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I made a poem this year that was a thanks, a whole-thing thanks. https://forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/30144-my-verses/&tab=comments#comment-364734 LikeLike

In reply to Anon73. 1. title-transfer theory of contract implies you need to own the thing first, in order to conditionally transfer it 2. the agent that is going to transform the thing does not already own the thing that he promised to homestead for t…

In reply to mlyoung57. Michael, why don’t you coax him away from the ducks? I’ll watch from a safe distance, then write a snarky blog post about it that I take back about a year later. LikeLiked by 1 person

In reply to mlyoung57. Yeah, I was just going to ask, “Where the hell is Riesbeck?” I’m sure he’d have an encyclopedia entry to write on Roderick’s Xenophon/lawncare question. I do think that this whole idea of “resc…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think the ducks got David. The Facebook videos are disguised cries for help. We should rescue him. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Wasn’t “Lawn Order in Ancient Athens” a book on landscaping and lawn maintenance? Probably by Xenophon? LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Those who go to excess in raising laughs seem to be vulgar buffoons. They stop at nothing to raise a laugh, and care more about that than saying what is seemly [or historically accurate] and avoiding pain to the victims of t…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Believe it or not, I actually knew that–for a change. Michael Young, David Riesbeck and I did a reading group on Riesbeck’s book on Aristotle’s Politics a couple of years ago, and instead of discussing wh…

“I generally fucking hate lawyers, continuing a long-standing grudge we philosophers have with them after the sophistical little assholes killed St. Socrates back in the day” The ancient Athenian legal system had no such role as “lawy…