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DJEver Notice? LXXVIII
4 May 2013 10:43 am

People who think like adults argue like adults; therefore, people who want to think like adults, are obliged to argue that way. It can be tough to do sometimes. First thing to keep in mind is that you have to engage the ideas and not the people pushing them. What tends to get you bogged down here is pattern recognition: It is an entirely valid argument to say, for example, “I notice women who push the crappiest and silliest radical-feminist ideas have hyphenated names.” Certainly it is not politically correct, …

Thoughts From the Campus About Gun Control
21 Apr 2013 11:25 am

Who’s squirming harder: The gentleman appearing from 2:24 through 3:03 pronouncing “if guns are outlawed then only outlaws have guns” to be a “weak argument,” but unable to explain his rationale…or me, watching him. Him, I suppose, if I could film my first reaction in the web cam and measure it…I’m probably just slightly wincing. But it seems like I’m doing more. Lots of proxy embarrassment.
They’re not teaching ‘em what to think, they’re teaching ‘em how to think. That’s what we’re told…well…I have issues with both the what and the …

Bad Lefty Ideas This Week
20 Apr 2013 9:36 am

This is one of those weeks where I hope people have been paying attention…
The following were either written/uttered since Monday morning, or else revealed to be dreadfully bad ideas since Monday morning. Quite a week for a good education, for anyone willing to watch, listen & remember.
1. Hoping that the persons responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing incident were “white Americans.”
2. Trying to pass a gun bill to make it harder for American citizens to keep and bear arms.
3. Blaming the “lobbies” when the gun bill fails, because the senators …

Earth Hour is…
25 Mar 2013 6:18 am

A “dry run” at not-solving a phony problem, so we can get our pretend-to-solve-it skills at peak performance [for] when we start not-solving the real ones.
Words of wisdom from me, over at the Hello Kitty of Blogging.
Veering off on a tangent, in a piece of correspondence, I elaborate “off line”:
People are frustrated, bored, want to go through the motions of building something great and grand. But…They are destroyers, not creators. You ask them what they’re building, they can’t answer. You ask them what they’re destroying — they can. You ask …

Two Halves of a Perpetual Motion Machine
25 Mar 2013 4:37 am

Was just given cause to think about this…

For those who can’t spare the 65 seconds to watch all the way through, someone’s prepared a cool animated .GIF:

Not sure what got me on that. I was reading Gerard’s site, and I happened across something there…this, I think. Which led me to this. Oh, dear. Oh yes, that must have been it. Definitely yes.
If the latest news out of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in San Francisco is accurate, those who both worry about the dangers of manmade climate change and support …

Katie’s Rescue
24 Mar 2013 8:24 pm

Here’s your first pic…

To find out what it’s all about, go read up over here. Bojangles is tops, in my book. I’d like to buy him a cube steak. Katie too.
Hat tip to Nightfly.
Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes.

Don’t Help Yourselves
11 Mar 2013 11:42 am

During a discussion, with Cylar Z over at The Hello Kitty of Blogging, I pointed something out…
I get the distinct impression that we’re all arguing about something here that doesn’t have anything to do with guns. Like Mencken said, puritanism is the fear that someone somewhere is having a good time; liberalism is a fear that someone somewhere is taking charge of a situation, protecting themselves, making a profit, doing something to adapt to reality or make life better for themselves in some way.
I was thinking that during the health …

Jeb Bush Says History Will Be Kind to George W.
11 Mar 2013 10:48 am

NBC News:
“In his four years as president a lot of amazing accomplishments took place,” said Jeb Bush, the son of former President George H.W. Bush, during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. “So my guess is that history will be kind to my brother, the further out you get from this and the more people compare his tenure to what’s going on now.”
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush discusses the shifting statistics of the Republican party.
The 43rd president has largely stayed out of the spotlight since leaving office. After …

“Then He Went Out and Bought an AR-15″
11 Mar 2013 10:48 am

From Gateway Pundit:
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), a victim of a mass shooting in 2011, and her husband, Mark Kelly, testified before a Congressional panel on gun control in January. Kelly told the assembled members of Congress that modern weapons “Have turned every single corner of our society into places of carnage and gross human loss.”
Then he went out and bought an AR-15.
From Breitbart:
Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an “assault weapon,” he called it)—which he now says he intended …

About the President’s Presser Yesterday
2 Mar 2013 10:29 am

On the “Jedi mind-meld,” Sulu says the President got it right so that settles it…if we recognize an appeal-to-authority argument as valid. I’m afraid, though, if this demonstrates anything at all, what it demonstrates are the many flaws in that form of argument. To use one’s good name as a lever for moving insincere ambitions is a sultry and seductive temptation in the human condition, and it lives in the forever. None of us are immune. I recall Vint Cerf, recognized as the father of TCP/IP, weighing in with the …

It Isn’t Science
16 Feb 2013 12:32 pm

On the whole climate change thing, as far as the science goes, my position isn’t too remarkably different from blogger friend Phil’s. I think it is perhaps measurable lately, due to our inevitably sharpening skills and technology in measuring things, that human activity is having an impact on the environment around us. But not in any way remarkably different from the effect any other species has on its environment, as the environment certainly has an effect on all those species. It is a relationship involving mutual dependence and mutual effect.
This …

Dependence
11 Feb 2013 11:27 am

Spent yesterday bike riding around the Cupertino / Mountainview / Menlo Park area. I was thoroughly beaten down and exhausted by the end of it, by which time I’d been at it for over twelve hours including the long drive. This distresses me greatly, because my bike computer showed just over forty miles and my daily record is twice that. The most likely conclusion to be reached is it’s seasonal out-of-shape-ness, which isn’t so bad. Next most likely conclusion is that I’m getting older…which is dreadful, of course, because that …

Differences
11 Feb 2013 11:26 am

From the twenty truths that are absolutely non-partisan, or damn well ought to be…
8. [blank] and [blank] are meaningfully different; what works for one does not necessarily work for the other.
9. [blank] and [blank] are functionally equivalent; they are not different in any meaningful way.
Those two, #8 and #9, are perhaps the most difficult truths to recognize in some situations, out of all of the twenty. They are also, perhaps, the most important.
And our friends the liberals seem to take exception to them, especially #8. I’m reminded of one of …

Information as a Contaminant
27 Jan 2013 7:50 am

Not sure the motives involved. They are probably scattered in all sorts of directions. But this has been a theme we’ve heard more and more in the last couple decades or so: Everyone is now dumber for having heard that. I’m sure a lot of it is the comedy value, some of it is cool and chic hipster apathy-about-everything, which overlaps with the phobia felt by our detailphobes against the idea of ever studying anything down to any depth, or caring about anything up to some level of passion.
The theme, …

I Made a New Word LXI
26 Jan 2013 11:33 am

De•tail•phobe (n.) (•phobia) (•phobic (adj.) )
Many among us have been noticing that, while a lot of widely-known events are game changers and should not be — in fact, shouldn’t even be widely-known — there are other such events that are not game-changers although they should be.
The American people do not seem to be “concerned” [about Benghazi]…few people except us blogophiles on the right are listening, and [White House Press Sec'y Jay] Carney and [President] Obama have learned that simply thumbing their noses at the American people is an excellent way …

Emperor Barry’s Special License
19 Jan 2013 11:21 am

This past week, I wrote loquaciously about a mindset I’ve seen and heard, either with greater frequency in recent years, or with a constant frequency that I notice more acutely during that time. It is difficult to tell which, and this is often the confusion to be tolerated when one’s awareness increases. The mindset could be concisely summarized as “Since I know what I’m doing, everyone else should be doing it my way, and if they do anything differently then they must not know anything about what they’re doing.” With …

Google Juice
19 Jan 2013 11:15 am

Been on a bit of a wild tear lately about thinking errors. liberals seem to regard skill and proclivity to deceive, as some kind of a desirable individual quality; they appear to see all other individual skills and exceptional attributes, as bad things (which was a re-do of my earlier post about cockiness); they prioritize process over outcome as a result of seeing object representations, as the objects themselves; the general public, momentarily blessing the liberal solution, fails to question the intended end result of liberal policy; and, some among …

The Elements of Style…
19 Jan 2013 11:11 am

…should be renamed to “Just stop using any style that isn’t exactly like ours.”
Some folks may be shocked by this, but not everyone is fond of Strunk & White.
However, before I join in on the assault, let’s get something out of the way. As far as that particular critique goes, I’m actually on Strunk & White’s court in the matter on which it spends great volume and intensity picking them apart, which is the active voice versus passive voice. Even here, though, I am not concerned about “style” so much …

The ObamaPhone Lady Learned
19 Jan 2013 11:09 am

What’s this say about the people who haven’t?

From Moonbattery.
Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes.

Memo For File CLXXVII
19 Jan 2013 11:05 am

Item:
There exists a thread about global warming, in which someone said something pretty damn enlightening and educational. This has sent a jolt through the long-dead four hundred plus comments long thread, which had previously been lying dormant for half a year. Much of the rest of it is stupid. After everyone’s said their piece and the thread lies still for a little while, I’ll do another post on the good stuff that was added.
Item:
There exists another thread about global warming, kicked off when someone was talking smack about Anthony Watts …

IRS abuse: The end of Obama?

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