Category Archives: Philosophy

Truthout – Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice

Ari­zona really is just a bun­dle of crazy isn’t it.

January 1, 2011 – 9:46 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Friendly Atheist – An Iowa College’s Response to Blasphemy Day

Free­dom of speech is impor­tant for peo­ple to feel free to cri­tique any idea even one as per­sonal as religion.

July 24, 2010 – 2:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Calling Something Factual, Doesn’t Make It Magically Factual

Specif­i­cally, this is another time in which I call out Repub­li­cans for their lack of atten­tion to basic logic and under­stand­ing of facts. I received an email tonight from the RNC regard­ing Obama, Con­gress and the orga­ni­za­tion ACORN. In this email the GOP makes the claim that “It seems the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion has plans to …

April 9, 2009 – 2:19 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

One isn’t Many and Many isn’t All

One of the argu­ments that I hear for why peo­ple express an –ism belief (racism, sex­ism, ageism, etc), is that they had this expe­ri­ence with this one per­son and you know that must be how every­one of that par­tic­u­lar group is. I love this kind of rea­son­ing it’s so illog­i­cal it’s almost funny and yet …

January 7, 2009 – 10:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Your Rules Aren’t My Rules

Here is the prob­lem that I see with a lot of the evan­gel­i­cal right. They seem to think that their rules are all of sud­den my rules. Here’s a hint, they aren’t. A great exam­ple is this ad for a ren­tor. The ad includes such won­der­ful rules as the main lights in the apart­ment are …

December 26, 2008 – 11:08 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Do Words Actually Matter?

The ques­tion is almost stu­pid to answer because on cer­tain level they must mat­ter or else I wouldn’t pub­lish my thoughts. So words must mat­ter to you because well you are read­ing this and you most likely com­mu­ni­cate with soci­ety. There is a very good rea­son that being deaf and/or mute is an imped­i­ment to …

August 3, 2008 – 3:16 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Philosophy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)