The Drug Czar's blog, in a post about YouTube videos showing people using inhalents, links with some approval to the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition, which features a poster with these words: Sniffing Correction Fluid Can Stop Your Heart If you sniff to get high, you're inhaling poisons that do definite damage. So stop. Before your heart does. You may be surprised … [Read more...] about Just Say No to Inhalents
Moral Posturing About Richard Paey
My paying job has kept me too busy to blog much, but I've been thinking about a particular application of something Fernando Tesón wrote on Tuesday about how to distinguish between moral posturing and genuine moral principles: We propose The Display Test: a position is genuinely moral when the speaker can accept, without embarrassment, its bad consequences. For example, I am … [Read more...] about Moral Posturing About Richard Paey
Friday Fun Links
The folks at JibJab present the year in review. My friends Bill and Susan recommend this video on bathroom etiquette (probably not safe for work). Numa-numa this ain't, but everybody agrees, wait for the hat. The hat somehow makes it. … [Read more...] about Friday Fun Links
Celebrity Gossip
My day job is keeping me kind of busy lately, so I haven't been blogging as much as I'd like to. I was looking at my stats to see how this was affecting them, when I noticed something interesting. Of the top 20 search terms leading people to Windypundit, six of them—including the top four—were about O.J.'s now-cancelled book, If I Did It. That's a pretty clear … [Read more...] about Celebrity Gossip
American Superhero
"American Superhero" is what Congressman Tom Latham just called Norman Borlaug in explaining why he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. As I explained in a post last year, Borlaug is arguably the greatest American. His Green Revolution improved the efficiency of world-wide agriculture and saved a lot of people from starvation. Just how many people were saved is hard to … [Read more...] about American Superhero