Monday, June 27, 2011

Wal-Mart v. Dukes: the Plessy v. Ferguson of Our Time

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When the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities for persons of different race did not violate the rights of Amer...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Wal-Mart v. Dukes

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Sociologists are upset.  The American Sociological Association filed an amicus brief in the case of Wal-Mart versus Dukes to defend their s...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Junk Criminology as Pseudo-Science

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Writing about the so-called "CSI Effect" Gregg Barack, Young Kim, and Donald Shelton focused on jurors.  Among the many challengin...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

A MAN'S HOME IS HIS MARKET

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We see the "castle" as a paradigm, not just because we are at war with our neighbors - Hobbes' war of all against all being t...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Firefly: Fact and Value Aboard "Serenity"

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This is an example of Romantic fiction as elucidated by Ayn Rand in her book, The Romantic Manifesto .  These characters act on the basis of...
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Saturday, June 4, 2011

John Aglialoro Does Not Shrug

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Atlas 2 and Atlas 3 are still in the works.  Obviously John Aglialoro was disappointed by the lack of response.  If everyone who bought the...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Capitalist Culture

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Instead of vilifying him for being an idiot, we should be praising Michael Moore for being a millionaire.   The Invention of Enterprise: E...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Copy Rights and Wrongs

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The Google Books Settlement Agreement and the conflicts that caused it touched on only some of the problems of intellectual property and ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Locksporting

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Opening locks without keys is one of the challenges historically associated with computer hacking, like gaming and Chinese food, chronicled ...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Cities

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 It is an easy claim commonly found in school books that cities evolved from agrarian communities that themselves were formed when pastorali...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

CSI: FLINT 2011 - Who Guards the Guardians?

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On May 6, I presented two classes to middle schoolers participating in "Super Science Friday" at the University of Michigan Flint ...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

Reflections on Atlas Shrugged Part 1

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I saw it the moment it opened, 12:10 PM, Friday, April 15. The work was credible. I found it impossible to imagine seeing the movie without ...