History is not so much the faithful recording of observed facts as it is an interview by the individual with his own memory. Everything else is hearsay. We can only know one’s own history, and even then, it is much more how one felt about that history than it is about what objective things were true.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Liars II
You cannot take an outlier, then call it an unusual pattern. What is unusual is the outlier, and no pattern has been established. People love to cite a patch of unusual weather, then treat it as though it were going to be the norm from here on out, then concoct seemingly plausible explanations for the unusual-turned-usual.
Snow Day
It’s no wonder that youth think they know everything, their exposure to adults is to the overgrown children who administer schools.
Writer’s Break
What I like best is how Skyler sheds a second light on, or maybe illuminates for the first time, ideas that can bear repeating. In any event, if you are missing these gems from Skyler, run, don’t walk, to your nearest podcast player. You will be glad you did.
Shith*les
There are shitholes everywhere. Some types of shitholes include anal, oral, territorial, conceptual, and so forth. If we banned everybody who came from a shithole, at some point we will have eliminated life on Earth.
Computational Thinking
Any field of endeavor will, as time goes by, become increasingly more populated by those with low barriers to entry, not by those who will climb the obstacles to excellence. We have to learn to gauge the probabilities of dealing satisfactorily with all types of objects.
Words Poorly Used #126 — Duly Elected
I’m listening to the audiobook by Matt Kibbe, Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff. It is an excellent book, but my feathers ruffled just a bit when I heard the phrase, “duly elected.” Due in what sense? In the real world, natural phenomena are due to natural events. What goes up, must come…
Total War
North Korea is the latest nominee for total war, ie. instant annihilation, from the sabre-rattlers. Pepe, the frog, points out that we are letting Kim’s regime collapse of its own weight, just as we mistakenly did with Hitler.
Manners
“Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
Consequences
“He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.” – Benjamin Franklin