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(04/26/07 4:00am)
Earlier this year, my parents packed their bags for Iraq while my older brother chastised them for ignoring God's message of peace. My younger brother quickly followed. They have been there for months. My parents send e-mails about falling asleep to the sound of mortars exploding in Baghdad. My brother calls periodically and tells us horror stories. Thus far, he has gotten a concussion from the reverberation of a bomb, ridden in a boat, which, he later discovered, had a bomb attached to its side (it just didn't happen to go off) and he has been shot at by Iraqi soldiers. I worry that there are worse things he just doesn't say. Given my family situation, it is not surprising that I have become more and more interested in intervention and its justifications.
(04/12/07 4:00am)
I am a philosophical anarchist. The idea of a group of people coming together and imposing their will on others is morally abhorrent to me. It is probably morally abhorrent to most people. However, public opinion changes when that majority claims to be working towards the common good, when they are acting on behalf of the state.
(03/29/07 4:00am)
Last Thursday was the United Nation's World Water Day. The day is meant to promote awareness about water resources, scarcity and development. This year's theme was "coping with water scarcity."
(03/08/07 5:00am)
Once upon a time, the environment was important, but left mostly to the elites who understood it. Scientists and other well-read professionals concerned themselves with environmental problems and advised governments on the relevant issues. This was known as the era of conservationism. Once upon a time, environmentalism was about science, reason and the careful balancing of many factors.
(03/01/07 5:00am)
As a libertarian, I am philosophically opposed to government transfers of wealth. Period. As a concerned citizen, though, I am more comfortable with transfers of wealth that accomplish their aims of increased equality and living standards for the poor than I am with those that don't.
(02/22/07 5:00am)
Last Thursday I found myself very cold. Need you ask why? I was fighting for freedom, protesting the arrest and confinement of an Egyptian blogger. What can I say, it's what I do.
(02/08/07 5:00am)
I never found the nuts and bolts of student loans to be particularly interesting. I was clearly just going to take out as many loans as I needed to go to college at the lowest interest rate I could find. Then, I was going to sell my soul to Satan for several years paying them back. It all seemed very straightforward.
(01/25/07 5:00am)
When I was 17, a younger friend of mine had an abortion. I was the only one she told. We were both pro-life, but her family was traditionally Mexican and she probably would have been disowned if they had found out. Despite my disgust with abortion, I was her confidant throughout the experience. I told her that it was a baby, it may very well be a person and that it would be morally irreprehensible to chance a murderous act instead of taking responsibility for her actions. When she got back from the clinic, I gave her a hug and told her that everything would be okay. It was.
(12/04/06 5:00am)
Cuba and the United States are not the closest of allies. There was that whole Cuban Missile Crisis thing during the Cold War. More recently, in 1996, the Cuban military felt it necessary to shoot down two of our planes. The U.S. developed five different plans for assassination of Fidel Castro between 1961 and 1963 and has been trying to bring down Cuba's communist government ever since.
(11/13/06 5:00am)
I must admit that I haven't been rabidly fixated on the television this election cycle. Once the results seemed more or less final, I decided that I should probably evaluate the damage that had been done.
(10/30/06 5:00am)
The other day I was sitting in a bar, smoking a much deserved cigarette, when I noticed a "no smoking" sign on the wall. I am a regular at this particular bar and happen to know that smoking is permitted. The bar was clearly preparing for January.
(10/12/06 4:00am)
Educational policy should not be about ideology. Once the vast majority of the population has come to the conclusion that the state should be involved in education, there is only be one question left to ask: What is best for the children?
(10/02/06 4:00am)
If you've been reading the news lately, you may have come across some talk of the Food and Drug Administration's latest approval. Vectibix is a drug used to treat colorectal cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States. The drug has been shown to slow tumor growth and, in some cases, reduce the size of tumors. According to the FDA, 55,000 deaths will occur from colon and rectal cancer in 2006.
(09/18/06 4:00am)
When I tell people that I'm a classic liberal, they usually give me a confused look and ask me what the hell I'm talking about. At this point I bite the bullet and admit that the more common term for my political affiliation is Libertarian. Undoubtedly they reply, "Oh, so you're a conservative who smokes pot."