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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
~Emily Dickinson
I have...
Let me be clear: I hate sleep.
There's been a campaign going on around the blogosphere for awhile, advocating that MSNBC ban Pat Buchanan from appearing on the network. Buchanan is...
Good morning, Planeteers!
I trust you all are doing okay, having come through all this angst. Now that Congress is on their five-week PAID vacation,...
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
~Henry David Thoreau
Love, friendship and respect do not...
Remember that Monty Python skit where the Texas movie producer gets a bunch of screenwriters in a room and badgers them all until they...
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~B. F. Skinner
The year is 2110. IBM has just completed work on the...
Reid insisted in 2010 that delaying the debt ceiling vote would ensure that the Republicans would own part of the responsibility. And so we find ourselves on the brink of disaster.
When I was a junior in high school, in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term, I took a course in civics. Back then,...
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
~Desiderius Erasmus
Welcome back to a new chapter of Exploring Morality. In this chapter...