April 08, 2012 12:32AM
“Early Retirement Extreme”
About: Enough
April 08, 2012 12:31AM
“How much is "enough"? This probably isn't what you envisioned, but Early Retirement Extreme claims that $7K/yr is "enough", in th…”
About: Enough
February 21, 2011 08:51PM
“CA: I disagree with you on every example. Yes, I think tin cans would be conscious -- although you underestimate the scale. "The size of the ear…”
About: Humanity in Jeopardy!
February 21, 2011 06:16PM
“Stever: (Old times sake: Go, Gompers!) You're right, further work would be needed to figure out what those past forces were, and whether they still op…”
About: Humanity in Jeopardy!
February 21, 2011 04:59PM
“CA: Some tech geeks believe, with reasonable evidence, that human consciousness is also nothing more than (or at least, equivalent to) some clanking ch…”
About: Humanity in Jeopardy!
February 21, 2011 01:51PM
“Kent, new jobs didn't happen on the time scale of the first year or two. You are right that a new group of previously-immune people are being replaced.…”
About: Humanity in Jeopardy!
February 21, 2011 12:59PM
“The original Luddites worried that looms would displace skilled seamstresses. 150 years ago, 3/4 of the US population was involved with agriculture; t…”
About: Humanity in Jeopardy!
December 07, 2010 06:14PM
“Obama respond s.”
About: Facing the Truth (with bonus comic)
November 28, 2009 06:05PM
“Whatever one might think of the behavior of the banks, and however surprised some people might be to get hit with all those fees, it's actually the cas…”
About: Over-the-top Overdraft Fees
November 28, 2009 06:01PM
“Kent: I suspect the overdraft fees actually are mentioned in the fine print on bank account contracts ... only, hardly anybody ever reads the fine prin…”
About: Teetering on the Brink of Moral Bankruptcy
November 22, 2009 05:41PM
“Rick asks: "Are there any issues that are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution but that are removed from states’ authority?" TR 30;”
About: Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters
November 22, 2009 05:21PM
“Kent wrote: "I take what you're saying to imply that Roe is just lucky to be good law" Ah! Well put. Yes, that's a nice concise way to descr…”
About: Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters
November 22, 2009 05:16PM
“Kent, as you say your post is about Stare Decisis. and explicitly not about the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade. (Which is a refreshing perspective t…”
About: Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters
November 22, 2009 05:02PM
“Kent: Wow! That was a long, well-researched post. I'm impressed! On the minor topic of hysteresis, I think you dismiss the anti-abortion complaints to…”
About: Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters
November 22, 2009 04:48PM
“FLW wrote: "abortion was still legal in 1789. It was not criminalized until the 19th century, so to claim that abortion is not allowed by the Cons…”
About: Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters
November 18, 2009 06:31PM
“Kent, I've heard others make your comparison between Bush and Palin before. It's a good observation; there are a surprising number of common features.…”
About: Who Will Be Sarah Palin’s Darth Vader?
November 16, 2009 11:57AM
“Kent wrote: Don, the phrase you want is “not convincing to me.” In fact, I found the argument about the flatworm to be very well-formed and…”
About: Seeing Roe v. Wade as a Political Compromise
November 16, 2009 10:24AM
“Kent: Ah, but I think the problem is that you're not fully seeing the issue from the perspective of the pro-life people. For them, the fertilized egg…”
About: The Elusive Nature of Fairness
November 15, 2009 11:29PM
“Roy wrote: A bundle of cells without a nervous system isn't a person, period. Nor is a bundle of cells with a nervous system no more developed than tha…”
About: Seeing Roe v. Wade as a Political Compromise
November 15, 2009 11:21PM
“Kent, I can think of even further extremes on your spectrum of possibilities. On the right, why is conception the magic point? A fertilized egg is mere…”
About: Seeing Roe v. Wade as a Political Compromise
November 15, 2009 11:05PM
“Kenneth (and Kent): Rawl's Veil of Ignorance is a great way to think about things, but it doesn't really solve many of the hard ethical problems. The…”
About: The Elusive Nature of Fairness
November 15, 2009 01:43AM
“Al & Kent, re: Tax code. I'm sure there's lots of the corruption and pandering that you're talking about, going on in the tax code. But that's no…”
About: The Elusive Nature of Fairness
October 29, 2009 08:33PM
“Kent, I apologize for calling your "brother" a loser. You're correct, that was uncalled for, and probably just wrong. His anti-adoption stanc…”
About: My Brother Is Pregnant
October 29, 2009 06:35PM
“Abortion is such an emotional issue (spurred by ethics and religion, often), that it's hard for most people to hear the words of your cost/benefit anal…”
About: My Brother Is Pregnant
October 24, 2009 11:21AM
“We'll have to see what the black box says. The pilots might be really stupid. They've claimed that they were arguing, but the recordings might just s…”
About: The Plane Truth about Northwest Flight 188?
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