Who can blame the dog?
I’d bite her on the vagina, too!!!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQTDag7u8M
Compromise
“…Oh, Johnny you’ve got a seed in your head
It is the seed of your demise
Ambition’s gonna lure you away
Into the land of compromise…”
kevin gilbert – city of the sun
I was thinking about the awesome ayn rand quote “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil”.
I think of the awesome penn jillette quote “compromise means no one gets what they want” and how the people who think there’s honor in the grey area always embrace compromise. (They embrace compromise for others, actually, not themselves.)
Compromise: two parties giving something up to create something that is inferior to each person’s individual concept.
There is no word defining two parties working on something and giving up something to create something better. I think, perhaps, that is the occasional outcome of what some may say is compromise. But it’s not. It is another word.
We have two things now:
- The first – after each person has given something up – is crap
- The second – after each person has given something up – is better
The “world is a grey area” people will tell you that both of those define compromise. I submit that by using the word compromise to contain both of those concepts, is a compromise of the word compromise!!!
There needs to be a word for the second instance: Two parties giving something up to create something better.
Maybe it’s partnership. It’s not compromise.
I’m certain!
Great Pleasures
One of the great pleasures I encounter each week is my Saturday download. It’s the day I hook up my iPhone and download my nutty podcasts. My current favorite is Skeptoid, which is described by Brian Dunning, the host as “…a weekly science podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture.” He’s done a couple of really great episodes about “organic” food and locally grown produce, but the most incendiary has got to be Sarah Palin is not stupid.
The Palin episode of Skeptoid points out how those of us who pride ourselves for being critical thinkers have to remember to refrain from ad hominem attacks, especially against those who have different beliefs than ours. It’s great stuff.
My other favorite, which I may have mentioned here, is the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Steven Novella and his brothers, Jay, Bob along with Even Bernstein and one of several “skepchicks”, Rebecca, are the skeptic superfriends. Each week, they sit around and wax poetic about things skeptical. I was interviewed by them last week at TAM7, which is a true honor. Steven Novella has got to be the busiest man in the world. He blogs daily at Science Based Medicine as well as his own, Neurologica blog. Plus, he’s a neurosurgeon and does legwork for the Skeptics Guide podcast. The man is smart. Crazy smart.
I also listen to three tech podcasts: the Zend php framework, Ruby on Rails & JQuery. It sounds a lot like English. I’m pretty sure it’s English.
There’s also a guy who decided to read all of the Robert Ingersoll writings. Great. Nutty.
I put the new ones in the “Sleep” playlist and listen to that as I fall asleep. By the end of the week, from waking up in the middle of the night, etc., I’m pretty sure I’ve heard everything.
Fascinating, isn’t it?
I’m going to write about TAM7 real soon. No, really.
I am not afraid
The freedom fighters at Downsize DC have a great campaign going on. Downsize DC wisely points out that 200 times more “innocent American civilians” have been killed in automobile accidents than terrorist attacks in the U.S. and that our leaders have grossly overreacted to the threat of terrorism.
Take a look:
NuBoobs != NuMetal
No, I’m not Jada Pinko Smith and the Wicked Lester or Jester numetal band.
Comedy from the Golf Movie:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qg_bmA9Yo
I owe a write-up of “TAM7 – The Luckiest Tam” and will get right on that.
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