Zippy Catholic
Zippy Catholic is a pseudonymous blogger. His qualification for commenting on momentous subjects is that he is some guy. He has a bachelor's in engineering, an MBA, and five software patents. He takes graduate courses for fun (usually in science and technology, most recently in bioinformatics) and might at some point ask some institution to recognize the fact with another wall hanging. His addiction to books is cause for concern among his relatives, who don't think that that much shelf and box space should be dedicated to books you haven't gotten around to reading yet.
He has worked in the cubicle farms of very large corporations, has personally started and run two small high tech companies, and has invested/participated in several more. He was briefly on the board of directors of a public NASDAQ-traded company and is a partner in a number of investment partnerships. In spite of all this he has just the barest clue how venture capital and Wall Street work, and is useless (dangerous even) as a source of advice on personal investment. He is an instrument rated private pilot.
Articles
- No theory is better than bad theory, July 31, 2011
- Pictures, Words, and All That, July 29, 2011
- You can consent to whatever you want, as long as you get it right, July 28, 2011
- The Consent Idol, July 27, 2011
- The Speech Privilege, May 5, 2009
- The Boy Who Cried Waterboard, April 29, 2009
- Tortured Positivism, April 25, 2009
- Wickedness in Ambivalence, April 25, 2009
- Escher on Credit Default Swaps, March 20, 2009
- Why Traditional Christians are all Nazis Who Need to be Reprogrammed, March 15, 2009
- The Low Man, Redux, March 13, 2009
- Aborting a Miscarried Argument, March 9, 2009
- A comment on contemporary politics, March 5, 2009
- Hypotheticals Don't Exist, March 4, 2009
- Aquinas on Usury, March 2, 2009
- "Settling" is for Losers, February 21, 2009
- The Low Man, February 16, 2009
- I Told You So, February 11, 2009
- The Anarchist Tyrant and the Unprincipled Exception, February 10, 2009
- Against a Universal Franchise, February 10, 2009
- Liberalism and the Anarchist Tyrant, February 7, 2009
- Throw Them Back in the Frozen Hudson, January 31, 2009
- Sodomlywood, January 30, 2009
- Supporting Abortion Rights is Worse than Holocaust Denial, January 26, 2009
- Heroes, January 16, 2009
- Mars and Venus, Sitting in a Tree, January 6, 2009
- Standing Athwart Child Sexploitation Yelling "Wait Until They Are A Little Older", December 29, 2008
- The Power of the Word, December 20, 2008
- Implicit Categorical Claims, December 19, 2008
- On the Irrepressibility of Conscience, November 28, 2008
- The Mass-Marketing of Hell, November 9, 2008
- The Measure of Sincerity, November 8, 2008
- Congratulations, you won! How can we help?, November 6, 2008
- A Heap of Double-Effect, November 6, 2008
- On the grave obligations of Catholics who voted for Obama despite his positions on the life issues, November 5, 2008
- Pro-Life, or Pro-Lie?, November 3, 2008
- Boiled Frogs, Redux, October 25, 2008
- If the Emperor has no clothes, is he still the Emperor?, October 23, 2008
- What the heck is a proportionate reason, anyway?, October 21, 2008
- It was a Bank Panic, October 5, 2008
- A Tale of Gold and Lead, September 30, 2008
- Up The Creekonomics, September 29, 2008
- Back to the Future, September 27, 2008
- The Parable of the Dollar Auction, September 20, 2008
- Double Non-Effect, September 17, 2008
- Can't We All Just Vote Along?, September 16, 2008
- There May Be Other Sources of Meat, Redux, September 14, 2008
- Murder, Perfection, and Telling White Lies, September 12, 2008
- All other things equal, ceteris paribus doesn't make for a very good argument, September 8, 2008
- Sarahcudda, September 1, 2008
- Line Dancing, August 27, 2008
- Personally Opposed, But..., August 12, 2008
- Ellis Island and Unreason, August 3, 2008
- On 'Illegal Combatants' and Target Practice at our Shoes, July 31, 2008
- Vacation Photo, July 25, 2008
- Abortion, Torture, and Ferocity of Opposition, July 4, 2008
- Consent Does Not Determine Justice, June 25, 2008
- Tax the Polluters, May 5, 2008
- Work is a treadmill, and the speed doubles every ten years, April 28, 2008
- The Enemy in the Mirror, April 7, 2008
- In Heaven there is no Beer, April 4, 2008
- Charity, Particularity, and Justice, January 17, 2008
- Single People and Women Should Receive Less Pay For Equivalent Work, January 7, 2008
- On French Youth, November 27, 2007
- Healthy Distinctions, November 20, 2007
- Bibliophilia; Or, Your Tax Dollars At Work, November 19, 2007
- Noble Lies and the Superman, November 15, 2007
- PC Tyranny: Sticking it to the Little Guy, Again, November 13, 2007
- A little fact-facing about labor pools, October 25, 2007
- You Can't Legislate Honor, October 13, 2007
- A Rising Tide Drowns Short People, October 4, 2007
- Meat Market, October 4, 2007
- Apples, Oranges, and Moral Equivalence, September 29, 2007
- Tar-al-Islam, Baby, September 13, 2007
- Global Warming and the Jihad, September 8, 2007
- History as Justifying Sacrament, August 31, 2007
- How Not To Construct A Sequitur, Redux, August 25, 2007
- Ectopic Airliners, August 24, 2007
- How Not To Construct A Sequitur, August 24, 2007
- Consent as Heresy, August 22, 2007
- Stick a fork in modernity: it is done, August 5, 2007
- Equality, List-Making, and Degrees of Freedom, May 17, 2007
- Property and Self-Mutilation, May 16, 2007
- Why People Choose Abortion Over Adoption, May 11, 2007
- Feminist Autocracy, May 10, 2007
- What's Right With the World, May 3, 2007
- Why "Freedom" Means "PC Tyranny", May 3, 2007
- The Wrong Stuff, May 3, 2007
- The Closet Is Your Private Place, May 3, 2007