@JPBarlow: Any man can get a job. It takes a real man to make it without one.
- Charles Bukowski
---Steve
Saturday, February 08, 2014
Friday, February 07, 2014
Should Pope Francis Rethink Abortion? - NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/should-pope-francis-rethink-abortion/
we realize that an early-stage embryo may be biologically human but still lack the main features — consciousness, self-awareness, an interest in the future — that underlie most moral considerations. An organism may be human by purely biological criteria, but still merely potentially human in the full moral sense. As we saw, Marquis's argument shows that killing a potential human is in itself bad, but there's no reason to think that we are obliged to preserve the life of a potential human at the price of enormous suffering by actual humans.
---Steve
we realize that an early-stage embryo may be biologically human but still lack the main features — consciousness, self-awareness, an interest in the future — that underlie most moral considerations. An organism may be human by purely biological criteria, but still merely potentially human in the full moral sense. As we saw, Marquis's argument shows that killing a potential human is in itself bad, but there's no reason to think that we are obliged to preserve the life of a potential human at the price of enormous suffering by actual humans.
---Steve
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince: War on Terror Has Become Too Big - The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/19/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-war-on-terror-has-become-too-big.html
America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security
---Steve
America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security
---Steve
Fifty States of Fear - NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/fifty-states-of-fear/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell, writing as World War II was drawing to a close in Europe, observed that "neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." Russell's point was that irrational fear can propel us into counterproductive activities, ranging from unjust wars and the inhumane treatment of others to more mundane cases like our failure to seize opportunities to improve our everyday lives.
---Steve
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell, writing as World War II was drawing to a close in Europe, observed that "neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." Russell's point was that irrational fear can propel us into counterproductive activities, ranging from unjust wars and the inhumane treatment of others to more mundane cases like our failure to seize opportunities to improve our everyday lives.
---Steve
Thursday, February 06, 2014
THE LAST DAYS OF TY COBB : A Man Possessed, He Played Baseball and Lived Life With a Deep Anger - Los Angeles Times
At 1 o'clock on the morning of the storm, full of pain and 90-proof, he took out the Luger, letting it casually rest between his knees. I had continued to object to a Reno excursion in such weather.
Slate: Answers for Creationists
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
---Steve
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
With Little Notice, Globalization Reduced Poverty
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/little-notice-globalization-reduced-poverty
We are in the midst of the fastest period of poverty reduction the world has ever seen. The global poverty rate, which stood at 25 percent in 2005, is ticking downwards at one to two percentage points a year, lifting around 70 million people – the population of Turkey or Thailand – out of destitution annually.
---Steve
We are in the midst of the fastest period of poverty reduction the world has ever seen. The global poverty rate, which stood at 25 percent in 2005, is ticking downwards at one to two percentage points a year, lifting around 70 million people – the population of Turkey or Thailand – out of destitution annually.
---Steve
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Article: Intel to top execs: Company doing better? OK, have a carrot
Intel to top execs: Company doing better? OK, have a carrot
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/04/intel_exec_pay_reorg/
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---Steve
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