I had forgotten about this blog...

Possibly because it doesn't exist...or at least so says the title.

Seems like I've managed to screw something up on my template for Covblogs, so maybe this is all that I have for a while. I think I might have lost my entries' permalinks. Maybe I can find a link to one of them on the Internet & get to it that way...

Having Peter Singer edit Blackwell's Companion to Ethics is like having the Weathermen edit the companion to politics.

I was going to say Hitler, but Nazi jokes are just too obvious. And Singer's more of a moral anarchist in effect - more left-wing than right. Although his extreme utilitarianism is, in theory, not anarchic at all, but actually quite rigorous. Inhuman(e)ly rigorous.

"Liberalism" : the Word, the Entity

I do want to distance myself from the word "liberal" since it has become a pejorative term for the left, just as "fundamentalist" has for the right. Witness the amount of time Kerry & Edwards spent trying to convince people they weren't "liberal," or at least "too liberal." Of course the Ludwig von Mises "classic liberalism" crowd (today we call them libertarian - look 'em up at Mises.org, they're fascinatingly and intelligently wrong-headed) tries to argue that this isn't what "liberal" used to mean - it simply mean "individual freedom, pursuit of life, liberty, and property" Declaration of Independence-type stuff. But they're arguing against centuries of usage. The meaning has shifted and now I would argue that the use of such terms is unhelpful, at best. Connotation has swallowed up denotation.

This is a test, this is only a test (repeat)...

In the incestuous wasteland that is the Internet, I have now three (yes, that's right three) blogs. Of course, one is defunct and this one is only so I can comment on other peep's Blogger blogs, but anyway. This entry is definitely (definitively) pointless.