Down with the Memo

Christopher Hitchens on the Downing Street Memo. Hitchens makes the great point that two wrongs don't make the first wrong any righter.

Philosophical Profile

Inspired by the blog of someone much more schooled in philosophy than myself, and desperately trying to avoid doing any work, I have taken this philosophy quiz.

Rand and Aristotle are no surprise, but I wasn't expecting Kant to be so high. More reading is, as usual, in order.

1.	Ayn Rand (100%) Click here for info
2.	John Stuart Mill (78%) Click here for info
3.	Aristotle (68%) Click here for info
4.	Kant (65%) Click here for info
5.	Jean-Paul Sartre (59%) Click here for info
6.	Plato (59%) Click here for info
7.	Aquinas (58%) Click here for info
8.	Epicureans (58%) Click here for info
9.	Jeremy Bentham (55%) Click here for info
10.	St. Augustine (52%) Click here for info
11.	David Hume (48%) Click here for info
12.	Thomas Hobbes (48%) Click here for info
13.	Nietzsche (46%) Click here for info
14.	Prescriptivism (45%) Click here for info
15.	Spinoza (40%) Click here for info
16.	Stoics (39%) Click here for info
17.	Cynics (36%) Click here for info
18.	Ockham (25%) Click here for info
19.	Nel Noddings (11%) Click here for info

V Davis H on the Middle East

Victor Davis Hanson on the Middle East on National Review Online

I have a man-crush on Hanson. I think he's my favorite Democrat.

LBJ v. Nixon

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/edwards200506070751.asp