A logical argument, known as a syllogism, looks like this: PREMISE 1: All dogs have wet noses. PREMISE 2: Max is a dog. CONCLUSION: Max has a wet nose. Easy, right? Now, let's see what happens when we remove one of the premises: PREMISE 1: All…
The Whitehouse yesterday announced the "resignation" of press secretary Scott McClellan and the reassignment of political advisor Karl Rove, and the news today has been obligingly calling it a "shake-up." This writer sees things differently. First, whether or not McClellan left voluntarily (the reports are conflicting), what better way for the Whitehouse to…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_sc/cottontails What's next on the endangered list? Mosquitoes?
One of the Sunday morning pundits today (4/16/06) made an excellent point. He observed that President Bush has refused to give a firm date for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, because, Bush says, such an action would embolden the terrorists to just wait us out. However, Bush then ignored this principle…
I can always tell when an opponent of Darwin's "theory of evolution" has never read Darwin, because they try to claim that Darwin's "theory of evolution" means that "evolution is a theory." Unfortunately for them, the phrase "Darwin's theory of evolution" does not mean evolution was Darwin's theory. Scientists recognized evolution long…