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The Libertarian Standard

April 8, 2010 @ 9:47 am

There’s a new website and group blog in town, by a great group of radical Austro-Libertarians, including yours truly. It’s The Libertarian Standard. I’ve been pre-occupied with admin work for the site the past couple weeks, getting it set up and looking nice, but I’ll be getting around to blogging relatively soon. I’ll probably be [...]

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Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court‘s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book. I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of [...]

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Published: My JLS Atlas Shrugged Article, Finally!

November 12, 2009 @ 11:20 am

The “final” issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is finally available online, although it looks like there will be one more final issue for all the other accepted but unpublished articles. This is the Atlas Shrugged Symposium issue, the last issue edited by Roderick Long, and I’m proud to say it includes an article [...]

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Oughtism and Its Cure

May 29, 2009 @ 2:06 pm

I decided to rename my blog “Is-Ought GAP: The Cure for Oughtism,” simultaneously turning separate eristic jokes by Stephan Kinsella and another libertarian on their heads.1 The following are some excerpts from two sections of one chapter of Veatch’s For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory. Veatch calls the mentality he [...]

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My dissertation is completed, approved and now online

January 21, 2009 @ 2:01 pm

Well, I finally finished my dissertation and now it’s available online for anyone to read. I actually defended it on December 2nd. My committee approved it under the condition that I make some revisions, which is not an unusual occurrence. They mainly wanted me to flesh out and clarify some things in chapters five and [...]

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The New Apple iMissile

September 18, 2008 @ 12:17 am

In recent news, Apple has joined the military-industrial complex. Get ready to say hello to the new iMissile. No offense, fanboys and girls. It’s my first LOLcat. Like it? (I added just the Apple logo and the text, someone else had already put the cat in.)

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Recipe: Spiced Basmati Rice with Peanuts

September 11, 2008 @ 7:21 pm

Ingredients 1 cup uncooked basmati rice 2 tbsp vegetable oil or ghee (clarified butter) or combination 2 14oz cans tomatoes (I prefer one can diced, the other petite cut/diced) 1/2 medium onion, diced 5 medium cloves garlic, diced 1 jalapeno, diced 1/2 cup Planter’s cocktail peanuts 2 tsp cumin seed 1/2 tsp turmeric powder 1 [...]

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George Carlin: If you vote, you have no right to complain

August 27, 2008 @ 11:45 am
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