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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I doubt that the covid-free Walmart Singer imposes enough risk of spreading the disease to anyone (say, through touching a surface with the virus and then bumping into someone and touching their face with one’s virus-co…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I drink your bloodshake! LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. “Oil” is indeed a puzzler, unless it was meant to conjure up “There Will Be Blood.” LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Music”: that’s very complimentary. “Oil”: that one’s a bit of a puzzler. LikeLike

Interesting piece. You say nothing about the Ashirite/Mutazilite split, where the Mutazilites, as I understand it, were the ones who argued for sources of knowledge pre-Koranic — and lost out about a thousand years ago.

[…] gallery is meant to illustrate the issues raised in my discussion with Michael Young over Wal Mart in the post on the Great Barrington Declaration. See the combox of that post for further […] LikeLike

This gallery is meant to illustrate the issues raised in my discussion with Michael Young over Wal Mart in the post on the Great Barrington Declaration. See the combox of that post for further details. Click the thumbnails of each photo for important e…

Responding to Michael’s January 2 @ 3:29 pm post down here. I do insist that not wearing a mask is a rights violation. I don’t agree with your framing of the issue, and indeed, went to Wal-Mart last night to do some Heavy Duty Empirical Res…