I think what they're interested in is catching a shot of me at 6 AM, to go along with the news clip saying, "Gene Callahan actually wakes up and goes to work at 6 AM!"
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 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 think what you're interested in is" "Gene Callahan actually wakes up and goes to work at 6 AM!"
ReplyDeleteYou're right, I'm interested. So how do you do it? Go to sleep already clothed for work the next morning? ;)
Whoa! I'm experimenting with using Siri to write my blog post. That one did not work out so well, huh?
DeleteNo, i actually put new clothes on in the morning!
"No, i actually put new clothes on in the morning!"
DeleteDo you store your wardrobe in a warehouse or do you just toss them afterward?
You expect us to believe that photo was taken at 6:00 am? It's light outside.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't. They have to set up in advance, you know!
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