Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

What do you think of this? The fact that a philosopher supports it should give one pause, for philosophers are not known for their common sense.

FM/Live (1973).

Good leftist that he is, Peter Singer doesn't let a crisis go to waste.

Addendum: The argument seems to be as follows:

1. It is inconsistent both (a) to eat meat and (b) to condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe;
2. I condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; therefore,
3. I may no longer eat meat.

Here are some objections:

• The first premise is false.
• The first premise is true, but I don't care about inconsistency.
• The first premise is true and I care about inconsistency, but, since I am going to continue to eat meat, I no longer condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe.

Singer and his coauthor do nothing to reply to these (obvious) objections. They should have addressed at least the third objection, for I suspect that most readers of their op-ed column, if forced to choose, would stop condemning (or mourning) the killing of Harambe rather than stop eating meat.

To the editor:

This Republican politicians [sic] who are “lining up behind Trump” should remember that in 2008 those Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who supported going to war in Iraq either lost in the presidential primary or chose not to run, and a similar thing could happen to Republican aspirants for the presidency in 2020.

Dan Caldwell, Malibu

The writer is a professor of political science at Pepperdine University.

Note from KBJ: By the letter writer's logic, Hillary Clinton is in trouble.

This is a roadside park in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. I took the picture in 2015. I'll post images of our recent Scotland vacation in due course.

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I was born Keith Douglas Jackson on 7 April 1957. I changed my name to "Keith Burgess-Jackson" in 1981 so as to have both of my parents' names. Here are the origins of my four names:

• Keith Name Meaning Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster. German: nickname from Middle High German kit ‘sprout’, ‘offspring’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
• Douglas Name Meaning Scottish: habitational name from any of the various places called Douglas from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
• Jackson Name Meaning English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack 1. As an American surname this has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
• Burgess Name Meaning English and Scottish: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, Old French burgeis ‘inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one with municipal rights and duties. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

No wonder I felt so at home in Scotland!

William Kristol is batshit crazy. Every time he runs down Donald Trump (which is every day), he increases the likelihood that Hillary Clinton will be the next president. This means a progressive Supreme Court for the rest of Kristol's life, and probably well beyond it. This means the end of everything Kristol holds dear. What could possibly be going through his mind? Is he so filled with hate that he'd rather destroy American conservatism than support Trump, for let it not be misunderstood: If Clinton is elected president, American conservatism is dead, dead, dead.

Forgive me, but on a scale of one to 10, I care zero about Muhammad Ali. You?