Year: 2010
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Best of 2010
by Jason Stotts Here are what I consider ten of my best essays from 2010. It was a big year for Erosophia as we got our own hosted website here on www.JasonStotts.com and moved all of the old essays from the former blogs here. It’s also been the year with the most number of posts…
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HIV Cure?
by Jason Stotts The Huffington Post is reporting that a man who underwent stem cell treatment for leukemia has had his HIV cured as a result: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,”…
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DADT On Its Way Out
by Jason Stotts The Senate today voted 65-31 to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), the policy that banned openly gay members of armed services. This is great news and they need to speed this process along and make it official. WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday voted to strike down the ban on gay…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the December 16, 2010 edition of The Objectivist round up! It is customary for the host to put up a short epigraph at the beginning of each carnival, usually a quote from Ayn Rand. Permit me to break tradition, but this week’s quote is from Avicenna: Anyone who denies the Law of Non-Contradiction…
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Merry Christmas!
by Jason Stotts I put this up last year and I like it so much, I’m putting it up again this year. It’s not that I consider myself a militant atheist, it’s more that I consider myself militantly for reason. Without further ado, a poster for the holiday season.
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Shamenorming
by Jason Stotts I recently had a conversation with someone who argued that slut shaming was dead and that it didn’t happen anymore. I haven’t heard such a naive and fanciful position since religion. For those who have any doubts, here are two very sad stories of slut-shaming. These are certainly not outliers, but just…
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Major Setback for Obamacare
by Jason Stotts In case you somehow missed the news, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that individual insurance mandate of Obamacare unconstitutional. While this puts us down 2-1 for federal cases on Obamacare, hopefully it will be overturned by the Supreme Court as the clear violation of rights that it is. (NYTimes, Bloomberg)…
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Who Athletes Should Thank
by Jason Stotts Via Collegehumor See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Best line: “oh, and there is no god.”