"Some modern travellers still pretend to find Acephalous people in America." Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia; or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences, 1753
Reason 11,827 never to assume your opponents are as immoral and ruthless as you are.
You end up peddling conspiracy theories in which your "evidence" says more about you than the person it purportedly convicts, e.g. this immoral lout's ruthless speculation about people not nearly as petty or spiteful as he is.
Oh darn. I missed the other 11,826. :-)
Posted by: David R. Block | Sunday, 28 March 2010 at 08:38 PM
Some people really need to apply Occam's Razor more often. And Freud's Projector less.
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Sunday, 28 March 2010 at 08:42 PM
I missed the other 11,826.
Have no fear, they're all the sort of thing that's obvious to people who aren't inveterate solipsists.
Some people really need to apply Occam's Razor more often. And Freud's Projector less.
Ahistoricality, "Freud's projector" is a verifiable Google orphan. When John Emerson shows up, he'll present you with an award. (He's a collector of them, if I'm remembering correctly.)
Posted by: SEK | Sunday, 28 March 2010 at 08:52 PM
I wonder why Kitely ever wanted to disassociate himself from that blog? They're such good people!
Posted by: Rich Puchalsky | Sunday, 28 March 2010 at 09:35 PM
My god, you must be exhausted.
Posted by: tina | Monday, 29 March 2010 at 06:16 AM
You end up pedaling conspiracy theories
"peddling", I think.
Posted by: Picador | Monday, 29 March 2010 at 08:28 AM
"peddling", I think.
Thanks, I did. (And yes, I was tired.) (Am still tired.)
Posted by: SEK | Monday, 29 March 2010 at 10:18 AM
Speaking of "evidence" and "ruthless speculation..."
I hate to sound so skeptical, but we only have Jeff's word that this email thingy with his old mentor ever took place.
Posted by: Paul T. Lazaro | Monday, 29 March 2010 at 12:23 PM