11 thoughts on “How can this be?”

  1. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: Courtney Love comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the Courtney Love go away… but sometimes she wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that Courtney Love she looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about Courtney Love… She’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until she bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces.

  2. In 1989 I worked at a winery in the Russian River Valley in Sonoma County. The wine maker at this particular winery is a guy by the name of Gary Farrell. Gary was, and is, well respected in the wine business. He moved on from the winery we worked at to make wines under his namesake. Eventually, he sold his winery to the Jim Beam people, which made him a corporate wine maker. Shortly after he sold to them, he exited from the corporate wine making world. One of the stipulations in the contract when he left was that he could no longer make wine and sell them as…Gary Farrell wines. Which is why Courtney is banned from using Hole.
    So, MM, it came down from lawyers (who, we both know, wrote the rules for the EPA.)
    Isiah, I have a bone to pick with you. From the “non-socialist-universal-health-plan” discussion of a few days ago, you wrote:
    “If there is no possible way something can not be true even if it hasnt happened yet it is a fact.”
    What the hell kind of pretzel logic is that?
    Here is a true statement: I am not married to Michelle Obama.
    Here is a true statement: Michelle is married to your President.
    Here is something that has not happened: Michelle and your President have divorced.
    Here is something that has not happened: I have married Michelle Obama.
    So, in your words, “If there is no possible way something can not be true” which are:
    I am not married to Michelle Obama and Michelle Obama and your President have not divorced,
    then, in your words, even if it hasnt happened yet it is a fact.
    I guess that means it’s a fact that Michelle and I will be getting married?

  3. Its called proof by contradiction. You dont prove the statement you try to prove the converse and fail.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_contradiction

    Take any statement I said and take the converse. Now try to prove it, if you can then it isnt a fact. If you cant it is. This is why liberal arts never achieved anything: the people who work in it refuse to define there terms or use logic in any way.

  4. Um Isiah, the Wiki link is all about obtuse mathematical statements. I’ll grant you the validity in an exact science, but not on the messy, contradictory thing called life.
    Julie: thanks!
    DJ: currently you’re not married to Mrs. Woods
    Currently she is still married to Tiger
    Soon, they most likely will divorce (can’t prove or disprove it)
    You haven’t married her yet
    therefore………

  5. logic = mathematics and according to the church-turing thesis everything that exists can be mathematically modeled.

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