Pledge to End Hunger
Too lazy to volunteer and too cheap to donate? Fine. Click here and sign your name and Tyson Foods will donate 35 lbs. of food on your behalf. You ingrate.
A few years back, I tried an experiment where I went without food of any kind for as long as I possibly could. I wanted [...]
Should I feel bad about things?
When something feels this good, w/o causing harm to others, why not just enjoy it?
Through talking to others over the years, I’ve learned that what I think of as my “conscience” is very different from the ordinary person’s conscience. While it is true that I do feel badly about certain things from time to [...]
End Child Hunger in America
As most of you know, I work as the webmaster of Share Our Strength, a national organization dedicated to ending child hunger. When I first joined, I did not know nearly as much about the issue as I do now. What I’ve learned has astonished me.
Poverty is complex; solving hunger is easy. We already know [...]
A Feminist Viewpoint
Feminism is a tough subject for me to discuss, if only because I generally hang out with a lot of feminist friends who hold distinctly different ideals than I on the topic.
This is not to say that I am anti-feminist, nor is it to imply that my friends are anti-feminist. On the contrary, both my [...]
Eating Out to End Child Hunger
As many of you probably already know, my day job is as the webmaster of strength.org, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that no child should ever have to grow up hungry. Well, one of our initiatives, the Great American Dine Out, is going on right now all across the country. Simply by going [...]
The Rabbit
I did not take a picture. I will not take a picture. Yet I feel like I cannot go on without showing a picture. So here is a picture I found on the internet.
My lawn is small. Too small to bother with, really. But the grass was getting long, and [...]
Feedity: Unethical RSS?
In my position as webmaster of Share Our Strength, I am constantly on the lookout for better and easier methods of generating content to drive visitors to our many websites. One exceedingly easy method is to grab content from outside RSS feeds, allowing a page on our site to have constantly updating content [...]
Consequentialist Ethics in an Infinite Universe
A Consequentialist Argument for Weighted Consideration of Interests
or: How an Infinite Universe Affects Consequentialist Ethics
A common argument against consequentialist ethics is the empirical fact that most persons seem to place more weight on the consideration of interests of those they know than on those they don’t. While not fatal, it is true that most [...]
Moving Beyond Capitalism (But Not Through Socialism)
Before you read this post, you have to watch this video:
When you’re done watching, read on. I’ll wait for you.
Okay, finished watching? Good. Now I have a few things to say. But before I start, I want to share the first thing I wrote down when I first watched this:
I’m still [...]
Are tasers safe?
TASERs have been in the news a lot recently. A student was tasered at John Kerry’s speech just a few months ago, and more recently an Oakland cop killed someone with a taser. Then there’s the Vancouver guy who was tasered to death in the airport, and in the UK, one man actually [...]
