"Clinton is a woman beating men at their own game. Deal with it."
Charles M. Blow, "Clinton's Specter of Illegitimacy", New York Times, 2016-10-24, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/opinion/clintons-specter-of-illegitimacy.html.
Showing posts with label game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label game. Show all posts
Monday, October 24, 2016
Friday, June 24, 2016
Be careful of the "domino assumption" of conquest
The domino "theory" touted so much as justification for the invasion of Vietnam has a fatal flaw .
It assumes dominos stood on end. However the game of dominos is played with the pieces laying flat. And when a player places a double there are three possible moves for the other player at that place.
Think Sarajevo 1914. An assassination of two people brought about so many deaths completely unrelated to that event.
Now we have State Dept. analysts calling for more U.S. involvement in Syria. I assume that Russia and Iran will react negatively. I am certain that there will be more lone wolf attacks in the U.S. against the "war on Islam”.
It assumes dominos stood on end. However the game of dominos is played with the pieces laying flat. And when a player places a double there are three possible moves for the other player at that place.
Think Sarajevo 1914. An assassination of two people brought about so many deaths completely unrelated to that event.
Now we have State Dept. analysts calling for more U.S. involvement in Syria. I assume that Russia and Iran will react negatively. I am certain that there will be more lone wolf attacks in the U.S. against the "war on Islam”.
Monday, May 26, 2014
Was Elmer Fudd in the woods?
Yesterday we heard several gun shots south of our cabin property. At least, we hope it was south of our property. We walk along the southern boundary and would not appreciate a hunter on federal land thinking we were game.
I thought that maybe the shooter was hunting rabbits. Actually hares. The snowshoe hares (with summer brown coats and some still with white paws) are all over. They were almost gone for several years and have rebounded so much that we see at least one in our yard every time we walk outside.
When I heard several gunshots, I thought of Elmer Fudd: “Kill de wabbit! Kill de wabbit!”
It must have been Elmer Fudd. He thinks it’s open season on rabbits all the time. Fudd should pick a different state. The best I can determine from dnr.state.mn.us is that rabbit and hare season is November to February. The only exception is that an owner or a tenant can kill nuisance rabbits at any time. Must be Elmer Fudd. He considers rabbits nuisances wherever he finds them.
I thought that maybe the shooter was hunting rabbits. Actually hares. The snowshoe hares (with summer brown coats and some still with white paws) are all over. They were almost gone for several years and have rebounded so much that we see at least one in our yard every time we walk outside.
When I heard several gunshots, I thought of Elmer Fudd: “Kill de wabbit! Kill de wabbit!”
It must have been Elmer Fudd. He thinks it’s open season on rabbits all the time. Fudd should pick a different state. The best I can determine from dnr.state.mn.us is that rabbit and hare season is November to February. The only exception is that an owner or a tenant can kill nuisance rabbits at any time. Must be Elmer Fudd. He considers rabbits nuisances wherever he finds them.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Quote of the day: Law as a game
I am cleaning my desk of many miscellaneous scraps of papers, some over ten years old. One intriguing one is a photocopy of two pages from "The True Game" by Sheri S. Tepper. I don't think it is buried in our bookshelves, and it is not in the Duluth Public Library. It is at the Hennepin County Library, and so I must have borrowed it between 1996 when it was published and 1999 when we moved to Duluth.
The paragraph that I bracketed is:
"We are going to try to do what Windlow would have wanted," he said. "He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game. It was the laws, the rules which made Gaming. It was Gaming that made injustice. We can only try something new and hope that it is better."
How true! One only need read the novels of John Lescroart or look at the work of the sausage factory called Congress to see how people game the system and ignore justice.
The paragraph that I bracketed is:
"We are going to try to do what Windlow would have wanted," he said. "He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game. It was the laws, the rules which made Gaming. It was Gaming that made injustice. We can only try something new and hope that it is better."
How true! One only need read the novels of John Lescroart or look at the work of the sausage factory called Congress to see how people game the system and ignore justice.
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