Links With Your Coffee - Thursday
- CNN vs. SiCKO
- Sex clothes anger Kenyan Muslims (tip to Tony)
Prostitutes are known for their skimpy attire, but Kenya's coastal port of Mombasa is witnessing a controversial fashion makeover.
The twilight ladies, as the city's residents refer to the sex workers, have traded their revealing outfits for the more austere buibui - a loose, floor-length gown and head covering favoured by Muslim women. - Presidential Scholars Tell the President ‘No’ on Torture
- Muslims Out Of Australia (tip to Roger)
- 180 Trillion Leisure Hours Lost To Work Last Year The Onion
- A Little Epistemological Relativism
- Red Queen Politics
There's a lot of discussion today about Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" that we are going to have a terrorist attack this summer and rightly so. This is particularly true in light of this article I talked about the other day. It's one thing for Uncle Dick to manipulate lame Duck Junior into thinking he made his own decisions with his gut, it's quite another for people like the Homeland Security Czar to be fear-mongering with his at this late date. "Gut feeling" can sometimes be a heuristic device for making complicated assessments of other people based on a complex set of subliminal observations, but when it comes to assessing something like terrorist threats, it's pretty much complete horseshit:
Gut instinct isn't science
If it were, the world really would be flat, wouldn't it?
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Oh, I can hear it now: "Round-earthism is an atheist doctrine".
sorry, the assumtion of a flat earth was based on observation. without the "gut instincts" of the greatest scientists, who all recognized its value, we'd know a lot less than we do. as it says correctly above:
this applies, contrary to the rest of the quote, to the question of whether there will be a terrorist attack this summer just as much as any other question.
my dad taught heuristics to an elite group of his students once a week in our home for many years. i was really there for the brownies mom made, but i did learn a few things.
none of this, btw, is intended as a defense of mr. chertoff, who most likely is using the non-heuristic (read:"political") form of gut instict.
sorry, the assumtion of a flat earth was based on observation. without the "gut instincts" of the greatest scientists, who all recognized its value, we'd know a lot less than we do. as it says correctly above:
this applies, contrary to the rest of the quote, to the question of whether there will be a terrorist attack this summer just as much as any other question.
my dad taught heuristics to an elite group of his students once a week in our home for many years. i was really there for the brownies mom made, but i did learn a few things.
none of this, btw, is intended as a defense of mr. chertoff, who most likely is using the non-heuristic (read:"political") form of gut instict. that's my gut instict.
My gut feeling tells me that the earth is a pyramid, actually.
Imams are pigs. The Australian is right. Furthermore, No visa should ever be given to an imam, priest, minister, or rabbi, or whatever these suckers want to call themselves.
If one falls into one of these categories, one certainly a fraud. In addition, one might be a terrorist. All of the above classes are certainly misogynists.
These people, if you can call them "people", should never be allowed to travel.
Bernarda,
You forgot CEOs, homeschoolers and SUV owners. Oh and can we ban soccer fans - they're freaks!
And people with offensive bumper stickers, scum, they are. Let's herd them into camps for people with subhuman traits and then we can...
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