I have not been following this closely enough to know accurately what’s going on, but let me try. On twitter there’s been some discussion that I entered in to, but Twitter’s format is too short to be good for discussing this, so I’ll post a reply to some questions here. This kerfuffle started because in […]
1. Movies to Watch for Studying Plato’s The Republic 2. Bloom’s Plato Index of Subjects 3. Nietzsche and Plato 4. Teaching Plato. ############################################## AVERROES. From the Ralph Lerner translation, Averroes on Plato’s, Republic, p. 58, where Averroes is discussing IV-445: The man in most human activities is more diligent than the women, though […]
Liberals have taken to calling any conservative view of the world a “conspiracy theory”. This often gets quite humorous. They said that conservatives who thought the Steele dossier was a clumsy fraud, a hoax intended to frame Trump, and that Trump was not the slave (whether through blackmail, promise of profit, or sheer evil Trumpiness) […]
Post the photo of the big bass we caught with the net yesterday. We caught him— but his being at death’s door anyway should get the credit, not Ben’s dexterity. We didn’t stuff him. We didn’t even dare eat him. He looked like Joe Biden on a bad day. Pink tail, vacant eyes, didn’t fight, […]
Twitter version of the intro: “Machiavelli says Fear works better than Love. Fear, though, can provoke Hate, which might be strongest of all. I’m thinking of a comment on a news article about IU covid-19 policy, and potential complaints about judicial ethics… Machiavelli famously says in The Prince that Fear and Love are both […]
It would be useful to have a post with info about their various scandals. Kamala Harris launched political career with $120K ‘patronage’ job from boyfriend Willie Brown by Alana Goodman, Investigative Political Reporter | June 01, 2019 12:00 AM.
It seems to me Judge Sullivan may have violated two of the Canons of Judicial Conduct, by (a) using a Washington Post op-ed as ex parte communication, and (b) commenting on a pending matter by filing a petition for en banc rehearing. First, the ex parte communication. Why has nobody made a big deal of […]
Let’s see if I can collect my thoughts, now that the oral argument is over. 1. They really need my principal-agent theory of Rule 48. It perfectly fits the Justice Department’s argument as made by Mr. Wall and I think it would work for Flynn and Mrs. Powell too. The theory is that Rule […]
I’ll liveblog this (Tuesday, August 11, 9:30am) here at https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/liveblogging-the-return-of-in-re-flynn/. Just audio, it seems, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dE1_3e2Po. Alternatives are https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa63PLarrn0AmtHw-ooYtuw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yN7u1zyBPs (withe 3 men discussing—nice setup), and in C-Span at https://www.c-span.org/video/?474473-1/michael-flynn-perjury-dismissal-case-rehearing. ##################################### I got the sense that the judges really really want Flynn to lose, and were searching for technical reasons that weren’t too embarassingly […]
Andrew Gelman has a blog post, “Probabilistic forecasts cause general misunderstanding. What to do about this?” on 9 August 2020. That got me to thinking. I didn’t want to hijack his comments section with something as long as this, so I’m posting it separately. He writes now in August (his March post is here) Here’s […]