"We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it." From Mel Gibson: "After drinking alcohol on Thursday night, I did a number of things that were very wrong and for which I am ashamed. I drove a car when I should not have, and was stopped by the L.A. County […]
I’ve had a background worry ever since Bush got re-elected. I didn’t realize how much I’d hoped that he wouldn’t. I wasn’t excited about Kerry, more because I thought he looked and acted too much like an up-East Liberal, than anything about him personally. I was afraid they could trash him in their usual manner. […]
People don’t use Logical Fallacies in their arguments because they are stupid. They use them when they’ve started with a conclusion they want the recipient to accept, and they’ve composed the argument to lead to their conclusion. Back in the days of the Glorious Greeks, there was something called Dogmatism. In those days, it wasn’t […]
The last time I used my greatest photoshop masterpiece, it was in another context. Today’s thought is about the Straw Man – The Straw Man argument, that is. Bush and his pals are masters of Logical Fallacy of any kind. Someone had a post up about W.’s constant use of such arguments. But there are […]
Terrorist Alert!
Just because the rest of the world knows that the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction or their Al Qaeda ties is a mythology created and nurtured to justify the Administration’s Iraq "regime change" agenda, doesn’t mean that the neoconservatives or their Administration cohorts know it. A year ago, I was researching the infamous Laurie Mylroie […]
Bush was going on and on about "a moment of opportunity." That’s fine. It’s a good idea. Even lunatics have good ideas, say intelligent things. Then he went further and started to talk about Hezbollah’s sponsers – Syria and Iran. Again, if it were anyone else in the universe saying it, I’d think he was […]
Terrorist Alert!
So much to talk about. So little time. John Bolton up for review [Argh]. Newt Gingrich in the news fomenting war [double Argh]. The Middle East going up in flames, itching for World War III. But what I want to say is old business – the "Phase II" investigation of the Iraqi prewar Intelligence, Douglas […]
Newt Gingrich’s website makes it painfully clear that this paragon of neoconservative mumbo-jumbo is going to run for President. He’s announcing for World War III. Right now, he wants to fire Condi Rice because she’s not enough of a war-monger. I’m no fan of Condi Rice, but she’s the only member of the cabinet who […]