http://boingboing.net/2008/12/09/chines ... um=twitterChinese "poem" on the cover a scholarly journal is actually an ad for a brothel in Macau
In all fairness they are Physicists not Rocket Scientists
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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In all fairness they are Physicists not Rocket Scientists
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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TheConfessor
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Re: In all fairness they are Physicists not Rocket Scientists
Are you behind in your reading? This item was posted five years ago today. Happy Anniversary!themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://boingboing.net/2008/12/09/chines ... um=twitterChinese "poem" on the cover a scholarly journal is actually an ad for a brothel in Macau
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: In all fairness they are Physicists not Rocket Scientists
Note to self, check date on news article I see linked on twitter.TheConfessor wrote:Are you behind in your reading? This item was posted five years ago today. Happy Anniversary!themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://boingboing.net/2008/12/09/chines ... um=twitterChinese "poem" on the cover a scholarly journal is actually an ad for a brothel in Macau
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Bob Juch
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Re: In all fairness they are Physicists not Rocket Scientists
Yeah, or just look at the URL.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Note to self, check date on news article I see linked on twitter.TheConfessor wrote:Are you behind in your reading? This item was posted five years ago today. Happy Anniversary!themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
http://boingboing.net/2008/12/09/chines ... um=twitter
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.