek it out. Our members want their minds stimulated. But of what use is your copious thought if you're not...
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Mock burglaries
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Talk about creating an atmosphere of fear... FTA: "It was meant to be an imaginative way of hammering home the message that some householders are making life too easy for burglars. But police were un...
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Immoral professions
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H.L. Mencken once said "A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." I'm not sure who is more morally corrupt - a judge, a lawyer, or a politician. What I do know is that, collecti...
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Obama protects Cheney from war crimes
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The so-called rule of law in the US is a big joke. You really need more proof? Dick Cheney, former vice president to George Bush, went on TV on Feb 14 to assert he is "a big supporter of waterboardin...
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What really matters in life - it should be our first lecture
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Life is a constant struggle, especially because the lessons we learn are oftentimes knowledge gained after we really needed it. It's one of the reasons mentors are so important - they've "been there,...
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Objective truths and abortion
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There's a new 5-day "morning-after" pill that's been tested for US approval (New 5-Day 'Morning-After' Pill Tested For U.S. Approval). Some people say the choice to abort is moral and use various...
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TIL about StumbleUpon toolbar options
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For those of you who aren't familiar with it, StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that shows you random web pages based upon categories that you like. It learns very quickly what you like and don't lik...
Science is racist
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So we had a great discussion earlier today about scientific theories vs. laws, physics, astronomy, and geometry. Science is so amazing! And then I read something like this and it makes me sick. Hi...
Morals vs. preferences
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Morality is basically the principles/ideals that should direct everyone's conduct. What is it that makes moral fundamentals different than personal preferences (if there is, in fact, any difference a...
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Does porn hurt relationships? Science says no
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Porn is like bacon: some won't eat it for religious reasons, some consider it filthy, some feel guilty after eating it, but everyone else (which is most of the population) loves it. Funny enough, sci...
Nuclear No-Contest
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Before the 1950s, the future confronting the human race was bleak. With the global population increasing and becoming more dependent on energy-dense technologies to sustain its food supplies and risi...
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To cut, or not to cut
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Why is circumcision such a common practice in North America? Does it really make a penis healthier and look "prettier?" You have this beautiful baby boy and after coddling him and caring for him, you...
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Opening the lives of the lonely
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Orson Welles once wrote: "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." In addition to our daily...
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The deception of higher education
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The typical four-year college degree has large costs, but it's questionable whether the benefits are usually there. In fact, students who secure college degrees are increasingly unlikely to make up t...