Flirting With Relevance

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the modern life sciences as we know them! Go ahead and celebrate your opposable thumbs!

Buy a copy of The Origin Of Species or read it online for free!

Do you have rights? Of course you do. What are they?

I’m not asking for a lengthy enumeration of each individual right that you believe you possess, but rather a definition of the word. When you speak of a right, what exactly are you talking about? When you speak of an automobile, you are referring to a (usually) four-wheeled vehicle powered (usually) by some form of internal combustion. In that vein, what are we actually discussing when we speak of our “rights?”

Rumor has it that Subway is looking to drop Michael Phelps as a spokesperson after the revelation that the 14-time Olympic champion enjoyed a bit of the wacky tobacky. Fears of a mass protest by stoners proved to be unfounded. While gathering to demonstrate outside a local Subway store, someone got the munchies and everyone went inside for a sandwich.¹

In order to get a grasp on who might be reading this blog and how you all might view the universe, we have a simple polls on the issue of morality.

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The words “ethical” and “moral” are often used interchangeably and this is probably correct. Indeed, each word appears in the definition of the other. The thesaurus feature in my word processor treats then as synonyms. Thus, they are just two names for the same thing, right?