Maggie's Farm

I mentioned this week Bertrand Russsell and Alfred North Whitehead's work, Mathematica Principea and their logical proof of the 1+1=2 crisis (today I may work from the theme that everything is a crisis).

That Locke ,Leibnitz, Dewey, and Russell all studied the same problem, at minimum illuminates the complexity of "Knowing" with absolute certitude anything . I do not say this as a skeptic or cynic but rather as an observer who must conclude that those mentioned, whose IQ's were in the stratosphere, ascribed their outcomes to the same proposition using entirely different avenues.

BD..Amen bro...and have you noticed how quickly after you "break" a C-note, you're suddenly down to your last Jackson, and it won't even fill you gas tank?

Dag nabbit ...I plum furgots to say that the money deal and subtraction thereof is a damn CRISIS !!! but thar ain't No way 'round that'en. crisis fur sure.

Sippican's crisis of seeking knowledge is one many of us encounter in what must be the most fantastic conundrum of all time. Here we live in the age of the computer, with over 100,000,000 sites, at least 1/3rd devoted to porn, 1/3rd devoted to sports thugs, and the final third devoted to what Sippican and I loosely call "news" (yes I just put words in his mouth, but I ain't no Larry Craig)

A few observation about his revelations are in order.

First, I do not believe the stats. China could and now does skew those stats but it is highly doubtful that they take into account the laogai I wrote about earlier this week, or late last week. Those numbers are more than likely huge. And there is no census on farmers in China that I am aware of.

Second crisis point is, I believe, just a throw away humor line , but he does have it numbered. #3

The electric light banished having half your life wasted by sunset

If not humor then it is ludicrous. From pre Plato through Locke, Hume, Aristotle, Rousseau,et . al. their thoughts and writing did not stop when the sun set. Candles my man, candles.... I do not believe their lives were wasted after the sun went down. I don't even think the candles wax was wasted given what they produced from it's gentle glow.....that would be a crisis.

I enjoy Sippican but on this one I think he leaned too heavily on Peter Magnuson's article. I will happily give him the benefit of the sunset remark as humor, dry, but humor.
I do this in the spirit of avoiding a crisis.

O/T
I'm a Russel Crowe fan and knowing his new movie 3:10 to Yuma is being released I rented the original Glenn Ford version .. I gotta tell ya that unless they really ,really punched up the screenplay with heavy cleavage and a car chase then I can only give it one star...it's a movie crisis.

O/T

I'm really not trying to be an O/T enabler or turn it into a crisis but I feel compelled to say that Dennis Kucinich is a turd, without benefit of any taper

He was in Syria the other day giving what can only be described as aid and comfort to the enemy. It's bad enough our political system allows for someone with the seismic impact of a marshmallow hitting a miracle pillow to even get coverage but the man is a heap big turd (heap big = poetic license), he's actually a teacup chihuahua turd.
It's a dang turd crisis.

Drinking, Gator Nation style

Mexican, an Iraqi, and a Florida Gator are in the same bar.

When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the

air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces.

He says, "In Mexico our glasses are so cheap we don't

need to drink from the Same one twice.

" The Iraqi, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws

his glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots the glass to pieces.

He says, "In Iraq we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need

to drink out of the same one twice either.

The Florida Gator, cool as a cucumber, picks up His beer, downs it in one

draft, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his gun, and shoots the Mexican and the Iraqi.

Catching his glass, setting it on the bar, and asking the bartender for a refill,

He says,

"In America we have so many illegal Mexicans and Arabs that we

don't have to drink with the same ones twice.

I'm glad you had a laugh....and you're right ..incorrigible and that's one of the nicer things that have been said about moi.

Semper Fi