Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
- Bill O'Reilly's Producer (Unseen Footage) | The Ward Room (video tip to Simon)
- Dear Supreme Sacrificer » Mad Kane's Political Madness
- The Freethinker › Not much of a believer - a world exclusive interview with Ophelia Benson
FT: How would you describe your personal philosophy? OB: I’m not sure I really have anything as grand as a personal philosophy – I think I have more of a methodology. It could be boiled down to not wanting to be taken for a sucker, or in more philosophical language, to a dislike of bullshit. I hate dishonest manipulative language of all sorts, and I spend a lot of time sniffing it out and then making fun of it.
But on the affirmative side, I am in favour or a lot of things, if that adds up to a philosophy. It might be more what the philosopher Rebecca Goldstein in her novel The Mind-body Problem called a mattering map. Freedom and autonomy matter to me, as do rights. So do poetry, music, starry nights. Like Richard Rorty trying to unite Trotsky and wild orchids, I’m not sure how to connect the two – so I just put them on the mattering map.
- The Ostroy Report: Hoily Shit, What an Amazing Week for Barack Obama!
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