You know the common canard “I pay your salary!” directed against, say, police officers or teachers? Have you ever considered just how absurd that is? Let’s say that I have a dispute with a certain public school teacher and I play this card. Well, in the first place, I don’t pay his salary: I pay … Continue reading Thought of the Day: “I Pay Your Salary!”
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Thought of the Day: Pioneering Jewish Comedians
Pioneering Jewish Comedian syndrome: when someone claims to be pioneering something and talks as though it were something new and daring, when in fact it's already fairly commonplace and expected. Equivalent to saying “Are mainstream audiences ready to accept a Jewish comedian?!"
Meme of the Day: Majority
And the realistic version:"One federal judge without integrity is a majority."
Thought of the Day: A Realization
While cooking dinner tonight, I suddenly realized something. You know that episode of The Simpson, 'You Only Move Twice', where Homer gets a dream job with a boss who turns out to be a Bond villain ("My department is way ahead of the lasers and germ warfare divisions!"), only for the rest of the family … Continue reading Thought of the Day: A Realization
Thought of the Day: Absurdities and Atrocities
Voltaire: “He who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Me: Yeah, just look at what happened with 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.' Of course, what you consider an atrocity is largely dependent on what you believe to be an absurdity, so that the statement, upon examination, only means “thinking the wrong thing means … Continue reading Thought of the Day: Absurdities and Atrocities
Thought of the Day: Evolving Language
We are often told by a certain segment of the population that languages evolve over time, and thus the arbitrary and false-to-facts changes they are insisting upon are perfectly legitimate. It's indeed true that languages evolve. Animals evolve too, but chopping a cat's tail off with a butcher knife isn't 'evolution', and neither is screaming … Continue reading Thought of the Day: Evolving Language
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For most of our contemporaries, 'Science' is only the means to impose their own views as dogma without all the difficulties, limitations, and demands of religion.
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Among its many other marks, one sign that the American education system is a complete fraud is the fact that English classes never present H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, R.E. Howard, Walter B. Gibson, or the like as examples of American Literature for students to read.
Thought of the Day: Another Suggestion
Once again, Mickey Mouse's copyright is due to expire before too much longer (which would mean Uncle Walt's spirit would finally be able to rest). I'm sure Disney will try to get copyright laws extended again, but they can't keep that up for ever. I'd recommend they get ahead of things and select a new … Continue reading Thought of the Day: Another Suggestion
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