This phrase sums up everything I learned from my college ethics classes: blow up the fat guy! We often discussed the question of whether there was any ethical difference between actively killing someone or passively letting someone die.
This was my favorite scenario. You have a bunch of people trapped in a cave. There’s a small […]

All this gay talk started with a discussion of The Wanting Seed, but there’s much more to this book than a discussion of sexual orientation. What about war and political philosophy?
Having majored in philosophy in college, this book appeals to me because Anthony Burgess doesn’t seem to make any judgment about the things that are […]

So, of course there were rumors. Since my husband and I worked together and went to all the happy hours and hung out with our friends and flirted a lot, it was no wonder there was gossip about how we were having three-ways with one or two friends (at different times, of course, otherwise it […]

I’ve been at my company for ten years now, surviving bouts of chaotic upheaval and viral growth from an intimate staff of 30 to a booming 250, where we don’t even know each other’s names.
Now, studies with rats have shown that there’s a tendency toward a higher percentage of homosexual activity under conditions of over-population. […]