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 that an entranced public would certainly have thrown him in unprecedented amounts, with a dexterity all his own. (“From England,” Harper’s, June 1946.)
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. And that leaves us only two options.
Either the practice of check-writing must stretch back to infinity – which in turn means that the creationists and the evolutionists are both wrong, and Aristotle is right: the universe and the human race are infinitely old, and we’ve been writing checks forever – or else there has never yet been a check, and all experience to the contrary is an illusion.
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 stories of Tarzan’s boyhood (in books 1 and 6), where the young apeboy was always portrayed as doing this kind of thing.