Sidewalk to Nowhere
Why shouldn't Obama move to the center? The people are generally morons.
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
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...
I attended an Obama rally with my son a couple of weeks ago in Dunedin Florida. Obama staffers were all over the crowd, and there were plenty of protesters screaming at those queued to enter the stadium.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama staff gave clear instructions that we shouldn't say anything negative, that we should chant, "yes, we can" to drown them out. I didn't hear any profanity that day.
Woody has a cru-u-sh, Woody has a cru-u-sh.
ReplyDeleteThere IS a place where the sidewalk ends, as Shel S. wrote.
ReplyDelete"For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends."
The GOP is rapidly becoming the American Fascist Party.
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