Wow. Apparently Jim Lehrer shares some vague responsibility for JFK's death:



EEEP.

Two things that totally surprised me:

• I'm Not There really, really, irredeemably blows.
• Pabst Blue Ribbon is a tasty beer.

Elliott Smith did a version of Big Star's Thirteen

It's excellent.

So I'm listening to a panel discussion from The Amaz!ng Meeting, and the following factoid came to my attention:Teller was a Latin teacher for six years.

Today one of my intensely-concerned-with-obtaining-teacher's-approval freshman students (I will call her X) asked me today, as I getting out my lecture notes, if I had heard about "the crisis". I said no.X: We're not going to import alcohol anymore!
C: What?
X: Yeah, they don't have enough money.
C: Oh, you mean Michigan isn't going to allow the ( Read more... )

Hume's argument that ought cannot be derived from is is a statement whose hypotheses are syntactic and whose conclusion is about provability, or in more extreme versions, about semantics.