I'm Tempted to Hyperlink the "Irony" Entry

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Posner'll Be Pissed

Hanah: anyway, the tickets [to the Supreme Court oral arguments] aren't sold


Scott: Yeah, I know. But I'm sure Sasha would agree that they should be.


Hanah: he's not into normative l&e


Scott: I don' t know about that. Not on certain issues perhaps.


Hanah: I'm not letting him sell the baby.


Scott: Communist.

Works Cited

Notice a general tendency in philosophy: When working in one area, we feel free to presuppose positions in other areas that are (at best) highly controversial among practitioners in those areas. To take a limiting example, philosophers nearly everywhere outside epistemology presuppose that we have some knowledge of the external world. If we do have it—as I too presume we do—epistemology has delivered not one tenable account of how that can be so. (Except possibly my own; see my etc.)

William J. Lycan, Giving Dualism Its Due

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Writing Talk (Some Guns)

[17:44:23] Jay Goodman Tamboli says: Arthur C. Clarke is dead.

[19:40:42] Scott says: Huh. At least nothing of value was lost.

[21:36:32] Scott says: 526 words, boo yeah.

[21:45:40] Jay Goodman Tamboli says: That's 1000001110 in binary!

[21:45:59] Scott says: Holy God! Why do I bother counting in anything else?

[21:48:13] Scott says: At about 500, I kind of got into "the zone." So 26 of those words are really top notch.

[21:49:41] Jay Goodman Tamboli says: Are they a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, and z?

[21:50:12] Scott says: Close, but the u has an umlaut. That's what we call "artistic license."

[21:50:33] Jay Goodman Tamboli says: Äwësömë.

[21:51:13] Scott says: No matter how I try and pronounce that, I keep sounding like the Swedish chef.

[21:51:23] Jay Goodman Tamboli says: Bork bork bork.

[21:51:46] Scott says: Heh.

[21:52:10] Scott says: They should have asked him who his pick to replace O'Connor was.

[21:53:23] Jay Goodman Tamboli says: He's obviously in favor of gun rights. http://youtube.com/watch?v=mbs64GvGgPU&feature=related


Speaking of, SCOTUS has just discovered a musty old bit of constitutional lore. Even Justice Stevens, the resident Methuselah, was amazed to find an amendment yet to be inverted, transformed, or outright excised. I won't rest until the Polaris Missile I keep under my pillow is completely legal. At any rate, the dissents should be classic.