Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Hell

Pleasure Is Where You Find It

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
 — Albert Einstein

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

A Well Respected Man

He dresses how he votes.
 — David Bridie '25 stations'

Captain Ahab

Fiasco

We need wisdom more than ever
Even with the best intentions
The centre cannot hold
The centre cannot hold
 — David Bridie 'The Centre Cannot Hold'

Strike A Poseur

The triumph of style over substance is celebrated endlessly at numerous annual awards ceremonies — from the Oscars down.
 — Doug Anderson

'A Demeaning Display Of Anodyne Music And Fantasy Costumes'

Inanity writ large with a 10-tonne DayGlo Pentel.  This utterly unnecessary event highlights the absurd efforts that aspiring pop singers will go to in order to lose a meaningless competition and avoid saddling their country with the expense of hosting the ensuing year's telecast, which costs squillions and advances bugger all.
 — Doug Anderson on the Eurovision Song Contest

Wild About Oscar

Sunday, 22 May 2011

The Poetry Of Logic

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
 — Albert Einstein

Synchronised Swarming

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Vindicated

Aspersion Syndrome

Bernard Woolley: You could make her listen to REASON, Minister.
Jim Hacker: She's a SOCIOLOGY student, Bernard!!!

Monday, 16 May 2011

Proving Chomsky Right

The finding of arguments
for a conclusion given in advance
is not philosophy,
but special pleading.
 — Bertrand Russell 'The History Of Western Philosophy' (pp 453-4)

Intuition And Science

It is not what the man [sic] of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
 — Bertrand Russell 'The History Of Western Philosophy' (p514)

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Richard Cranium

Phrenology keeps raising its ugly head.

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Good And Evil

Binary thinking can be both a blessing and a curse.