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Lawyer and animal rights activist Steven Wise's book, Drawing the Line, does three things: (1) It explains what makes a person a person; (2) It provides a person-continuum of 0.0 (mere stimulus-response machines) to 1.0 (full autonomy–which is what Wise identifies as the essence of

On Equality Let's face it, no matter what the Declaration of Independence says, men are not equal. Sure, in the eyes of God they are, and in the eyes of the law they ought to be, but other than that? Inequality reigns more powerfully than a sadistic ante-bellum

My blog isn't intended for poetry, and I am not a poet. Nonetheless, some might enjoy this hobby: rhymes for drinking times. Written under the pseudonym, WC Bardstool, they've been well-received in Gilbert Magazine. Here are two: There once was a gal from Nanu, Who used

Alexandre Dumas once described the chains of marriage as being "so heavy that it often takes two people to carry them, and sometimes three.” That's sinfully, even fearfully, funny stuff.

If something isn't at all comprehensible or even imaginable, it's weighty evidence that it doesn't exist. In the words of American philosopher CS Pierce: "We cannot even talk about anything but a knowable object. . . . The absolutely unknowable is a non-existent existence." Consider

Drinking beer and wine is a waste of time? Naw. Drinking helps us to do nothing, and when we're doing nothing, we're doing eternity.

"Why won't you attend wedding and baby showers?" I get that question a lot. I have lots of reasons. For starters, I don't enjoy them. I work in the office and my wife handles the domestic front, thus making much of the stuff received