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Political correctness is bullshit. Just look at the term itself: political = for reasons of politics, correctness = right, meaning in terms of procedure, not right in terms of morality. A collection of points about it that should give you a better picture of my overall feeling about it:
The biggest myth about PC is that […]
First of all, this is going to be a very long and very disconnected post, for reasons I will go into later in the post.
“Experiments”
While most college students are known for their “experiments” with various things [I won’t go into my thoughts on this for fear of losing my entire viewership], I have preferred instead […]
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about intelligence: what it is, how to define it, how to measure it, where it comes from, can it be increased, etc. Although I’ve by no means made a final decision, here are some of my feelings about it:
Nature vs. Nurture: While I think you’re definitely born with […]
I started reading the blog of one of Tim’s favorite sci-fi authors: William Gibson. I have yet to read anything by him, but I plan on getting right on it soon. In any case, this is the first blog I’ve seen written by a self-professed centrist, or one who said that he’d be fine “with […]
The Tampa Tribune, has published an article entitled Why We Cannot Endorse President Bush For Re-Election. Hardly the liberal bastion of Florida, the Tribune has (as they themselves state in the beginning of the article) “endorsed a Republican for president ever since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, with one exception.”
While it may come as no […]
They say Las Vegas is “America’s Playground,” but after spending 3 days there, I’d describe it more as “America’s Anti-Playground.” Why?
What is a playground? A playground is where my friends and I spent several hours every day playing on the slides, the swings, the merry-go-rounds, running and laughing and discussing the important things of life. […]
Wow, I was blown away by this 4-part discussion of which constitutes “high art” in our times (movies or books). As someone who tries hard to keep up with the tide of amazingly good movies being released year after year (and which shows no signs of being stemmed) [and while many of these are not […]
Although gaffes like “You Forgot Poland!,” jumping the gun when given the chance to speak, repeating himself several times, and frequently stumbling while trying to say things earned Bush the most notoriety from the debates, I was much more worried to see that several vital points that Kerry made went completely unrefuted. We all already […]