A Habit

“In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love.” – Billie Holiday

Facts

They say that facts don’t lie, but that’s a lie. Some facts are only “facts”. More commonly, some facts are carefully selected while others are carefully omitted. In this way, facts are the dressing of many lies.  – E.O.

Patriotism

It is not good to over-value national loyalty, as nations are in many ways artificial, with moral foundations built on compromise and force. But to under-value national loyalty is to threaten a nation’s existence, making it prey to parasites from within or tyrants on...

Human Cloning

“All human cloning must be banned. There are those who argue that cloning can be sanctioned for medical experimentation, for so-called therapeutic purposes. No matter what promise this might hold—all of which we note is speculative—it is morally offensive since it...