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I have eaten more packaged sandwiches since September than I had in the preceding 45 years.
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"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
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gcallah
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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...
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
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gcallah
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Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
I thought only non-voters came to Crash Landing.
ReplyDeleteI thought they reserved the right to be non-voters, and considered non-voting a valid choice. At least when you come to Crash Landing you don't have to look at two McCain/Palin banner adds, like that other blog.
ReplyDeleteAre you providing a political favor, or do they pay you?
Are you providing a political favor, or do they pay you?
ReplyDeleteNo, you're mixed up. It's the oil companies who pay me to lie. And if the McCain campaign is paying me to write blogs entitled, "Sarah Palin Is Not Dumb. Evil Perhaps, But Not Dumb" then she really is dumb.
(The serious answer to your question is, Google fills in the ad based on the content. So e.g. if Gene had installed Google ads on this site, your post "The Best of Sarah Palin" would almost certainly have been matched with the same ad.)
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ReplyDeleteI've been clicking on the Palin/McCain adds often, just to waste their money. Do you get paid for each unique user you deliver? I'd encourage everyone to do the same, waste McLame's warchest.
Yeah, I get paid for each unique visitor click. Of course, I do not condone manipulation of the ad system. Such manipulation would undermine the system itself. This PSA has been brought to you by Google.
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