Role-Playing Games
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That is, pen & paper RPGs / table-top RPGs, to be exact. One free, one Arthurian, one Viking. Basic Fantasy RPG If you liked the early e...
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Relief & Refinement of Terms
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After Charlie Kirk's assassination and the resulting sense of outrage on the right and rejoicing on the left, I was concerned that the v...
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Dragons and Trees of Woe
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Nicomachean Ethics VII.3
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This is a longer chapter , most of which will be after the jump. Aristotle begins his investigation into the difficulties described yesterda...
Nicomachean Ethics VII.2
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Today we discuss some of the problems around incontinence. Now we may ask (1) how a man who judges rightly can behave incontinently. That h...
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Signs of decaying society
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From Robert Heinlein's 1982 science fiction novel "Friday," a list of symptoms of a society circling the drain. Citizens ide...
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Uh-oh
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A Guardian reporter describes her experience at England’s recent mega-rally. Since leaving I’ve been grappling with how best to describe w...
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Trump as Next UK Prime Minister?
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GB News is running a poll on this . Until this evening I did not know that Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump , was a Scottish imm...
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Evil as the Demons that Haunt You
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I don't watch TV, but I've never once seen a Jimmy Kimmel bit that was even a little bit funny. All the same, this alignment of cor...
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Nicomachean Ethics Interlude: The Charmides
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Some of you may be flagging from all of the relatively dense philosophy, and would appreciate a more pleasing story. As it happens, this dis...
A Backdoor Departmental Closure
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Clever idea , in a way. If you can convince the school systems to walk away from the money, in order to secure their academic freedom and in...
Nicomachean Ethics VII.1
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Today we begin Book VII . Let us now make a fresh beginning... This characteristically Aristotelian move also happens in Physics I.9 . There...
Alexander Hamilton
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As a rule, I favor politicians and bureaucrats fighting duels . It keeps the worst people out of the field for fear of it, and it provides a...
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Nicomachean Ethics VI.13
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This is the end of Book VI . There are ten books in total. We must therefore consider virtue also once more; for virtue too is similarly rel...
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Nicomachean Ethics VI.12
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Almost finished with Book VI ; one more after this. Difficulties might be raised as to the utility of these qualities of mind. For (1) philo...
Joining the good guys
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This X post by someone named "Comet" caught my eye last week, because it's so similar to my own experience, and echoes a theme...
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A Lemonade Stand
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On a country road high in the mountains today, I came across a young lady of seven or so running a lemonade stand. Naturally my wife and I s...
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Go Rest High On That Mountain
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An Oklahoma boy who made it good.
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Longhaired Redneck
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I'm shaved bald myself, it seeming the only honorable response to the thinning hair of early middle age; but I found an actual original ...
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Nicomachean Ethics VI.11
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Here we have a claim that is psychologically interesting, but which might or might not be true. What is called judgement, in virtue of whic...
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