Monday, November 01, 2004

"It has no instrumental value."

Jonathon Wilde, at Catallarchy, has an thoughtful post up regarding voting, and why he will be abstaining.  The post is titled “Who Are The True Idealists and Defeatists."

He would have to use Michigan in his example of the effects of one vote.

Posted by John Venlet on 11/01 at 04:36 PM
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Right Under Their Noses

I’ve always said, if you’re participating in an “illegal” enterprise, or undertaking, it is better to do it right out in the open, as if you’re simply going about your everyday tasks.  The guy mentioned in the following story was pretty much doing just that.  He should have been burning drier wood, though.

“Man Living in Cave on Los Alamos Lab Land"

Posted by John Venlet on 11/01 at 05:19 AM
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Our Treasure?

The British Museum is imploring eBay to stop the auction of artifacts found by plucky British individuals armed with metal detectors.  Old roman coins, gold and silver rings, and other metal objects from ancient times, which evidently litter the British landscape, are found in the thousands all over Britain, and, according to British law at least, this “treasure” is the property of Britain.

Evidently the treasures of the British empire are not all collected, yet.

“Don’t sell our lost treasure on eBay, begs museum"

Posted by John Venlet on 11/01 at 04:53 AM
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A Conversation on the Way to the Philosophy Department

Bill Ramey posts an interesting conversation that took place while walking to the philosophy department.  Just read it.

“Bush is Hitler: A Platonic Dialgoue"

Via Billy Beck.

Posted by John Venlet on 11/01 at 04:43 AM
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An Incredibly Laughable Non-Sequitor Barb

William Safire has a column in today’s New York Times titled “Osama Casts His Vote." A quasi review of Osama’s latest video, I guess, and an analysis of Osama’s supposed intentions with the video.  The money line.

"That produced a dutiful letter from the Iraqi bureaucrat to the U.N. nine days later that was promptly leaked to CBS News, which apparently turned to the more credible New York Times to do most of the reporting."

The “more credible New York Times."

Right.

Posted by John Venlet on 11/01 at 04:32 AM
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