Harry G. Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person.”

Good. Que se vayan todos.

Good. Que se vayan todos.

There is no excuse for ever treating people like this. National borders and border policing are a shameful, merciless assault on everything kind, or loving, or compassionate in human life. No refugee should ever have to wait to find refuge. No peaceful traveller should be ripped away to be taken to a camp. Borders should be abolished immediately, completely and forever. << Bicske, Hungary (CNN) -- Chaotic scenes erupted Thursday as trains packed with Syrian refugees were halted at a station outside the Hungarian capital, Budapest, in the latest setback for desperate families seeking to reach Western Europe. Police gathered at the side of the track as the trains abruptly stopped at Bicske. A CNN crew on one of the trains said the families -- who boarded hoping to travel to Austria or ultimately Germany -- were refusing to get off despite suffocating heat and limited food and water. Some youths and men were holding on to the handles of train cars in case police attempted to board and remove them forcibly. Meanwhile, parents fanned their crying children in an attempt to cool them down. Tents and desks had been set up near the station in what the migrants feared was a relocation camp to transfer them to a nearby refugee center.>> http://ift.tt/1VzHqdL

There is no excuse for ever treating people like this. National borders and border policing are a shameful, merciless assault on everything kind, or loving, or compassionate in human life. No refugee should ever have to wait to find refuge. No peaceful traveller should be ripped away to be taken to a camp. Borders should be abolished immediately, completely and forever. << Bicske, Hungary (CNN) -- Chaotic scenes erupted Thursday as trains packed with Syrian refugees were halted at a station outside the Hungarian capital, Budapest, in the latest setback for desperate families seeking to reach Western Europe. Police gathered at the side of the track as the trains abruptly stopped at Bicske. A CNN crew on one of the trains said the families -- who boarded hoping to travel to Austria or ultimately Germany -- were refusing to get off despite suffocating heat and limited food and water. Some youths and men were holding on to the handles of train cars in case police attempted to board and remove them forcibly. Meanwhile, parents fanned their crying children in an attempt to cool them down. Tents and desks had been set up near the station in what the migrants feared was a relocation camp to transfer them to a nearby refugee center.>>

A. White culture and white politics in Alabama have a long history of belligerent, confrontational racism, that’s why.

A. White culture and white politics in Alabama have a long history of belligerent, confrontational racism, that’s why.

Why would you jail anyone over this? Just fire her.

Why would you jail anyone over this? Just fire her.

Auburn Alumni Association just sent me an e-mail to notify me that as a result of a recent change in their contract with the university, they are going to shut down the permanent e-mail forwarding address that they gave me back when I graduated the first time. This affects me in no way, because I never used the forwarding address. But it does seem like a reason for reconsidering what AU Alums means by the word “permanent.”