Day: March 19, 2005

You be the judge

Riehl World View is helping publicize some folks campaigning to raise awareness (and money, of course) of the dread scpourge, IDD—Intellect Deficit Disorder. Indeed, some well-known people are courageously (???) putting their names, faces and personal battles with this disorder in the public eye in aid of

… a grass roots organization funded in part by the DNC to reach out to dumb people everywhere.

“It is no fun being stupid,” said Boxer at a recent IDD kick-off event. “I’ve kept quiet long enough and it’s time I began to share my own struggle with this terrible disorder in hopes of helping others to cope with its debilitating effects.”

May I humbly suggest you do everything you can to aid those with IDD, starting with a visit to Riehl World View to read the World Exclusive Storyâ„¢, “Please Help Fight IDD: America’s New Epidemic” there.

Yeh, but does he eat it or throw it?

(I just recalled watching a very, very bored gorilla eating his very, very unappetizing and boring-looking meal in a not-so-good ape house at a not-to-be-named zoo, sometime in the mid-70s. Not a pretty picture…)

Oh, the subject? Thanks for reminding me. This week’s Carnival of the Recipes—#31— is up at Flying Space Monkey. I’ve only just now seen the list, but looks like good eats. (And I KNOW I’ll be trying out Escalade Soup… just not measuring and all that stuff… It’ll be close, really!)

” …’tain’t necessarily so… ”

(Where’s a good performance of Porgy and Bess when you need it?)

Alan Woody has a good take on the soi-disant “reality-based” community, as the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade is starting to call itself. Read “‘Reality-Based’ WTF?” and come on back. I’ll wait.

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OK, back now?

It’s ironic to see/hear LLMs refer to being “reality-based” since so much of what they stand, er, lay about (or rant, scream and throw hissy fits) for is decideddly unreal. Reality-based? Like theLLM “pacifist” who was arrested recently for threatening to blow up the White House as an anti-war protest? Now, talk about a walking, talking contradiction. Or how about the female “scientist” at Harvard who says she was made physically ill from hearing Lawrence Summers suggest discussing someof the scientific evidence that fewer women in maths and the sciences might just be based in biological differences? No contradiction in her behavior, now, was there? Or how about the central thesis of Loony Left Moonbattery, that your “reality” can be different to my “reality”—that reality is essentially nothing but a set of opinions?

Now that’s unreal. But then, you can probably recite a longer litany of unreal opinions LLMs cite as “reality” yourself.

*heh*

But all this begs the question What is real?

LLMs make the faith assertion that reality is opinion-based and their opinions are the only “true reality.” OK, it’s easy to make an assertion. I could assert that I am the King of America. Will that exempt me from paying caesar on April 15?