There are many philosophers who claim that the most rational default mental position is one of pessimism; while I understand where they are coming from (pessimistic people are more careful, more discriminating), I have to disagree. Given sufficient evidence, I think we should be as pessimistic or as optimistic as is justified by the situation; [...]
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The always-insightful Walter Williams comments on Haiti; and the political climate that made this earthquake so disastrous. Some expect Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California’s 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, resulting in 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The 1906 [...] Watch as Prof. David Zetland explains how to sell a dollar for more then a dollar: I don’t really want to find a new quote for each day; that would be incredibly annoying, and fill up my blog with fluff (and not the fun kind of fluff either, like dancing parrots.) But I do want to test the block quotes function on WordPress. So, for today only, I will post [...] |
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