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Recipe: Slow-Cooked Spicy Citrus Chicken

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 30, 2009 @ 1:22 am Food and Cooking

Ingredients

1      6-oz can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1      6-oz can frozen pineapple juice concentrate, thawed
1      cup  catsup
4      tablespoons lemon juice
3      teaspoons cayenne pepper (less if you’re a pansy, more if you like)
4      tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
2      2-inch stick cinnamon
16    whole allspice
8 [...]

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Summary: Korsgaard’s Sources of Normativity

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 29, 2009 @ 1:17 pm Nonfiction Reviews

In an undergrad philosophy class on problems in ethical theory, taught by libertarian James Stacey Taylor (who introduced me to the IHS), we were required to write 300-words-or-less summaries of each chapter of the philosophy books we were reading. It’s not easy summarizing 10-30 pages of academic philosophy into 300 words or less, and such [...]

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Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court’s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book.
I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of All [...]

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Aristotle’s Prime Mover

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 4, 2009 @ 9:05 am philosophy

Sources: De Anima III.5, Metaphysics XII (especially 7 & 9), Physics VIII (especially 8-10).
Characteristics of the Prime Mover (Divine Nous):
• First principle
• First mover (logically, not temporally); itself unmoved and unmovable/unalterable
• Substance (and arguably form) without matter
• Self-thinking thought
• Eternal and in eternal possession of its object (thought); therefore always active and never passive,
always actuality [...]

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Taking the Pledge of Liberty and Justice for All Seriously

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 17, 2009 @ 1:05 pm Education

A 10-year-old boy is taking a stand for “liberty and justice for all,” refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance until gays and lesbians enjoy equal rights. Good for him. But this will be best achieved by getting the state out of marriage entirely. Let people define marriage how they will. Barring that, the second best option [...]

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Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-15

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 15, 2009 @ 12:00 am Tweet Digests

People on both flights told us they were surprised how well behaved Sophia was. #
RT @IndependentInst: RT @C4Liberty Ohio introduces Firearms Freedom Act, to protect gun rights against federal usurpation http://is.gd/4RXpm #
RT @KristineRusch: @billprady: Please vote #bigbangtheory #peopleschoice http://bit.ly/1Gw3Cc – please retweet the holy heck out of this! #
RT @reasonmag: Buy Health Insurance or Go [...]

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My JLS Atlas Shrugged Article, Finally!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 12, 2009 @ 11:20 am Aristotelian Liberalism

The “final” issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is finally available online, although it looks like there will be one more final issue for all the other accepted but unpublished articles. This is the Atlas Shrugged Symposium issue, the last issue edited by Roderick Long, and I’m proud to say it includes an article [...]

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Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-08

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 8, 2009 @ 11:00 pm Tweet Digests

@aniceberg A Twitter Facebook app. I think this is it: http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ in reply to aniceberg #
RT @matociquala: xkcd of genius: http://xkcd.com/657/large/ #
RT @Lifehacker: How to Really Browse Without Leaving a Trace http://lifehacker.com/5395267 #privacy #windows #
RT @mises: Selling Sex, Not Ideas: Two new books on Ayn Rand are out, one that we've been promoting, which focuses… [...]

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Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-01

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 1, 2009 @ 11:00 pm Tweet Digests

New link for blogpost “Stackpole, Doctorow, and Intellectual Property.” Sorry, have been tweaking plugins & permalinks. http://bit.ly/21w1Wb #
New blogpost: New Website & Blog!: Attention all my readers and subscribers – assuming I still have any after not po… http://bit.ly/3o4rPj #
is making tuna salad for a sandwich while catching up on Stargate Universe on Hulu Desktop [...]

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Belated Inauguration for My New Website & Blog

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 26, 2009 @ 4:24 pm Personal News

This is coming a bit late, since I’ve already made a few posts (automated and not), but welcome to my new website with an integrated and self-hosted blog. I’ve switched to using WordPress as my publishing platform as you can probably tell. I’m still in the process of transferring content over and updating the website. [...]

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