I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
No...the stupidist president we had was William Henry Harrison who at 69 ties RR for the oldest president to be elected. His inaugural address was longer than any up to that time (March 4, 1845)...apparently delivered in a soaking rainstorm that left him dead exactly one month to the day after the inaugural festivities.....just like a politician!
ReplyDeleteZell Miller stood up to the bulliest interviewer on television and thank God for that....Matthews is a democratic stooge and a pathetic cafeteria catholic who belongs in the ash heap of journalim..His days are numbered. And the stupidist US senators are the two birds he named in his speech....you know who they are.....the libs will never be a successful third party because despite all the self-congratulatory ideological purity...you have very little hold on either reality or morality.....and prolly not as much economic expertise as you fellows like to think you have.....
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