Blacks, Hispanics, women, LGBTs, etc, are all oppressed in one way or another. Their basic human rights are frequently denied them. Blacks are shot down in the streets, Hispanics are rounded up and deported, women are still fighting for equal pay and workplace respect, for reproductive freedom and an end to patriarchy, LGBTs have no…
Rape, slavery, infanticide. Such is the dairy industry, If any human beings on Earth should identify with the suffering of cows and their babies, it should be those who advocate against the rape and enslavement of women, and the murder of their children. However, there is a deafening silence from feminists and women’s advocates about…
Whether radical Islamic terrorists are distinguishable from mainstream Muslims depends upon your species. A sheep, goat, or a camel whose throat is being cut in Halal slaughter or Islamic sacrifice is just as terrified, in just as much pain, and just as murdered as is an American journalist or a Syrian refugee having his throat…
Banners and boundaries divide the world. It is an untenable and ridiculous concept that people can own and partition a planet. Borders are not real. They are contrived by people who wish to exclude or include others. Only people on one side or another of some imaginary line have certain rights? Can vote? Can cross?…
Instead of posting status updates on Facebook, I am now posting each apothegm, thought, observation, and witticism, here, as a Thought Of The Day. Status updates on Facebook disappear into the ether and cannot be relocated by readers. Before you leave, please take a moment to follow this blog by clicking on Follow in the…
Instead of posting status updates on Facebook, I am now posting each apothegm, thought, observation, and witticism, here, as a Thought Of The Day. Status updates on Facebook disappear into the ether and cannot be relocated by readers. Before you leave, please take a moment to follow this blog by clicking on Follow in the…
Societal changes are glacially slow. Four hundred years of slavery in America. Five hundred years before women could vote. And the enslavement, exploitation, and murder of animals since the Dawn of Time. Each day One Hundred Fifty Million animals are brutally murdered in slaughterhouses. Six million per hour. One hundred thousand while you read these…
There is no moral distinction between a grunt who works in animal agriculture and a grunt who worked in the Nazi death camps. Animal rights activists consider all sentient life to be equally valuable, and the only distinction between the two are man-made law and human mores. No economic deprivation could possibly have justified being…
Jeremy Bentham, the father of utilitarianism. Is there a difference between liberal philosophy today and liberal philosophy historically? Actually, no. There is not. Drawing historical parallels, I frequently discuss the fact that conservatives have never been right about anything. Conservatives opposed American Independence, they supported slavery, they opposed women’s suffrage, child labor laws, workplace…
How does one know right from wrong? That philosophical question addresses the roots of religion. The theologian questions how an atheist can have a moral compass without a god. The atheist wonders what deists are capable of were they not held in check by the carrot and stick of religion: Heaven and Hell. Throughout most…
Armory of the Revolution 