The next several years after the 1977 Camaro was sold could be considered the dark ages, but that puts a negative connotation on an exciting period of my life. My…
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The next several years after the 1977 Camaro was sold could be considered the dark ages, but that puts a negative connotation on an exciting period of my life. My…
When it comes to practicality, it is hard to get less practical than a Corvette. But, I managed to succeed. While a Corvette has seating for only 2 people and…
I’ve always sort of had this dissatisfaction with what I had and a desire for more. While this can sometimes be translated as “ambition” as a young adult, it led…
The 70s were an amazing time to be a kid To be a kid in the 70s – especially a boy – was an amazing time. We got the first…
If you’ve been here before, things likely look different. I have redesigned and replatformed this site and plan on posting here more frequently again. There was once a time when…
Those readers who follow me on Twitter are likely already very aware of where I stand, politically. To put it bluntly, I’m very liberal. One area where I disagree strongly with many other liberals is in my stance on guns.
I’ve posted on this topic before. Naturally, in the wake of yet another mass shooting in America, it is on my mind again. As of right now there have been 290 school shootings in the United States since 2013. No other country has more than 18 mass shooters. This is horrible and it keeps happening. …
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is what Jeremy Bentham stated as the goal of Utilitarianism. But this isn’t to say that our goal is simple “pleasure”. John Stuart Mill, for instance, differentiated between “higher pleasures”, which are intellectual and moral, and “lower pleasures”, which are purely physical. In my view, it also implies …
On Tuesday November 8th, I was in Amsterdam with Job van Achterberg. I did a presentation for Fronteers monthly meetup. The organizers of Fronteers had set Job and I up in a fantastic venue to do a couple of accessibility talks. It was a TV studio that also had a bar. Fronteers brought in food …
I feel strongly that every person has an intrinsic sense of what is “right” and what is “wrong”. Parents can observe this in their children when they’re very young. Take a toy away from a toddler and the result will be a howling child. Sigmund Freud would identify this as the ‘Id’ in action. The …