Travis County co-chair of The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law
Austin, TX
Joined August 2012
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If you're wondering what University* of Austin students are learning about the left, this is the reading** list for a course called "The Left's War on Reality".
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On the early internet, back in the 90s, I hung out in a lot of music fora. There are certain artists that the people who spent their time in those corners of the Internet loved back then that I never hear about anymore. I heard one the other day, and now I'm obsessed.
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Everyone trying to develop a global narrative from data like this is too caught up in their own motivations to be able to think at all. These posts merely restate the person's motivations.
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One sign that public schools are fucked is that teachers have to constantly ask for parents to donate basic school supplies like printer ink.
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The job prospects of philosophy postgrads have the subject of countless jokes for decades. Nobody's going into a philosophy graduate program of any sort thinking they're gonna get rich doing philosophy.
Unless they are sociopaths and go into medical ethics, of course.
Professors should also value the life conditions of the students and tell them pursuing a philosophy PhD will lead to diminished income and insecure employment at best, and not just see them as bots producing academic work to encourage
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There are many things that suck about American politics, of course, but one of them is that I, in Texas, have to be aware that Haley Stevens exists at all.
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The 6yo reads pretty well, but like all young readers, struggles with unfamiliar words with non-phonetic spellings, most of which came to English from French.
William's still wreaking havoc almost a full millennium later.
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I've posted this somewhere on social media on Halloween for 20 straight years. youtu.be/BjMiDZIY1bM?is=RDGD…
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Working my way through 90s hip hop this week, and remembered that I saw these guys play TWICE in one weekend, including this show, 11 years ago. I've been to a handful of shows that were religious experiences, and this was one of them: youtu.be/HRlpTve7ytA?is=5q1t…
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Thomas Nagel, of all people, had already rendered Nozick's argument toothless in a paragraph in his review of ASU by the time it got to Cohen. Maybe the problem isn't that the left doesn't read Nozick, but that everyone acting like that's true doesn't read philosophy at all.
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You can read the whole review here. Nozick really was a great reviewer of books by other analytic philosophers: fair, thorough, and at times devastating. openyls.law.yale.edu/server/…
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The first graduate political philosophy course I took was a small seminar in which we spent 2 weeks absolutely tearing Nozick apart. I assume this is standard in political philosophy courses, because for all his faults, he writes clearly with straightforward arguments.
Reposting this banger from @ContraPoints.
Leftists overestimate themselves massively. They're not nearly as eclectically well-read as they think they are.
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Just heard a loud noise outside my window, so I went outside to look, a possum the size of a friggin' dog was ambling along the fence. What the hell to is that possum eating? Ticks feeding on someone taking steroids?
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One of the 6yo's favorite things to do is to take out a ton of books, then before she can finish them all take out a ton more. I didn't know this behavior was genetic.
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After reading In a Dark Wood Wondering, and then his poetry, I now see this as the anniversary of Charles I, Duke of Orléans' capture.
On this date in 1415 the battle of Agincourt took place. A fascinating bit of history that also gave us Shakespeare's masterpiece 'Henry V' and several glorious films.
Here are clips from 3 films showing the famous, delicious, rousing speech:
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