Truth, Justice, and the American Way

If you don’t know what’s going on in Venezuela just yet, click on the link below.

For an overview, check out this article on their site: Is John Galt Venezuelan?

If someone were to sum up everything I ever found wrong with the state of modern philosophy, this would be it. Note the source.

This is pretty funny: U.S. food programs ‘make the poor obese’

“The U.S. government’s food aid programs for low-income people are contributing to the high obesity rates of America’s poor, according to a recent report from a Washington think thank.

In his paper, Besharov, director of AEI’s social and individual responsibility project, notes that that [...]

I’ve written a new essay on the nature of rights and government. Check it out: You Own Your Life!

In case you haven’t seen it before, I’ve recently updated my art gallery.

Also, check out another one of my recent projects.

Here is the headline from today’s MSNBC science story:
“A growing number of scientists say President Bush’s administration is distorting the scientific advisory process by appointing conservative ideologues to panels that are supposed to be impartial. They fear the appointments are politically motivated and meant to delay decision-making affecting controversial areas such as the environment, abortion [...]

Inspired by Tim’s letter to ArtRenewal.com, I wrote a an essay dedicated to the evils of modern art. Here is the intro:

Today’s rant is dedicated to the general and overwhelming mediocrity of “modern art”. No, “mediocre” is too mild a word. Modern art is horrible! Pathetic! Rubbish! It has about as much artistic value [...]

The speech went really well—we had over 160 people show up, and with the help of notecards for Q&A, there wasn’t any of the usual protest when it comes to abortion. Check out the photos.

I’ve set up a new site for Silas to spout off his crazy ideas.

Here is the letter I sent to the Batt today:

During the last two weeks, the A&M Objectivism Club has been organizing a speech called “Pro-Choice Is Pro-Life: The Philosophical Basis for a Woman’s Right to Abortion.” Because this is a very controversial topic, we expected a fair amount of controversy, but what we did [...]

Preparing for Dr. Bernstein’s speech this Wednesday has been more of a challenge than I expect. Today, I went on a flier run with Keenan and posted 500 flier within an hour. Unfortunately, the flier misspelled the word “Objectivist” as “Abjectivist,” though we figured people wouldn’t read that part anyway.

I am well aware that I have very unique, and in fact radical views on just about everything when compared to the rest the world. It is hard enough to find friends who share my views, and even harder to find girls who share enough of my view on life to start a relationship [...]

I was looking on ebay for an ICQ #, when I came across 5 AOL cd’s. I can’t believe anyone would pay $ for AOL cd’s but then people sell all kinds of crazy stuff on ebay, including snow, Grandma, kids, and even their virginity.

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MIAMI SETS RECORD COLD
What happened to global warming? Ah, that’s right, this cold front is part of an ecosytem too complex for supercomputers to understand. Oh well, let’s destory industrial civilization anyway so none of us will live long enought to worry about the [...]

In a long overdue update, I have updated my David and Friends photo albums.

Well, most of it. They cut out all the controversial and philosophical stuff. See the original, and the version they published.

Let me brag about my cool schedule for a minute. I am taking history of political thought (with all the classics, from Plato to Machiavelli), American political thought, American foreign policy, industrial organization, and economic development – definitely the best schedule I have had in my last four years at A&M!

From Drudge:

ON LARRY KING LIVE, PENN MADE A COMPELLING, FOCUSED CASE AGAINST THE IRAQI WAR, ADVOCATING DIALOGUE BEFORE BOMBS.

JOINED IN PROGRESS…

PENN: ...IT IS, UM, IMPORTANT. I AM RESPONSIBLE. WENT TO LEARN. I HAVE SEEN AND KNOW. YEAH, IT IS COMPLICATED. SURE, BAGHDAD. NO, MUCH IS REPELLENT ABOUT IT. WE HAVE FAMILIES. BELONG IN [...]

James Ostrowski has an interesting piece on Noam Chomsky in today’s Mises article. I knew Chomsky was a Marxist, but Ostrowski elegantly refutes his views, and shows just how clueless he is. Take a look!

Check out this SomethingAwful.com photoshop gallery: