1. Perry May Duck Future Debates
When you look and sound like a retarded chimp up past his bedtime during these debates I can imagine why you’d want to avoid as many of them as possible.
2. Paul Ryan’s Stock Continues to Rise
Peggy Noonan contrasts the Obama strategy of mindless, petty division with Paul Ryan’s thoughtful style of problem solving supported by carefully explained philosophy. If you haven’t watched Ryan’s speech at the Heritage Foundation you might want to check it out here, it was very well done and should serve to both shame and motivate the President to clean up his act.
3. The Speed of Thought
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman talks to NPR about human thought and how he thinks we’re not as great as we think we are at decision-making. His theories of System 1 and System 2 thinking are very relevant to previous conversations on free will and unconscious versus conscious thought. While Kahneman does not advance a “no free will” position, he does emphasize the overwhelming influence of chemicals, etc on brain activity and, consequently, decision-making.
