Good morning.
- Japan’s aging population.
- OK, those of you on the left, spin that!
- For those who thought Mrs Palin a drag on McCain’s race.
- Problems with a taxonomy of philosophy.
- A prayer.
- Chick Tracts and Cthulhu.
- Mr Emanuel one view. Another.
- Links.
- One view on McCain’s loss. Another.
- Goin’ to the big city … and as a coda, now I’m seeing it in more than one place … I’m going to have to read some Rawls it seems … even thought what I have seen seems very flawed.
- The visible body of Christ.
- Inequity in wages … and the parties.
- Will Obama slow that growth?
- A biker won.
- Voting and felons, on which I might try to write more this weekend from a non-social contractarian point of view (having at this point rejected the notion of social contract as being useful or valid myself).
- Dance of death.
- Batmobile downsized and its nemesis?
- Memory eternal.
- Into the last book.
- A question for a shared faith. Another political question and faith.
100 hours of community service each year of college? Is he crazy?? When does he expect them to have time for such an endeavor?
Weren’t college aged kids part of his base??
Indeed, I was so occupied at college I couldn’t even find 100 hours a year for Church.
Voting and felons, on which I might try to write more this weekend from a non-social contractarian point of view (having at this point rejected the notion of social contract as being useful or valid myself).
Might want to double check your link, it looks like you duplicated the biker link.
A few thoughts on voting and felons:
1. Because we do not have a centralized database of everyone in the US, we have only ecclectic databases of felons. Many attempts to ‘scrub’ voter lists of those with felony convictions have lead to innocent people being denied the vote simply because they shared a name or age with someone else who was convicted of a felony. In their haste to make a big deal over voter registration problems, many conservatives seem to have missed making an honest examination of the downside of creating such a universal database.
2. I have no objection to denying the right to vote to those serving time or those on probation but I think if a person is no longer serving time he should be allowed to vote. The idea of lifetime disenfachisement does not strike me as very productive and in fact is pretty counter productive. In some areas you have areas where a large portion of the population is subject to no representation at all which seems to be a receipe for social instability. Likewise even if not it seems to say to the person once you mess up forget about even trying to get straight with the system because the system will never let you back in.
Sorry, the felon voting link was from Positive Liberty.