Archive | January, 2007

Polls

Several blogs around town noted that Pelosi’s approval ratings are lower than Bush’s. (His are 45%, hers are 43%). Volokh points out, correctly, that everyone knows Bush. Therefore, practically everyone who didn’t approve of him, actively disapproved: 54%. On the other hand, there are a lot of people who neither approved nor disapproved of Pelosi. […]

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Wisdom of the Ages. Not So Much.

So many of our most difficult choices have been reasoned through and discussed thousands of times through the years. Socrates was already pondering most of the same questions we think about today. And until recently, the issues hadn’t really changed through the years. Ethical problems are human problems, and humans have been the same for […]

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Frozen Girl

Has everyone had a chance to talk about Ashley yet? (link) Ashley is a nine year old girl with with “static encephalopathy.” That just means that she’s got brain damage, and she’s not ever going to get better. In her case, her abilities and thoughts are somewhere around a three-month old baby. That is, she […]

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