Philosophy
- Moral Obligation And Ignorance
Do we have a moral obligation to correct innocent ignorance? If you spot the Hank Aaron rookie card at a yard sale for a quarter, are you morally obligated to tell the owner what s/he has and how much it is really worth? Are we entitled to think badly...
- Rules Of War
No, not that war. I was playing the card game with one of the short people (we actually were using the "Non-Violent, Politically Correct War" cards whose suits are love, peace, unity, and diversity). Short person was down to his last card and I had all...
- E-cigs Now Being Legally Challenged
"FDA can't regulate e-cigarettes as drug devices, appeals court rules" In a setback to the Food and Drug Administration, a three-judge federal panel says the agency should regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products and not drug-delivery...
- Do I Hear $11 A Pack...new York And The Tobacco Tax
Okay, start taxing fast food restaurants, soda pop beverages...a Quarter Pounder could be $20 and a can of Pepsi could be $5. "Sin Tax" gone crazy. "Cigarette Tax Increased to Keep State Running" by Nicholas Confessore June 21st, 2010 The New York Times...
- Victorian Popular Astronomer: Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Sir Robert Stawell Ball 1840-1913 Sir Robert Ball SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL Free, online books: A Popular Guide to the Heavens A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy Astronomy Elements of Astronomy Experimental Mechanics: A course of Lectures Delivered...
Philosophy
From a 1928 pack of smokes
Check out this beautiful 1920’s British cigarette card, entitled “An Imaginary Landscape on Mars.” Featuring a landscape that is reminiscent of a Chesley Bonestell painting, this piece of tobacciana is #20 in the treasured Romance of the Heavens 50-card astronomy set that was issued in 1928 by Willis’s Cigarettes, more formally known as W.D & H.O. Wills, a division of the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd.
- Moral Obligation And Ignorance
Do we have a moral obligation to correct innocent ignorance? If you spot the Hank Aaron rookie card at a yard sale for a quarter, are you morally obligated to tell the owner what s/he has and how much it is really worth? Are we entitled to think badly...
- Rules Of War
No, not that war. I was playing the card game with one of the short people (we actually were using the "Non-Violent, Politically Correct War" cards whose suits are love, peace, unity, and diversity). Short person was down to his last card and I had all...
- E-cigs Now Being Legally Challenged
"FDA can't regulate e-cigarettes as drug devices, appeals court rules" In a setback to the Food and Drug Administration, a three-judge federal panel says the agency should regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products and not drug-delivery...
- Do I Hear $11 A Pack...new York And The Tobacco Tax
Okay, start taxing fast food restaurants, soda pop beverages...a Quarter Pounder could be $20 and a can of Pepsi could be $5. "Sin Tax" gone crazy. "Cigarette Tax Increased to Keep State Running" by Nicholas Confessore June 21st, 2010 The New York Times...
- Victorian Popular Astronomer: Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Sir Robert Stawell Ball 1840-1913 Sir Robert Ball SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL Free, online books: A Popular Guide to the Heavens A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy Astronomy Elements of Astronomy Experimental Mechanics: A course of Lectures Delivered...