Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: The Moral Ideal§330 To approach this in such a way as to abolish the word “Ideal”: critique of desiderata.
Iowa Supreme Court upholds residents' right to be drunk on their own front porch: http://t.co/xuGBk8sKEz
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 12, 2015
I imagine the facts of this case are more complicated than the headline suggests. Even so, it’s good to know that, in Iowa at least, a guy can sit on his own front steps and drink a beer without worrying about a visit from the constabulary.
A California Assemblywoman says her state’s drought is reprisal by the Invisible Wizard for abortion.
Assemblywoman Grove was the final elected official to speak, and she was full of fire. A charismatic speaker who represents the majority of Kern County in the Central Valley, Grove has enjoyed support from some of the most prominent Republicans in the country, including Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee. But she had come to talk about an even more powerful figure.
“Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill,” she told the audience, presumably referring to HB 2, the omnibus Texas abortion bill that included a 20-week ban based on junk science. “It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California.”
The Russians are going to INVADE the Good Ol’ U.S. of A. because we have become a land of sodomites!
“All I can say to the KATB board of directors is you guys will be the first people to see the Russian soldiers moving across the Bering Strait to invade the continental U.S.A. and bring judgment to this country for becoming a land of sodomites,” Wiles said.
What’s to say? These characters have become living, breathing caricatures of some goofball you’d expect to see on The Simpsons. The punch line, of course, is that they sucker even dumber people out of their money.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate§329 Have I thereby done any harm to virtue? Just as little as anarchists do to princes: only since they have been shot at do they once more sit securely on their thrones. For thus it has always been and will ever be: one cannot do a thing a better service than to persecute it and to run it down — This is what I have done.
