So, here I am in Arizona, still 9 Mar 2008 Yeah, yeah, OK, I know I’ve been absent except on the comments, but I’m traveling, all right? Everything I have worth saying gets said over beer or whiskey, tonight to Jim Lippard and John Lynch, the latter of whom is my present host. I must thank Malte Ebach for his hospitality over the past week too. On to Utah on Wednesday. Lynch tells me I’m off to see fossils and stuff in Tucson tomorrow. I hope he means geological fossils, and not my contemporaries. Even I think I’m an old fogey. Speaking of fogeys, it’s PZ Mashgvsihem’s birthday. He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. Despite his complete lack of appreciation of subtle philosophy, he’s really not so bad for a cephalopod loving Satanic destroyer of all that is decent. Go wish him a happy birthday, or say a prayer in the comments. He loves that, you know… Administrative History
Administrative Sorry for the absence 11 Sep 2010 I’m preparing my semester’s teaching. It starts Monday so I may be a little quiet for a while. Contribute to a discussion or write a HPS piece for Whewell’s Ghost. Read More
Evolution What Evolution Is and What It Is Not (1897) 6 Oct 2007 I found this interesting and still surprisingly modern essay by David Starr Jordan in 1897, at William Tozier’s blog, where he had scanned it from a journal called The Arena. They had some good public discussion journals at the time. So I took his scan and OCR’d and corrected it,… Read More
History Greewald on Bush on Evil 20 Jun 2007 A very thoughtful and interesting, dare I say almost philosophical, discussion of the Manichaean nature of the Bush Administration is in the present Salon here. A quote: The power to order people detained and imprisoned based solely on accusation is one of the most extraordinary and tyrannical powers any political… Read More
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.