Senator Ted Cruz tells us that net neutrality would slow down the Internet like the Affordable Care Act is slowing down health care. (Two responses to Cruz's absurdity: net neutrality is not the ACA, and one survey finds appointment wait…
Posts tagged as “philosophy”
I learn from the Patheos:Inklingations blog that USD philosophy professor Joseph Tinguely has penned a pointed riposte to his employer Governor Dennis Daugaard's persistent denigration of Tinguely's chosen field—philosophy—and the product he cranks out for the state—philosophy majors. Professor Tinguely…
In the noteworthy philosophical juxtaposition of the week, my friend Leo Kallis discovers the real reason for Governor Dennis Daugaard's disdain for philosophy: the Governor has admitted that he is a moral relativist... or as he would have been known…
South Dakota Libertarian Party Bob Newland got me to stick my foot in it yesterday. Responding to the growing chorus of Libertarians and others repudiating the viability of Chad Haber's supposed candidacy for the Libertarian nomination for attorney general, I…
Rep. Paul Ryan drew hosannas from the Rom-Paul announcement crowd in Norfolk yesterday by wheezing, "Our rights come from nature and God, not from government." Of course, the Battleship Irony in front of which Ryan said these words wouldn't have…
Fellow blogospherian educator LK gets ready for the school year by posing the following essay question: ...[D]emocracy must write the rules for capitalism, not the other way around. In what ways are the observation and conclusion valid or invalid? Give…
We bury Bill Janklow today. Amidst the broadcast eulogies, I ask the following question: Did Janklow read Nietzsche? And whether he dog-eared Thus Sprach Zarathustra or not, was Janklow the South Dakota manifestation of Nietzsche's übermensch? I caught a bit…
Principle? What principle? Senate State Affairs killed SB 174, the temporary extra-penny sales tax, at its Tuesday hearing. The best argument opposing senators could muster was the idea that we shouldn't resort to temporary solutions. Prime sponsor Senator Stanford Adelstein…