Comments on: One Mystery Solved, Two More Posed

By: Stan Peterson

Stan Peterson — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:51:48 +0000

Sense is only common when it’s logically and succintly expressed. Well done.

By: too many steves

too many steves — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:40:27 +0000

It would, wouldn’t it. I’m bummed about Giuliani’s missteps because I apparently match up very well with him on the issues:

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

By: Ryan Bonneville

Ryan Bonneville — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:47:51 +0000

Steves, that would definitely make him the Worst. President. Ever.

By: too many steves

too many steves — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:16:15 +0000

Well, really, that’s it! Bush is simultaneously a corrupt, evil, conspirator AND stupid & incompetent.

By: miriam

miriam — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:07:06 +0000

If we invaded Iraq for the oil, where is the oil? I’m not getting any. Also, if Bush planned this, he did a piss-poor job.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:28:35 +0000

Michael Moore explained that George Bush orchestrated 9/11 do that the Carlyle(sp?) Group could put a natural gas pipeline through Afganistan.

It’s an idiotic explanation, of course, but they have one.

By: Ryan Bonneville

Ryan Bonneville — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:45:02 +0000

Damn. I put on my pedantic hat and clicked on the comments link, only to discover that Fargus had beat me to the exact point I was going to make. Fine. What he said.

By: Fargus

Fargus — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:11:36 +0000

I think that first question can be asked in a still-relevant way. If there is no sensory organ close enough to interpret the vibrations produced by the falling tree as “sound,” could it be said to have made a “sound”? Sure, you could argue that sound is those waves, by definition, but I think the question really seeks to ask, even in slightly sloppy wording, whether anything has any meaning outside of an interpreter to judge it as such. Not that I think your interpretation is wrong, only that I think it misses what’s the deeper point of the question. I don’t subscribe to zen, so I’m really just playing Devil’s advocate here.

As for the other two, you’re right on. I can dislike Bush as much as anyone, as I said before, and I can even think that he used 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq. But claiming that he orchestrated 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq is a huge leap, and one that requires the type of extraordinary evidence that the mental midgets who subscribe to that theory can’t even dream up.