... and present a petition to impeach Bush. Let's get some news about this demonstration. At least 10,000 marchers are expected. It would be so nice if the mainstream media would follow through with their ethical obligation to cover actual news (the parents did it - forget about it!).
According to the New Yorker, vice president Dick Cheney instructed the media to "roll out a campaign for war with Iran" this week.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/08/if-there-were-a.html
HIV is the probable cause of AIDS ... or is it?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3983706668483511310
Apparently the drum's been beating on this one for a while.
It is a solid state where matter plus energy interact to get a new state of matter without energy.
Luis MartÃnez.-
In the forum Site "Free Dominion," there's a post linking to a study which shows that high-I.Q. people do tend to earn more than regular-I.Q. people, but end up with about the same amount of wealth. Relatively poor personal-finance strategies on the part of the former group seem to be the cause of this equalization.
I have to admit to a wrong call about France that I made earlier, when the riots by Muslim unemployed youth made headlines. I thought that such riots prefaced a squeeze on the French government, as the youths in question tend to be the silent victims of the bureaucratization of the French economy that has benefitted more established and politically-plugged-in middle-class groups, and that the resultant turmoil would bring an end to the Fifth Republic. With regard to this forecast, I was flat-out wrong.
The turmoil, though, seems to have caught the attention of the new and present French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. He has recently said, in conjuction with some of his inner circle, that France suffers from a kind of malaise, caused by too much attention paid to matters of the intellect. Or, to be briefer about it as the New York Times has, "New Leaders Say Pensive French Think Too Much."
In America, any leader who says that would either be visited with a lot of hostility or, in more complacent times, be laughed off as some kind of dunce. Thus, it would be difficult for President Sarkozy to import such a call to America, even though it is profoundly Americanistic at its core: "'too many thinkers, not enough doers' is the cause of the nation's economic stagnation."
Every nation has certain activities that act as a sink for the unemployed or unemployable, offering them a means of life that enables them to feel useful by being useful, if in an out-of-market way. In North America, politicking often serves this function. Paying attention to the "Defense of the Realm," often by reading Jane's defense periodicals, is one of Britain's chief sinks. I need hardly say that the intellectual life is one of the most noticable ones in France. There are, of course, others in any nation and culture in each nation, some localized.
In certain times, it is decided upon high that there are too many people pursuing such a way of life - that standing outside the madding, if economically productive, crowd is becoming too popular. Evidently, Sarkozy and associates have decided that France has reached that point, and have responded with the typical response from the centre of power: officially-sanctioned iconoclasm.
- Daniel M. Ryan
The process of hypothesis generation involves the use of induction attached to an informed guess, like so: "Bill Gates is verified to be rich. I keep hearing riches being associated with ownership of Fort Knox. So, I hypothesize that Bill Gates owns Fort Knox."
Sounds standard, doesn't it? In fact, this process of thought is used sufficiently frequently to make plausible the systemization of it through developing a science of inductive logic. There's only one rub, though...
...the above example is a straight adaptation of a specific instance of affirming the consequent.
Yep, it's a doleful fact that the process of raw induction is indistinguishable from affirmation of the consequent. There's no simpler reason I can think of why a science of inductive logic, not unlike the more recent P-NP problem, has proven to be an El Dorado for even the most brilliant minds.
It makes me wonder if scientists' traditional hostility to Aristotle is based upon a famous one, such as Galileo, being shot down by a Aristotelian logician...
- Daniel M. Ryan
who happens to be the youngest member ever in the organization's history. She's two-year-old Georgia Brown, and she has rated a full profile, with pictures, in the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
As of the time of this posting, the story's gotten 47 comments.
If you've bumped into the "little-old-me" type of person who nevertheless has a certain air, here's what you can use to see whether or not (s)he's a slummer. Just enthuse, like so:
"Wow! You're really in touch with the common people! You're one of the great multitude! Hell, you may as well have gone to my school!"
- Daniel M. Ryan
