John Stuart Mill on pacifism

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.  - John Stuart Mill

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Milton Friedman on the role of government

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John Stuart Mill on the limits of government

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Deirdre McCloskey on the right way to get angry about poverty and inequality

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Astrology, palm reading and communism

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Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present

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Adam Smith on law and order

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Joseph Schumpeter on true believers

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Milton Friedman on the colour of money

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John Stuart Mill on blogging

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Deirdre McCloskey on inequality versus poverty

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Principled Anti-War Celebrities We Fear May Have Been Kidnapped

The only explanation for their continued silence since January 20, 2009 must be a large, organized kidnapping.

Martin SheenDanny Glover

Sean PennTim Robbins

Susan SarandonJaneane Garofalo

Bruce SpringsteenSheryl Crow

George Clooney

HT: Buzzfeed

Evolution is just a theory? Show me some evidence!

Photo: VESTIGIAL FINGERNAILS

West Indian and West African manatees have fingernails.  Why?  Because they inherited them from their land dwelling ancestors, relatives of the elephants.  They even have the same amount of fingernails as elephants - 3 to 4.

Read more about manatee fingernails: http://www.savethemanatee.org/faq_fingernails.html

Fun facts and videos about interesting manatee facts (you must see their lips in action!): http://travel4wildlife.com/manatees-four-facts/#!prettyPhoto

Photo by: http://www.halbrindley.com/
A big thanks to John Locklin for sending us this post idea. :)

West Indian and West African manatees have fingernails. Why? Because they inherited them from their land dwelling ancestors, relatives of the elephants. They even have the same amount of fingernails as elephants – 3 to 4.

Oh, but it’s just a theory!?

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Conspiracy theorists over-rate the ability of powerful people to keep secrets

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