House Sets Up Battle on Labor, Education and Health Budgets - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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thinkahol * on 05 Oct 11"
Think through moral problems. Find a just principle. Apply it.
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Op-Ed Columnist - The End of Philosophy - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are linked and basically simultaneous.
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Everything that we look at, we form an implicit preference. Some of those make it into our awareness; some of them remain at the level of our unconscious, but ... what our brain is for, what our brain has evolved for, is to find what is of value in our environment.”
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As our brain sorts out of the thousands of bits of info it takes special note of those things your system of values and interest. We take note of those things that have been socially enriched objects and concepts
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG - 0 views
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Inappropriate use of force brings with it trouble for the officer who transgresses, as it always did except for the fact that such things were rarely captured on cctv or mini videos - but if they ever show the footage of the anti-Vietnam war Grosvenor Square riot in 1968 you’ll see some stick happy police officer who, ultimately, got the sack
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Hardly something that should result in the local bobby from an English village being pilloried along with every other officer in the land.
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I’m-a-citizen-not-a-criminal says that those police who “just stood and watched their colleagues break the law are equally to blame”. The same goes for protesters.
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Nasty video of protester brutality
In place of smear | Ed Mayne | LabourList.org | April 2009 - 0 views
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But if he hadn't done it, someone else would have got there eventually. It's up to all of us now to stop this happening again. Some people tell me that blogging is the future of politics. If this is the case, I very much hope it gets more mature with its increasing importance.
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We can all agree that censorship is not the route to go down. Therefore all political parties and all press and media outlets have a responsibility to regulate themselves
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Mayne fears that blogs have dragged politics into the gutter and threaten democracy. I hope not, but I'll wait for more evidence.
Political Affairs Magazine - Afghanistan and the Lessons of Soviet Intervention - 0 views
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A historian's account of the political memoirs of various soviet leaders on the "Afghanistan Trap" and their similarities to Obama's situation today.
Op-Ed Columnist - The End of Philosophy - NYTimes.com | April 2009 - 0 views
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It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
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This makes no sense - perhaps Herbert doesn't want us to reason about it!
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hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle toward goodness, not as a means, but as an end in itself.
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This is certainly a vital question, but I don't think that link is hard, but instead obvious.
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A little pompous, but provoking and informative all the same.
Pelosi Now Remembers Harman Wiretap - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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when you are briefed on something, it isn’t your information to share with anybody else, whether they are briefing you on legal opinions or whether they are briefing you on actions they are taking, you have no ability to share that information with anyone else, so even if I wanted to share it with her I would not have had the liberty to share it,” Ms. Pelosi said.
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What is the point of a briefing if you are not allowed to use the information? Sounds like a "Yes, Minister" script.
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Preservationists in Chicago Fear Losing Ground to Condos - New York Times - 0 views
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Watch what's left of a once distinguished architectural legacy be destroyed because our city is run by idiots. Consider this quote: ""Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Alderman Matlak said. "A lot of people don't want 19th-century buildings.I grew up in a frame house. My bedroom was 8 by 8. People don't want that now." Then - here's a wild idea. Maybe they might try moving into one of the neighborhoods that isn't historic? Which, in Chicago, is almost all of them, now? Speaking as somebody who lives in Chicago, I can report that the difference of opinion between the developers and the preservationists on this is not an honest one; the rate of demolition has not been exaggerated one bit.
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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Sobering reading about the treatment of prisoner during Shrub's (George Bush the younger's) time in office.
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