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 [...]
by Jason Stotts On this day, let us all remember the reason for the season: early christian jealousy over sweet pagan parties (Saturnalia) that involved fertility rites (orgies) and celebration of the winter solstice and the lengthening days. As anyone who has read the christian’s bible would know, jesus (if a man with that name existed) was [...]
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,” [...]
by Jason Stotts I was watching episodes of the short-lived Demetri Martin show and saw a clip for this video, which is absolutely the best thing ever. Really, though, it’s amazing what you can get rats to believe… Automatically Generated Related Posts:No Related Posts
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Automatically Generated Related Posts:Holidays: Altruism’s Corruption of [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
by Jason Stotts Via Collegehumor See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Best line: “oh, and there is no god.” Automatically Generated Related Posts:No Related Posts
