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  • I hate the quotidian minutiae of them, the fact that they’re machines because machines are inconvenient in that they break down and hics use them to decorate the lawn (the solution to the hics is to have a cash bonus for recycling high enough to be irresistible to them).

    Electric « Unknowing 2010

  • Uhhhh ... so an appeal to “racial [and ageist, apparently] demograp [hics]” is the tu quoque of Obama/Hitler signs, witch-doctor Obama PhotoShopping, and watermelon e-mails.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Racism and The Tea Partiers 2010

  • Uhhhh ... so an appeal to “racial [and ageist, apparently] demograp[hics]” is the tu quoque of Obama/Hitler signs, witch-doctor Obama PhotoShopping, and watermelon e-mails.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Racism and The Tea Partiers 2010

  • On Thursday, the Hill newspaper, citing an unnamed source, reported that the Senate Select Committee on Et hics is looking into the 30 VIP Senate loans after receiving a letter on the matter from Rep. Darrell Issa, the California Republican who is spearheading the House inquiry.

    Trial Near of Mozilo; Politicians Draw Heat 2010

  • In J.E. J. Altham and R. Harrison (eds.), World, Mind, and E.hics: E.says on the E.hical Philosophy of Bernard Williams.

    Hanging 2009

  • G.E. Moore (1873-1958) was one of the most distinguished and most influential philosophers of the twentieth century in spite of having published only three full-length books during his long life: Principia E.hica (1903), E.hics (1912), and Some Main Problems of Philosophy (1953).

    Birthday Music Lynn Chakoian 2009

  • July 2, 2008 at 5:18 pm ai finks ai is lolling wif hics!

    i iz free! i can feel - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Rutte, Heiner, 1986, “E.hik und Werturteilsprobleme im Wiener Kreis”, in Nyiri 1986, pp. 162-172, transl. by T.E. Uebel “E.hics and the Problem of Value in the Vienna Circle” in Uebel 1991a, pp. 143-158.

    Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

  • Jones, E.E. Constance, 1900-1, “Mr. Hayward's E.aluation of Professor Sidgwick's E.hics”, International Journal of E.hics, 11: 354-60.

    Henry Sidgwick Schultz, Barton 2006

  • Frankena, William, 1968, “Obligation and Value in the E.hics of G.E. Moore,”, in Schilpp 1968.

    Moore's Moral Philosophy Hurka, Thomas 2005

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