From NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts:
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop
"Sailor To Siren"
"Know The Wild That Wants You"
"Every Songbird Says"
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop
"Sailor To Siren"
"Know The Wild That Wants You"
"Every Songbird Says"
Sep 7, 2016
Sep 6, 2016
Bible Bust
I guess we should keep an eye on it, because it's possible that maybe someday, if Ken Hamm can spoof his way thru enough pigeons, he could manage to make it work, but - nah - prob'ly not.
Here's some drone footage from a fairly recent Sunday, about 30 minutes before the place opened.
Here's some drone footage from a fairly recent Sunday, about 30 minutes before the place opened.
Now, maybe, the good little Christians were all still at church, but it does seem there could be a bit of a problem considering the break-even number for visitors per day is estimated at about 5,600. That sounds a bit low, but never mind, because it makes no real difference when you only get 10,000 visitors on the whole of opening Weekend. Uh-oh.
Adding to the potentially fatal embarrassment, here are a few pictures I grabbed from The Ark Encounter's website:
Not what I'd called "crowded" cuz, y'know, you kinda need a crowd to be crowded. And in case you didn't notice, in a coupla those shots, the employees outnumber the visitors - never a good sign.
Today's Tweet
...has not pledged allegiance to you. pic.twitter.com/s6zPYefWEc— deray mckesson (@deray) September 1, 2016
Sep 5, 2016
Ding Dong
Paraphrase Bette Davis. My mom told me only speak good the dead. Phyllis Schlafly is dead. Good.— Packers (0-0) (@ShomahKhoobi) September 6, 2016
I'm never gonna celebrate anybody's death, but the news of somebody like Phyllis Schlafley dying doesn't exactly make me sad. She was destructively wrong about a lotta things for a long time. And the things she was wrong about - things she led the fight to stop or deflect or delay or mitigate - are all things that would've helped make life a little better for millions of women in this country and (probably) hundreds of millions of women around the world.
If we help women, it's almost automatic that we'll get whole big batches of better men out of it too.
So if such a thing is possible, when Ms Schlafley gets to hell, she can hang out with Fallwell and Scalia, and they can cogitate on why there seems to be such a shortage of Liberals down there.
Sep 4, 2016
The Logic Problem
This has been making the rounds on Facebook and elsewhere:
So here's one logic string:
*Way too complicated - let's do this instead:
1) Elect Donald Trump
2) Waterboard all three
3) Put them in prison camps where they become slave labor
4) Seize their wealth and redistribute it to political appointees
5) Declare lots of a national holidays to extol the virtues of freedom and enterprise and the entrepreneurial spirit
Alice, Bob, and Chris are taken to the police station for questioning. Detectives know that one of them is the thief and that only one of them tells the truth.
Alice says, "I am not the thief."
Bob says, "Alice is the thief."
Chris says, "I am not the thief."
Who is the thief?And there's all kinds of good reasoning going on as people weigh in and suss it all out; and I'm OK at such things, but I'm really not very adept at the Game Theory thing (or whatever I'd have to be good at to get through this kinda stuff), so I just have to take an awful lot of people's word for things, y'know?
And that's OK as long as you've learned a thing or two, and are at least marginally skilled at figuring out whose word you can probably take on a given subject, and who you should doubt - which is kinda the point, but that's more about the politics than logic, and now I'm heading off into the weeds again which should give you an idea what a cluttered jumble my brain can make of this shit, but that's not really the point, but it might be, but anyway...
If Alice is the thief -
1. What she says is a lie... we have one liar
2. What Bob says is truth... we have the one saying truth.
3. I am not the thief... as we need a second liar, Chris saying he's not the thief is a lie, hence he's the thief... but we started assuming Alice was the thief. So, since we don't have two thieves, we discard it.
If Bob is the thief -
1. What Alicia says is truth... we have our one saying truth
2. What Bob says is truth as we started assuming Bob is the thief... this would be the second saying the truth. We know we can't have two persons saying the truth. Then Bob is NOT the thief.
If Chris is the thief -
1. What Alice says is truth... we have our one saying truth.
2. What Bob says is a lie... as Alice is NOT the thief. We have our first liar.
3. What Chris says is a lie... as he is indeed the thief..... We have our second liar.
So, if Chris were the thief, we have exactly two liars and one person saying the truth, as the problem states.
Therefore, Chris is the thief.
I had to read through it 3 or 4 times before I started to get it, and that brought me to what I think is a bit better understanding of the anti-intellectual shit that essentially gives us a political atmosphere where this is what makes sense to too many people:
*Way too complicated - let's do this instead:
1) Elect Donald Trump
2) Waterboard all three
3) Put them in prison camps where they become slave labor
4) Seize their wealth and redistribute it to political appointees
5) Declare lots of a national holidays to extol the virtues of freedom and enterprise and the entrepreneurial spirit
6) AMERICA!
No muss, no fuss, no need for all that tiresome thinking.
No muss, no fuss, no need for all that tiresome thinking.
*this was not actually posted - this is just what too many Pro-Trump comments sound like to me
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