Regarding the Great Aristotle
Saptadip Pramanik submits this question and asserts that the answer is Aristotle.
Yes, he wrote “De Motu Animalia,” or, in English: “On the Motion of Animals.” But most of what he put forward there turned out to be simply incorrect. I love Aristotle as much as the next guy, but it’s hard to say that he was the “father of zoology.”
He was certainly the father of logic. For that, he will be regarded, until the end of organized human civilization, as the man. Imagine codifying a field of study in ancient Greece, and having seen no corrections and very few improvements 2300 years later.
How much misery can be created by inventing stories about Haitians’ eating Ohioans’ pet dogs and cats? I don’t know, but it’s limited.
It’s very difficult to feel sympathy for those who get stung by Donald Trump and his well recognized habit of stiffing vendors.
The author of the meme here has nailed something very important.
Perhaps the single strangest aspect to American political life today is that an entire party, one that not too long ago defined itself in terms of a strong military, now pays no attention to the observations of our top generals and admirals.
“Object permanence” is a term developmental psychology used to mean the point at which infants, usually at the age of perhaps six months, come to understand that the things around them like bottles, toys, and people don’t disappear simply because they go out of range of sight, only to somehow reconstitute themselves later, when they return to the baby’s field of vision.
Remarkably, there are people who believe that it’s wrong for our most visible artists and athletes to share their progressive political viewpoints. I use the word “remarkably” because generally, the folks most critical of, for instance, Taylor Swift, are staunch supporters of Americans’ rights to free speech.
Those of us who were paying attention to the 2016 Republican debates that winnowed the field of GOP hopefuls will remember John Kasich, then governor of Ohio. He’s not unlike Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney in that he really doesn’t have a progressive bone in his body, but fairness demands that liberals regard him as essentially a sane and decent human being.
This lady brings up a good point here, but the answer to the question she poses is obvious: everyone is so wrapped up around the concept that Donald Trump may be re-elected that we have no mental bandwidth for anything else, and that vice presidents are generally inconsequential to the country’s well-being.
A reader asks: My wife just said about some left over green veggies “ Don’t worry about those, I will salad them.” Grounds for divorce?
