Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Mimicry

Mimicry is one of the most important survival adaptations on Earth.

Mimicry means making yourself to resemble something you are not — and to not look like what you actually are.

It is … lying.

All organisms must tell lies in order to keep from being killed before they can give birth. Ergo, lying (ie. deception) is an evolutionarily derived instinct and skill which has survived because it is valuable.

A fawn deer has spots on its coat for one reason: to imitate the dapple of broken sunlight in a forest and to break up the shape of the fawn so that predators do not see it. Protective coloration = lying.

If you have ever hunted a deer with a bow and arrow you know that a deer has powers of reason and logic that exceed any human being's.

Reasoning is not innately human any more than is hemoglobin.

Offended By Science

What gives you the idea that a group of secular humanists would ally with a group of religious extremists?

Hmm … both don’t have a clue about high school level physics and dispute it on the basis of their personal ignorance of the subject ?

Thinking with your gut

We all think with our brains. The human instinct to tell lies is just as deeply and finely evolved as the human instinct to discern the truth. Lying is the most important survival tool of all life. Camouflage is French for lying. Camouflage says, “I am not here.” Viceroy butterflies lie to birds by looking like Monarch butterflies. Telling a lie is critical to the survival of any animal or plant, so obviously, the 'arms race' of crafting lies and detecting lies has been refined to an enormous degree in Homo sapiens sapiens.

Ignoring That You Need to Breath Oxygen

Is a pretty stupid survival strategy for any language-enhanced or non-enhanced species.

Thankfully, our elite U.S. American journalistic corps, the creme de la creme, if you will, is oblivious.

Jonah Goldberg says, "The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism."

Let's repeat that. In his new book, Jonah Goldberg says, "The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism."

Jonah Goldberg Reviews Jonah Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism'

Jonah Goldberg, at Teh Corner, writing to his future readers/collaborators of "Liberal Fascism" :

“I’m working on a chapter of the book which requires me to read a lot about and by Herbert Spencer ... There’s simply no way I can read all of it, nor do I really need to. “

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

My Review of Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Part 2

Jonah, cement head that he is, has conveniently written black people out of American and world history in his little epistle. Why? Black people don’t count. Look at Jonah’s dribble and ask ‘where are the black people’ and that gives you the book’s actual theme. It is funny and scary, like the bad circus music when you are about to throw up and the weird leering clown is about to cornhole you behind the elephant stall. Jonah cannot fit black people into his world view — because they have never played a role in it — so he cannot let them play a role in his history of teh world. They are a variable that must cancel itself out. So he does. By omission. Jonah’s thesis requires black people to not exist.

My Review of Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Part 1

Jonah’s book is a nice fresh, Bhopal PCB-laden breeze straight from 1980 when the Reaganites called Nelson Mandela a terrorist whose defiant black African skin deserved to be brutally executed and laughed at Vietnam War veterans freezing to death under highways while simultaneously making up urban myths about liberals spitting on them. It is Lee Atwater and Mike Deaver incarnate, back for another swing, singing the discordant necrophiliac choir invisible and electric. Don’t miss it.

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Rule of Law

It's amazing how tenuous the respect for the rule of law is, and how closely it is tied to the Enlightenment, which is basically another word for saying that some people figured out addition is commutative because it is and other people said fuck you, we're going to kill you.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Both

If we don't take care of the climate crisis, there will be very little preserved history for future generations.

People don't care. It's easier to call it a hoax.

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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Dumbass Journalism

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/02/ted_turners_land_purchases_raise_ranchers_suspicions/


http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/02/river_remedies_1196563594/