Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

Top eleven philosophy quotes from Neatorama.
William of Ockham is number two, with: “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.” Where it should be.
Augustine of Hippo should be number four, because he said “cogito, ergo sum” first.
Worth a look.
Madness!!!

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MADNESS!

Madness!

——Jocks vs Nerds—-
Michael Jordan having “retired,” with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.
If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he goes to see a movie, it’ll cost him $7.00, but he’ll make $18,550 while he’s there.
If he […]

Madness!

This blog is three years old this month. Actually, this domain is three years old, and the blog migrated from blogspot, and was eight months older.
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Madness!

Heh heh. “In Congress”. Heh. Clinton is not even on the list, except as a pardon-giver. A couple of them are old.  The Foley scandal is going to hurt everybody.
 Everybody.
 
 
 
 
via drudge 
Madness. 

I used to delete my spam folder every so often after a quick survey to see if anything I wanted got through, or to see if there were any really good deals on male enhancement, or to see if I could refinance at less than prime, or to see if anyone from the third world […]

Did the American experiment with conditional welfare work?
(Hint: yes.)
 ”Ten years on, America’s work-based welfare reforms have succeded.” -The Economist, July 29, 2006

Economist article (subscription required, I think)
Similar free article: Tough Love Works
Good thing Bill Clinton signed it! (Madness!)
Madness!

Sarah Hempel Irani tagged me for a book meme. She also tagged four other people. I was listed second, which a coach once told me meant that I was the first loser.  Or maybe I saw that on TV. Anyway, here’s the meme, without the tagging five other people.  ‘Cause really that’s just setting everyone […]

 . . . they first make mad. Oui, et les dieux ont soif.
Iran, it seems, has begun its war with Israel. Enter world energy crisis and minor recession. Market uncertainty.
The Persians have been playing chess much longer than the Europeans.  They are better at it.  Unlike chess, however, real armies are of different sizes and […]

I bought an airline ticket last week from Louisville (where I live) to Orlando (where I report to my handler) for MORE money than my farefinder gadget just produced. If I had been clairvoyant, I would have known to wait a week. Unfortunately for me, I have a Tiresias complex (not the gender confusion in […]