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Daily Archive for March 8th, 2012

Low Voltage

By now I am sure you all know of the disaster that is the Government Motors’ Chevy Volt. It has the honor of being among the world’s first coal-powered cars and has the other honor of selling virtually none of the units that it promised it would sell. Here’s a simple question I am hoping […]

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What, Then?

I’ve seen utilitarians and relativists argue pretty aggressively that there is no absolute moral truth. Sure. Fine. But then if there is no absolute truth or morality then by what principle can you argue that utilitarianism or relativism are themselves true (and by extension any more worthy of following than any particular other “-ism”)?

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Don’t break those CFC bulbs!

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