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Sep. 2nd, 2010 12:12 am> Christopher Hitchens' Slate article describing the Glenn Beck Rally-type Thing (perhaps you've heard of it) as "large, vague, moist, and undirected - the Waterworld of white self-pity" is delightful. Or would be, said Rally-type Thing hadn't actually happened. Oh, and if you aren't tasting bile in the back of your throat enough these days, try this Jezebel link on for size.
> Al Jazeera reports that Canada is missing hundreds of Native women. Oh, Canada. Please don't turn into us.
> Quote of the day, admittedly nicked from Reddit with no knowledge of context: "Democracy is the illusion that my wife and I, combined, have twice the political influence of David Rockefeller." - Butler Shaffer
> In other news...Descartes is a prat, and it's all the more because he's sooooo convinced that having implemented his reasoning, he can patiently and patronizingly explain how, say, the circulatory system works. And it's very sweet that he tries, in fact he's pretty close on a lot of it, but at the end of the day, he quite frankly is a bit of a jackass. I don't mind jackasses when they're right - at that point, they're irritating, but not debilitating. It's when they're not only asses but also wrong that I start butting heads.
On the other hand, Descartes is delightfully quotable (and, as said previously, a prat):
1) On the nature of light, and how it does Cool Shit:
I believe this is philosospeak for "I think it's cool, so I'm going to talk about it. You got a problem with that, punk? Haters to the left."
2) On anatomy:
I'm really tempted to tell the prof that I had to skip this section owing to my unfortunate dearth of cardiovascular systems available for ready dissection.
> I, uh, may have ordered Sherlock S1 from Amazon.co.uk. I am a weak, weak woman. Also, someone needs to write me devastatingly stark fanfic about Sherlock kicking it and still going through life with the monkey on his back. Because the inside of Sherlock's head is so fucking cool.
> Al Jazeera reports that Canada is missing hundreds of Native women. Oh, Canada. Please don't turn into us.
> Quote of the day, admittedly nicked from Reddit with no knowledge of context: "Democracy is the illusion that my wife and I, combined, have twice the political influence of David Rockefeller." - Butler Shaffer
> In other news...Descartes is a prat, and it's all the more because he's sooooo convinced that having implemented his reasoning, he can patiently and patronizingly explain how, say, the circulatory system works. And it's very sweet that he tries, in fact he's pretty close on a lot of it, but at the end of the day, he quite frankly is a bit of a jackass. I don't mind jackasses when they're right - at that point, they're irritating, but not debilitating. It's when they're not only asses but also wrong that I start butting heads.
On the other hand, Descartes is delightfully quotable (and, as said previously, a prat):
1) On the nature of light, and how it does Cool Shit:
"Since this transformation of light into glass seems to me to be as admirable as any other transformation that occurs in nature, I took special pleasure in describing it."
I believe this is philosospeak for "I think it's cool, so I'm going to talk about it. You got a problem with that, punk? Haters to the left."
2) On anatomy:
"...I would like those who are not trained in anatomy to take the trouble before reading this to have cut open in front of them the heart of a large animal with lungs."
I'm really tempted to tell the prof that I had to skip this section owing to my unfortunate dearth of cardiovascular systems available for ready dissection.
> I, uh, may have ordered Sherlock S1 from Amazon.co.uk. I am a weak, weak woman. Also, someone needs to write me devastatingly stark fanfic about Sherlock kicking it and still going through life with the monkey on his back. Because the inside of Sherlock's head is so fucking cool.
