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March 27, 2011 Within about twenty minutes of posting the Thornapple Blog on March 13 I started to have second thoughts. I had been attending a philosophy conference where more than one speaker had commented on the way long dead American philosophers (William James, John Dewey, Mary Parker Follett) failed to comment on or become involved [...] March 20, 2011 Thought for the day: Not all government interference is bad. Even Glenn Beck would approve of some legislation winding its way through the Michigan Legislature. S.B. 1074 would require school districts to use a lowest-cost method for deciding how to deliver food services. H.B. 4306 further reinforces this thought by encouraging outsourcing for [...] March 13, 2011 Participating in the blogosphere creates an enormous sense of personal entitlement. Any minor annoyance is fair game for complaint, and no complaint is too insignificant to warrant narrowcasting it throughout cyberspace. Irked by speed bumps? Channel that rant and make common cause with 10,237 other people who will Google “speed bump” over the [...] March 6, 2011 Sitting in a confab on syn bio yesterday, I’m listening to my colleagues worry. “The big issue,” one of them says, “is unknown and unintended consequences. That’s the main thing I’m worried about.” I say well of course we do want to pay serious attention to unknown hazards, but frankly it’s not the [...] |
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