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"Legal Formalism and Legal Realism: What is the Issue?"
Right-Wing Craziness about "Accountability" Will Destroy Texas A&M University
Different views on holidays in the US versus UK
What Obama Might Have More Accurately Said About the Criminal War of Aggression Against Iraq
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Want to Rule Britain?
14 Tenured Professors at Southern Mississippi To Be Terminated
Signs of the Apocaplyse in America, Part 248
When will the GOP make up its mind about Barack Obama?
Now we learn that a majority of US Republicans actually believe that Obama wants to impose Sharia Law on the US and abroad(!) (Note: seriously, readers, I wish I were making this up!)
I don't know anyone who thinks that somebody who has sympathies with leftwing politics (and not necessarily socialist politics) would want to impose Sharia Law. So last year Obama is a dangerous socialist and now a majority believe he holds perhaps more extreme conservative views than they do? Bizarre. Of course, it's even more bizarre given Obama's views on any number of social policies....and even more bizarre than that given he is instead a devout Christian.
So what explains why Republican Party members go from one extreme (and ill-informed) view of Barack Obama to the next without any sense of contradiction and completely ill-informed? Well, one reason might be that members want to scaremonger, but I suspect the reason is something worse . . .
More Trouble for the University of California: 20 Billion Dollar Pension Fund Shortfall
Signs of the Apocalypse in America, Part 247
Upcoming Conference: "Ethics, Imagination, Forms of Life" and the Work of Cora Diamond, Sept 13-15
Basically, Kant Was Right
A commentator notes that I never posted my Kant song here. Let me rectify (or wrongify) that now.
I wrote this song as an entry for the Nottingham philosophy department’s 2010 contest for the Matheson-Smart Cup for Total Bull. To compete for the cup, you pick as implausible a thesis as you can think of and mount such defence of it as you can muster. Most people do not sing. I came third, securing a respectable number of votes purely by threatening to sing again (louder) in the event of my not winning. This totally unplugged live performance is intended to enable viewers to experience something as close as possible to the actual event, with respect to sound quality among other things. I have blurred the image as I was the last entrant to perform and beer and wine had been available for three hours by that time.