Who Were the Sea Peoples?

Oh, and this one, too: View them or else Santo will slit your throat.

Well, Wabulon and I are developing the screenplay for the pilot of a new TV series, based on Starsky and Hutch , but in which the character of Starsky is replaced by that of Alfred Tarski, the famed twentieth-century mathematician. Here is my first draft, awaiting Wabulon's comments: Play Pen Night Club: Night. (Inside people are dancing. Tarski and Hutch stand at the bar with Huggy.) Huggy: How do you like this little gold mine I gotta take care of until my cousin Louie returns? Tarski: Huggy Bear, you’re just an invariant transformation of Superfly. Huggy: Funny, Tarski. But you know Superfly and me ain't never been in any sorta one-to-one correspondence! Anyway, my uncle got a big stake in frog futures. He had to leave for Venezuela to check out his new frog ranch. All this happened after the IRS read his latest tax returns. Really. (Walks away. Hutch spots two girls sitting alone.) Hutch: Would you look at that? (Hutch points at girls.) Tarski: Look at that. (Tar...

For those of you wondering where the Bruno and Ron Paul post went: it was a slug trap. I put it up, watched the comments build up, and once I had caught enough of the slimy little critters, I threw the thing out, without of course, looking inside.

I passed by "Man from Ravenna" again and was reminded of what I believe is my father's only limerick. I don't think I've posted it here before, but who really knows the future, or the past, or anything but this passing moment? Now what the ^&;$#!*$% was I trying to post? Oh, yeah, the limerick: There was an old man of Rhode Island Who was known as King William the Silent.     When they bade him good morning,     He replied without warning, "Garunchnik!" and then he grew violent.

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Since pundits gain a great deal of fame from having correctly predicted the future, let me take a stab at saying what will being going on, say, two years from now, on June 13, 2011. First of all, the stimulus programs will be seen to have fallen short of the mark. The Dow will stand at, say, 11,985, give or take a couple of points. Gold will be about $1515 an ounce, and oil at $97 per barrel. The yield on ten-year treasuries will be just under 3%. Unemployment claims will be stuck above 400,000. In response, Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong will be saying "I told you so: the stimulus was too small." And in his response to their response, on June 13, 2011, Mario Rizzo will write a blog post pointing back to the blog post where he foresaw Krugman saying this, and claim that Hayekians have a right to say "I told you so" as well. And I predict Daniel Kuehn will come back with a note saying Mario's post has not proved anything. And Mario will agree!

I had stopped by to peruse the recent messages and was just about to sign out when I for no particular reason remembered this, due to W. van O. Quine: "Yields a falsehood when appended to its own quotation" yields a falsehood when appended to its own quotation. Keep up the good work.