Monthly Archives: April 2012

Taking on abortion and the so-called “prudent predator” by video — with a shout out to the students of Ayn Rand.

I took up the fundamental immorality of abortion last week, and I addressed some additional issues in this week’s video/podcast. That particular chunk, about twelve minutes, is shown in the YouTube clip below. In the video, I focus on specious … Continue reading

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Is Time of the Essence?

“Lamenting vice is not virtue.” Greg wrote that, and I wanted to argue. But of course, he’s right. Here’s more — lamenting anything is not virtue; only virtuous action is virtue. Duh. OTOH, doing something about vice can be virtuous, … Continue reading

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An Empty Mind — Is That What You Want?

I started this morning with a link to this post. In it, I see that my post, “Where Is He Wrong?” is linked. Why? According to the title, “Right-wingers mistake humorous Audi ad for Obama policy; embarrassment should follow.” It’s … Continue reading

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Movie of the week: Evangelizing egoism, abortion and the prudent predator, more on the subjunctive and the works of Richard Mitchell.

This week’s video and podcast are linked below. The headline summarizes the content fairly well. With respect to the subjunctive, I’m hitting four ideas fairly briefly: Wanting, dreading, fearing the disapproval of other people and trying to have efficacy in … Continue reading

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Sunday school: The works of Richard Mitchell

Nathan Stocker, who crafted the Kindle Reader and iBooks versions of Man Alive!, has graced us with eBooks versions of the works of Richard Mitchell. If you don’t know him, you’re in for a treat. Starting from a do-it-yourself newsletter … Continue reading

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Where Is He Wrong?

I stole that title from here. I don’t like plagiarizing, but that’s all I want to know. Man Alive! has been online for a baker’s dozen days now, and the silent response is deafening. Get it? That’s all I want … Continue reading

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Linking Frees Slaves: You have the power to move the world with the push of a button.

This weblog and Man Alive! both continue to suffer from a dearth of inbound links. That’s shameful, even if it’s completely predictable. My name may be unfamiliar to you, but I am very well-known to net.connected libertarians, as is Jim … Continue reading

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What if we could massively increase the number of egoists in society, while driving the anti-egoists crazy?

Man Alive! doesn’t have a dust-cover, but if it did, that headline would make the perfect jacket blurb. It comprises a pocket summary of what the book is intended to do: I want to show honest people how to more … Continue reading

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Hey, Libertarians: If you won’t be my friend, could you please be my enemy?

04/23: Kicked this back to the top of the blog to highlight the irony of it all. Hundreds of people have seen this post, perhaps thousands more by echos and emails. Cum taces, clamas. The silence of Libertarian pundits, bloggers … Continue reading

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Man Alive! — The Podcast: A monologue about “The Conversation”

Episode Two of the podcast. You can find the video version here. Here is the link to the iTunes page for the podcast.

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Movie of the week: “The Conversation” writ large, The Army of Cartmans, thinking about the subjunctive and linking frees slaves.

I made another video, this one highlighting some of the issues we dealt with here this week. I don’t know that I’ll do this every week, but it’s not terribly difficult, so it’s a possibility. I’ve got a YouTube page … Continue reading

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Sunday school: Defend your mind by identifying logical fallacies.

I talk a lot about logical fallacies. If I were shipwrecked, I might have a lot to say about water. Fallacies are not quite as plentiful as water in the ocean, but they are everywhere — and they’re just as … Continue reading

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Drying Peggy Noonan’s tears — and yours.

You come into the house by the kitchen door, and mama is there at the table. Her head is in her hands, her hair is a mess and her eyes are swollen, red and wet. She’s not crying, not quite, … Continue reading

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SelfAdoration.com gets links — not many, but some.

We are getting some inbound links, despite my kvetching. I’d like to see more, but for that I have to wait — which is the human behavior I am worst at. Psalm was cited in the Objectivist Round-Up, a blog … Continue reading

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An Army of Cartmans: Libertarian and Conservative pundits “triumph” by becoming what they despise.

Ahem: 1. Saul Alinsky was evil, as are Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, etc. There is no benefit to a self-loving mind in emulating their vile, rhetorically invalid tactics. Breitbart was wrong: Tu quoque is not okay. 2. No matter how … Continue reading

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