Friday, July 13, 2007
 

Friday Photography: Windmill on the Paralia


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Daryl Samuel

Location: Parikia, Paros, Greece

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Bitter? Me?

This guy really has no idea what "obscurity" really is.

Ed Fitzgerald | 7/13/2007 02:44:00 AM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE


Thursday, July 12, 2007
 

Inexplicable

I sure don't understand it.
There is a short list of absolutes in this world. But a precious few decisions have enough historical precedent as to render them so insanely idiotic that they should get a man reprimanded/fired/drawn-and-quartered. For example:
  • Invading Russia (see Napoleon or Germany)

  • Betting on the Bills in a Super Bowl

  • Allowing your kids to play at Michael Jackson's house

  • Buying any movie starring Rob Schneider

  • Leaving Albert Pujols on the bench of a one-run game in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and the bases loaded

I should not have to explain to even the most hare-brained baseball fan about the last one. But Tony LaRussa, with a chance to finally end a 10-game winless streak against the American League, for some reason left on the bench the best hitter in the NL, maybe in the majors, over the last six-plus years.

Sports Central
* * * * *
You know something's wrong with the game when one of the greatest managers in recent memory decides to keep Albert Pujols on the bench in case "they needed him in extra innings."

Newflash, dumbass: THE BASES WERE LOADED. A single by Pujols and the game is over.

Extra innings? The game should have been won right then and there. This can't be the real reason Tony LaRussa didn't play Pujols, could it? Maybe he was worried that Albert would pull a hamstring with that at bat?

I have the utmost respect for Tony LaRussa as a person and manager, but he seriously disappointed me last night.

Bleacher Report
* * * * *
So what’s the deal, Skip?

“Once (Miguel) Cabrera’s shoulder made him unavailable, (Freddy) Sanchez (who) was going to be the do-everything guy, became the third baseman,” explained LaRussa afterward.

“So you had to save somebody you could use all over the place, and, you know, the game was close enough to where (if) we tied it there in the ninth, somebody has to play in the 10th. So Albert was the guy. Very versatile.”

Essentially what that means is that LaRussa was saving Pujols for the 10th inning and beyond.

And I’m sure Albert felt better when he heard the “very versatile” comment.

That’s usually reserved for skinny middle infielders who can’t hit their way out of a paper bag.

But in figuring out all of this in my mind, I tried to give LaRussa the benefit of the doubt.

And I’ve decided that, well, Tony made a really dumb move.

Go ahead, pick a bullet point and run with it:

• Correct me if I’m wrong — you can’t get to the 10th inning if you’re trailing after the ninth inning, right?

I always thought that you were supposed to play to win, not play not to lose.

• Was the Pujols-Rowand thing a righty-lefty dilemma as far as the pitching matchup?

Nope, Pujols, Rowand and Anaheim-Los-Angeles-San Diego-Riverside Angels reliever Francisco Rodriguez are all righties.

Rodriguez got Rowand to fly out to end the game.

• If Pujols did indeed hit for Rowand, and the game went into extras, couldn’t Pujols have played left field and have Alfonso Soriano move over to center to fill in for Rowand?

Both Pujols and Soriano have played those positions in the big leagues before. They didn’t win any Gold Gloves out there, but they have done it.

• All of this aside, here’s what seals the deal for me.

If I’m the National League manager and I’m trailing by a run with the bases loaded and two outs, and I’ve got arguably the best overall hitter in baseball sitting in the dugout, I take my chances with him.

Especially if he’s my own guy. Wouldn’t I rather take my shot with somebody who delivers for me all year — and for a number of years — than somebody I’m not that familiar with?

If nothing else, at least it makes for a happier clubhouse in St. Louis after they fly back home.

• Had Pujols managed even a single, chances are two runs would have scored and the NL would have won. Worst-case scenario, a Pujols single or walk would have tied the game.

Obviously, a double or better wins the game, too.

• Even if Pujols would have done the same thing as Rowand, Wednesday-morning-managers like me would never have second-guessed Tony for sending his main man to the plate.

Napa Valley Register
Nothing earth-shattering about it, it's just baseball (after all), but there does seem like there had to be something else behind such a dumb move by a smart guy.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
 

(3089/898) All the way down

1016) In college in the 1940s, one statement by [Alfred] Korzybski [creator of "General Semantics"] stuck in my mind: "Whatever you say something is, it isn't". I think this promoted a lot of critical thinking, and in my mind it eventually turned into this [Richard] Dawkins-like idea: "When a great many people all seem to believe the same thing, this might be merely a symptom of some contagious mental disease."
Marvin Minsky
posted on comp.ai.philosophy (6/10/1995)

1017) A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the turtle standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the little old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
Stephen W. Hawking
A Brief History of Time (1988)

1018) The issue of antiscience is chilling. However, I propose the following plan to unite the various elite, antilogic ideologues with the footsoldiers of traditional science.

Each group, each "way of knowing," including the traditionalists, will select from among their adherents scientists and engineers to design an airplane. These vehicles will be built and run onto the tarmac. Each group will then be given the opportunity to board any of them for the test flight. A wise observer once observed: There are no sects in geometry.
Frank Guldseth
letter to the editor
Skeptical Inquirer magazine (July/Aug 1995)

1019) No, I'm sorry, but there is just no getting around the fact that we expect scientists to make more sense than just ordinary people. And that's where the trouble lies.

Scientists themselves (at any rate, the ones among them who make sense) are quick to challenge this contention, pointing out that there is no earthly reason to assume, or even hope, that scientists as a whole are wiser (and not merely in possession of certain facts) than any other body of professionals - professional politicians, professional footballers, professional professors, or anything else - that, to sum up, among their number the proportion of good, mediocre, and plain lousy is no different from that of any other organized body of men and women.

"The big question of the day," various busy minds are now asking, "is simple: Can science give us answers based on certainty?" And as the question (not of the day but of the past 400 years or so) is simple, I can give a simple answer, the simplest there is: No

It is not science's job to be certain. That is religion's job. Or politics' job. Or Freudian psychoanalysis' job. It is science's job to make sense.
Ralph Estling
"Lighting Candles, Cursing Darkness" in
Skeptical Inquirer (July/Aug 1995)

1020) Most fundamentally, propaganda works best when we are half mindless, simplistic thinkers trying to rationalize our behavior and beliefs to ourselves and others. Science works best when we are thoughtful and critical and scrutinize claims carefully. Our job should be to promote such thought and scrutiny. We should be careful to select our persuasion strategies to be consistent with that goal.
Anthony R. Pratkanis
"How To Sell A Pseudoscience" in
Skeptical Inquirer (July/Aug 1995)


Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 558 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

Ed Fitzgerald | 7/11/2007 01:54:00 PM | | | del.icio.us | GO: TOP OF HOME PAGE

 

(3089/898) Re-start

1012) The death rate is the same for [everybody...] one person, one death, sooner or later.
Robert A. Heinlein (attributed)
posted by Dan Hayner [IQM] (6/10/95)

1013) Any sufficiently advanced chaos is indistinguishable from Usenet.
"sig" (signature) of Andrew Hackard seen on rec.arts.sf.written (6/10/95)
[Note: Clarke's Laws - First Law: 110, 111, 751, 752; Second Law: 753; Third Law: 109, 647, 754, 755, 1013, 1057, 1402. Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: 1853.]


1014) Provisos of equal time are not served by one viewpoint having media access to two hundred million people in prime time while opposing viewpoints are provided with a soapbox on the corner.
Harlan Ellison
"The Deathbird" (1974)
posted by Christopher Priest on rec.arts.sf.written (6/11/95)

1015) Because you are not perfect, OJ is innocent.
Milos Forman
film director, characterizing the O.J. Simpson defense
quoted by Dominick Dunne in
"Letter From Los Angeles: Follow the Blood" in
Vanity Fair magazine (7/95)

Sources

[IQM] - Internet Quotations mailing list



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 558 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

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Monday, July 09, 2007
 

Friday Photography: Brooklyn Bridge in Sepia


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Daryl Samuel

Location: New York City

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Be very concerned...

...because if people on our side of the aisle are going to continue to pull idiotic stunts like this, we have a very good chance of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory:
Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush.
I'm speechless.

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Sunday, July 08, 2007
 

Be concerned...


...be very concerned about this guy.
  • He looks like a President. We assume that the backlash against Bush will help us, but it could go in another direction entirely: "We tried a youngish ordinary-looking everyday beer-drinking kinda guy and it didn't work out, so let's elect someone who looks like a wise older man."


  • He's an actor. Faking sincerity is almost as good as being sincere. 'Nuff said.


  • He's been out of the fray for some years, so he's not connected to Bush/Cheney or the misdeeds of the Republican Congress.


  • He's from a borderline Southern state. That's among the best places to be from to get both Southern and Northern votes.


  • Politically he's not strongly typed. Conservatives will see him as a conservative (which he is), but moderates won't see him as a radical rightie. Liberals will take solace in his appearance of reasonableness (helped by the conservative-but-practical character he plays on "Law and Order")— they won't be totally alienated by him.

In today's priggish and prudish political atmosphere, everyone's got something in the past to "haunt" them, whether it's haircuts or political stances or trumped-up "scandals" or middle names. The press will run with whatever comes up, since to them, everything's a scandal (except, perhaps, actually running the country into the ground - that's apparently too esoteric to deal with). In the end, it's all a wash.

I think that Fred Thompson will be the guy to beat. He's the one we should be worried about, not McCain or Romney.

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