Month: January 2010
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Australia Hates Small Breasts
by Jason Stotts I blogged about the impending Australian internet censorship back in December, but now it appears that Australia is out to lampoon itself for me. The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.…
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Avatar: A Refutation of the Green Movement?
by Jason Stotts While everyone is talking about Avatar and how it is effectively the new green manifesto, I’d like to point out that Avatar can be construed in a different way. In Avatar, on the moon Pandora, the environment is such that there is super-organism (Eywa) which is the result of all of the…
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More Climategate Faux Pas
by Jason Stotts It seems the IPCC science is looking shoddier and shoddier. Apparently the claims about the loss of 40% of the Amazon rain forest is from a green activist’s paper dealing with forest fires (i.e. unrelated to global warming) and the paper was written to try to influence policy. In the Fourth Assessment…
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Swinging: A Different Perspective
by Jason Stotts I’ve been planning to write a detailed essay on swinging and its moral implications for some time now. Unfortunately this is not that essay. It is, however, a detailed look at one important aspect of swinging and one reason why I think that some people find so much value in it. For…
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An Explanation for Open Relationships
by Jason Stotts I found this while researching open relationships and I think it’s a really interesting and honest answer to a quite complicated question. Most people would have simply responded “I don’t know, I just find it sexy” or something similar, but this man took the time to try and explain his reasons for…
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Oh California…
by Jason Stotts Living in California, I am constantly surprised by the asinine laws here and the complete disregard of individual rights and freedoms. Sometimes, however, California goes so far as to be comical (in the bad way). Apparently a school district in Riverside California has removed the dictionaries from the classrooms. No, it’s not…
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Nomenclature and the Problem of Same-Sex Marriage
by Jason Stotts One interesting problem that is going to arise if gay marriage ever becomes legal (as it should be) is the problem of the family name. Let’s just all agree right now that the tradition is sexist, but it makes the issue of what last name the family has easy to decide and…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the January 21, 2010 edition of objectivist round up. Objectivism is the Philosophy of Ayn Rand. She defined it, most eloquently, as a “philosophy for living on Earth.” In that spirit, we present this week’s round up. Myrhaf presents A Nation’s Unity posted at The New Clarion, saying, “Here is a look at…