Roderick T. Long

I teach philosophy at Auburn University and head up the Molinari Institute. I'm an Aristotelean Wittgensteinian left-wing market anarchist and sf fan.

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@internetarchive So many commenters over on the blog with nothing to say but "hurry up" or "tell me how soon." They don't get that you're providing these services for FREE and have limited resources and staff. Every minute you spend engaging with them comes out of time fixing stuff.

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@smccorristine @ConversationUK ... their bodies naked only, but not wearing dresses, or covered with garments, because garments have no vital spirits. When men die, their clothes become decomposed together with their bodies, how could they be put on again?"
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@smccorristine @ConversationUK With respect to George Cruikshank, this issue was first raised much earlier than 1863, by the 1st-century Chinese philosopher Wang Chong: "Ghosts are considered to be the vital spirits of the dead. If this were really the case, people seeing ghosts ought to see ...

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@notjessewalker I'm sorry, Jesse, I'm afraid I can't help you with that.

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@straczynski Plus the Latin in the quoted phrase is "Carthago," not "Carthagio," and it's from Cato, not Cicero.

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@_____newt @rechelon Reminds me of Bookchin ranting against the "lifestyle anarchists" or, mutatis mutandis, Rothbard ranting against the "luftmenschen."

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@notjessewalker Our precious airwave fluids.

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@justinamash @shikhadalmia @RepWalberg And from a purely technical standpoint, dropping nuclear bombs on Gaza might have problematic effects on Israel. The wind bloweth where it listeth.

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@notjessewalker These do not all seem equally adventurous. Sauerkraut?

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@notjessewalker "especially if the speaker uses the phrase 'here's the thing.'"

What if they're introducing Ben Grimm? Or a movie by Howard Hawks or John Carpenter?

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@ULTRA_MAJESTY How racist do you have to be to treat a terrific 2nd Amendment victory as a defeat because it treats a human right as applying to all humans and not just your gang?

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@straczynski What a silly mistake! They would never have beamed down to that planet because it would have violated the Prime Directive. 😜

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@notjessewalker That's a very nattily dressed burglar.

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@rechelon But nothing can be astonishingly stupid. Because if determinism is true, the stupidity was foreseeable all along and so no one should be astonished. And if determinism is false, then nothing can be astonishing, because nothing can *make* you astonished without your consent. Boom.

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@PhoenixDfire @straczynski But unlike the cartoon roadrunner, the real-life roadrunner is not a flightless bird.

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@notjessewalker Auditioning for the role of Reed Richards in the new Fantastic 4 movie. Losing to Pedro Pascal because of speciesism.

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@notjessewalker I've never seen anyone make the transition from watchdog to lapdog as quickly and as thoroughly as Olbermann did when Obama replaced Bush in 2009.