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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (48181)	5/24/2002 3:38:35 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I said they were useful, not essential. In any event, it is like having a map of Manhattan. When visiting, it helps you get around, makes it easier to plan your day, and keeps one from constantly having to accost strangers for help. More than that, one cannot know in advance when having the map will be the difference between a successful trip and a failure, as, for example, because it was necessary to have the relations of things in front of one to make a rational plan. It would be a bad idea to plan on visiting the Cloister, in the far northwest corner of the island, the same day that one wanted to go to Liberty and Ellis Islands. Similarly, one cannot know in advance how useful a piece of knowledge will prove to be, one can only determine how reasonable it is is to gain it as a matter of economy (so much to know, so little time)..........

To: Lane3 who wrote (48181)	5/24/2002 4:26:06 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

You all are forgetting here in the Beanie Baby Ivory Tower that the intellectual level can be kinda low out there in 3D.... I did hear that the number of viewers of Springer, Montel, Ricki Lake, even Oprah, are dropping. Surely that's a good sign? Or maybe it means that attention spans have dropped too far even for their feeble offerings. Today I watched a rerun of Win, Lose, or Draw which I do while I "tread". There was this beautiful actress on. She got up to draw-- the words were "Davy Crockett". She drew a bug and then kept jumping up and down and pointing at it. Bert Convy keeps trying to show her the word again. "I know it, I know it!" she screamed and drew another bug. When the time was up, she said in disgust, "It was a cricket." Like they were really stupid. Davy Cricket? Her teammates just stared at her. Well, so she got confused, I thought. Maybe she's not really that dumb. So the second time she gets up, she gets Baked Alaska. She draws the US. They guess that after a while, once she figures out how to put the Florida foot on it. Then she puts a sort of pancake on top. WHat? She keeps pointing at it and jumping up and down. Baked Canada? Baked Minnesota? But she was very beautiful. I guess I am just thinking that this discussion about dialectics and Plato and critical thinking is funny when people think Alaska sits like a beret on the Great Lakes, and Davy Crockett was a bug. Maybe you need to set the bar a little lower first?