09/07/2016   I can't get this blog to unlock, so if you need to reach me or want to post something regarding the passing of either Kenn Gregg or his friend, Pamela, please use my philosborn2001@yahoo.com email and I'll add it in manually here if feasible. I recently received an email from Kenn's one-time lover, Pamela Maltzman, regarding her reexamination of this blog and thanking me for my effort. Pamela herself just passed away, which did not surprise me.  Pam'...

I awoke in the middle of the night last night suddenly understanding why the incest taboo is such a driving force. Of course, we all know the biological, genetic reason. Closely related people share a LOT of bad genes that would be masked in 99.9% of the cases of mating with a random stranger by the corresponding functional gene from the other partner. Thus, mating with your sister is a BAD idea - at least if you're planning on having kids with only one head, or a functioning brain. How...

I'm mirroring this, BTW, from the "Return to Reason" objectivist site, as I keep having the sad experience of losing files that I don't put in multiple locations... I'd like to first focus upon a real anomoly in the objectivist experience: "The Fountainhead" vs. "Atlas Shrugged" (TF vs. AS) Now please don't assume that I'm taking some kind of trivial stance here. I have read both works many times (starting in 1960 with AS), altho not recently, and in my last reading of them in th...

Recently posted to the KPFKchat.org newsgroup: We are about to be bombarded with pros and cons in this debate over the big union money grab. I mean, of course, the (California) state-funded pre-school initiative. See my previous posts on this issue at KPFKchat.org for details. Bottom line is that it represents the culmination of decades of sinister plotting by the truly evil Public Teachers Union to add 15% to their membership by destroying private day care via utterly useless regulations ...

This is going to be an interesting blog - for me, anyway. Usually, I start out knowing pretty much what I intend to say and then it keeps morphing into the blog that ate Cleveland. Becuz I know SO MUCH STUFF! (Aren't you glad?) This time, however, I'm writing to find an answer, as in the classic psychotherapist trick, "Well, if you were able to answer the question, what would the answer be?" So, I'll assume that I have the answer - or a way to get there - or something - regarding "...