Gay Marriage

“There is something like an emerging consensus. Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying. It’s old people.”

-- George F. Will

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Controlling the Internet

Apparently there is a movement by authoritarian governments to transfer control over the Internet to the United Nations. I trust that even liberals, who often favor a more UN-centric and less US-centric world, would prefer that this transfer does not happen.

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Nietzsche

Like Socrates, Nietzsche had examined himself. Like Plato, he was willing to legislate for others, if only as a ventriloquist speaking through his fictive prophet Zarathustra. But unlike the ancient philosophers from Aristotle to Augustine, Nietzsche’s transparently fictive prophet will not command obedience to any single set of positive precepts and beliefs, embodied in word and deed. For like Montaigne, Nietzsche had found himself to be a creature in flux, a pure potentiality for being, uncertainly oriented toward what had previously been held to be the good, the true, and the beautiful. And as a result, he will have his Zarathustra, like Emerson, preach a gospel of self-reliance.

-- James Miller, “Examined Lives”

Miley, Baby

Oh, Miley! Nice Boobage. It even makes up for the hair.

(Source: ONTD)