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25-point Rough Draft on Active/Empathetic Listening (on how you REALLY love someone who you value)
25-point Rough Draft on Active/Empathetic Listening (on how you REALLY love someone who you value)

Personal blogs are stored thought -- thinking out loud about something you feel is important. Some folks feel that "love" is either fundamentally mysterious, or something that you can't get any better at by thinking about or understanding it better than you did before; they'll react negatively to the following guidelines for becoming a more loving person (though, for some reason, they might not react negatively to these same behaviors if they were personified in the fictional characters of a novel!) (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Ed Thompson on 3/06, 2:37pm)

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World Issues
World Issues

More current events out of the Dark Ages. (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Teresa Summerlee Isanhart on 3/11, 4:06pm)

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Calibrating My Fuzz Ball Buster
Calibrating My Fuzz Ball Buster

What lessons can I learn from these experiences to calibrate my skill at characterizing quickly the new people I meet?  While I dislike making harsh snap judgments, I dislike squandering my precious time even more.  So in the interest of getting back to basics, let me point to SuperSelf by Charles Givens. (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Luke Setzer on 5/31, 5:49am)

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Personal Note on Center for Consumer Freedom
Personal Note on Center for Consumer Freedom

Wrong reasoning from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Ed Thompson on 7/02, 6:05am)

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Is something happening to our young?
Is something happening to our young?

A recent experience not only stands out, but ties together otherwise-disparate observations ... (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Ed Thompson on 8/22, 4:58pm)

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The Bureaucratic Bait-N-Switch
The Bureaucratic Bait-N-Switch

Thoughts on the popular explanations for our housing crisis ... (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Ed Thompson on 9/24, 9:58am)

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Little Eddie Objectivist
Little Eddie Objectivist

Fictional toddler, mentally ahead of his peers and even some of his caregivers. (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Ed Thompson on 11/28, 5:44pm)

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Proposition 8 and "Democracy-Hypocrisy"
Proposition 8 and "Democracy-Hypocrisy"

Folks fighting Proposition 8 want hegemony, not egalitarian democracy/equality. (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Ed Thompson on 12/10, 7:46am)

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My impression of what
My impression of what's original to Objectivism

Basically?: Start with the kind of being that you are (one who knows via a certain means and not via other means) -- and integrate, integrate, integrate. (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Ed Thompson on 2/01, 9:13am)

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A Rational Egoist
A Rational Egoist's Odds & Ends

A powerful relay of thought and experience. (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Tyson Russell on 2/11, 1:05pm)

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