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LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, died of complications from an ATV accident. My first reaction was, oh well, I guess Dave is the songwriter, so they'll just replace LeRoi. Then I remembered the song Proudest Monkey off the Crash album and I started crying. If you haven't heard it, go buy... (Read the entire blog entry)

News from the life of Dean Michael Gores on August 14th, 2008: I ran the 2008 CIGNA Elliot Corporate Road Race (5k) in 22 minutes 20 seconds. Which is a healthy speed but not anything extraordinary. I beat the other 9 participants from the company I work for. My car was broken into for the second time i... (Read the entire blog entry)

"Dry" scientific evidence on CO2 and global warming -- comments welcome (Read the entire blog entry)

"... commonly held views of heroism and stress response
are both inter-related and misplaced." (Read the entire blog entry)

A funny if disquieting peek into how others view Objectivists. Not sure if this is entirely tongue-in-cheek. (Read the entire blog entry)

Wrong reasoning from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) (Read the entire blog entry)

In her book, Viable Values, Tara Smith splits moral camps into 4 camps: Intuitionism, Contractarianism, Rationalism, and Principled Egoism. Intuitionism and Rationalism are easiest for Objectivists to dispense with, but Contractarianism requires extra thought (before we dispense with it as something inherently immoral). (Read the entire blog entry)

There's no place like home... (Read the entire blog entry)

What lessons can I learn from these experiences to calibrate my skill at characterizing quickly the new people I meet?  While I dislike making harsh snap judgments, I dislike squandering my precious time even more.  So in the interest of getting back to basics, let me point to SuperSelf by Charles Givens. (Read the entire blog entry)

An answer to 'moral equivalence.' (Read the entire blog entry)