The late atheist dissenter waxes on Socrates and Jesus, and why he prefers to bank on the existence of the former. Namely because he never claimed that anyone had to believe anything he had to say.
“One day, if you work hard, you might be scrubbing oil off of endangered species! I’m talking baby turtles!”
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that shit is getting pretty crazy in Ukraine. Not wasting a moment’s time following Sochi’s close, Putin sent troops to Crimea and is taking aim to annex the culturally pro-Russian peninsula. PBS News Hour fleshes out the details and strategies with Stephen Cohen of New York University and Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTeRkfUzim8
True, the decision to lower wages to the point that it’s necessary for the federal government to subsidize a minimum wage worker’s living is hardly the definition of fiscal responsibility. That assumes, of course, that the Republican Party actually values fiscal conservatism through and through.
Some say it would be doomsday. Rational individuals from all over would flock to the United States and disrupt native livelihoods and ecosystems. Others speculate that it would cease the incidence of conflicts abroad, and that to fail to open borders is morally wrong. Where do you come down?
