More Abund

Posted on Posted in babl

How about a more fun thread with infrared?

What does this mean? Perhaps he means another thread, or does he mean that the current thread isn’t enough fun. Maybe it is fun, just not enough fun. but when we make few words do the work of many, this odd ironic misunderstanding occurs. By using only “more” and “less” to mean more and more, they actually provide less and less understandable meaning. We share less. Too bad that English has returned to deflate our vocabulary.

Barndoors & Guns

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, K Street Y

After reading this from Dilly Kos.

There are difficulties in understanding correlation, cause-effect, sequence, longitudinal-slice studies, but think of gun arguments another way. Do you suppose that the restrictive gun ordinances that have been overturned were passed before or after gun violence was well underway?

Suppose that you are a small farming community in rural Kentucky. The farmers raise horses, valuable horses. Horses wander; it is their nature to go to other pasture. Suppose several shed row workers are always leaving the barndoors open. Horses wander. Do you think the rule, “anyone leaving the barndoors open will be fired” is passed before or after the horses are already wandering widely and regularly? Me too; I think it is passed after. That is the way of legislation and the legislators. They act after.

What do you think the statistics would show? The Supremes in this idyllic drama would be shown stats that proved that the barndoor rule was in violation of the peoples’ right to be stupid at your expense. Clearly the law didn’t stop horses from running wild, therefore we shall overturn this barndoor closing rule.

And so they did.

So what does this mean to you and your own town of barndoors? The simple law states that: “what you make easy to do is what is done” means that you will soon find more horses wandering your fields. Yippee kiyo muthafucka….. You may now star in your own wild western.