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In reply to Jason Brennan. In other words, you saw your own name, fixated on it, didn’t bother to read the rest, made an incautious comment that turned out to be false, and are now trying to stage a comeback. Long on bravado, short on rebuttal. F…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I didn’t read your entire rant. I just saw you asking the bizarre question. I was wondering you were classist in addition to racist, as we established last week. Are you planning to start cleaning up diapers and poop in…

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest (1895), and P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories (1915-1974; my favourite is Code of the Woosters from 1938) span over a century and a half, but they all take place in the same social milieu – where idle young men, who somehow…

In reply to Jason Brennan. I had to read your comment a few times to grasp that it’s asking just as stupid a question as I thought it was on first reading. In the original post, I say: I wonder how many people at AIER or BHL have ever cleaned ha…

I have in fact had jobs cleaning other people’s trash, washing other people’s dirty dishes, washing floors, and cleaning dirty bathrooms covered in filth. Have you? LikeLike

About two weeks ago, we had a discussion here about New Jersey’s decision (Executive Order 118) to close its state and county parks, leaving municipalities the discretion to keep their parks open. The rationale for the order was that given the option to use the parks, some people will, but many people will not, observe…