I vividly remember seeing a tv skit almost verbatim identical to this one some time in the early to mid-1970s; but the actors were Americans, the flight attendant was female, and the main POV was head-on rather than from the side. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Check out a couple of amusing – and terrifyingly insightful – essays on procrastination, here and here, by philosopher John Perry (author of the best of the Hackett dialogues). I’m posting this instead of grading term papers.
The best rap song ever written about the dispute between Hayekian and Keynesian explanations of the business cycle! (Though presumably also the worst rap song ever written about the dispute between Hayekian and Keynesian explanations of the business cycle.) (CHT Elizabeth Brake.)
While in San Diego, I tragically missed our President Incarnate’s State of the Union message. But I think I got all I need from Jon Stewart’s coverage of the coverage. Y’know, listening to Chris Matthews I almost forgot he was white until he mentioned forgetting Obama was black ….
A clip from an upcoming comedy about suicide bombers (CHT AICN):
Rebecca West on John Maynard Keynes: He closely resembled a handsome, elderly seal, in the long fluence of his outline, the sinuosity of his strength, the roundness of his brow, and the projection of his gray moustache. Had his destiny placed him on a rocky eminence in a zoo, he would have caught the fish [...]
According to this story (CHT LRC), the first check (or cheque) in England was written in 1659. Clearly this is false. Nobody would have accepted the first check; indeed, nothing even counts as “writing a check” except against the background of an established practice of check-writing. Hence there could never have been a first check. [...]
Sorry, I don’t have any story to go with the title. I just like the title.
Check out this amazing video of a gibbon fearlessly teasing two tigers. Admittedly they’re quite young tigers – but still, they’re not itty bitty cubs or anything; they definitely surpass their tormentor in fangs, claws, and sheer mass. But in speed and agility – not so much. More than anything, I was reminded of ERB’s [...]
Amidst all the endlessly tedious media hoopla over Ted Kennedy’s death, I heard one good anecdote. During a period when Kennedy was being attacked by an opponent for never having worked a day in his life, he supposedly visited an ironworks factory where he was accosted by a labourer who asked him: “Is it true [...]
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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