Oxymorons: When Words Get Funny Ah, the oxymoron! A delightful concoction of contradictions, like when two words that really shouldn’t hang out together somehow make a perfect pair. We’ve all encountered these little linguistic quirks. Take “jumbo shrimp,” for instance. Shrimp, by definition, are small, but slap a “jumbo” in front, and suddenly you’re picturingContinueContinue reading “What do Large Democracy and Jumbo Shrimp Have in Common?”
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The Moral Wilderness Known as the US Constitution
The “Interstate Commerce Clause” Yego: The idea that moral wrongness is something that’s intrinsically so is a powerful notion. It means that when a moral wrong is done to someone, that wrongness cannot be explained in anything else other than the fact that it is the kind of act it it. if i’ve morally wrongedContinueContinue reading “The Moral Wilderness Known as the US Constitution”
