I keep saying, “It can’t be turtles all the way down” recently with increasing frequency. I think it’s quite funny, but what strikes me about it is at one point it was a striking claim.
So it makes me laugh and feel uncomfortable when I see an analog of this sort of argument taken seriously.
This is the equivalent of saying, “Sure it is turtles, the concern about the lack of turtles was silly, however we should gain some insight from those turtle skeptics. But don’t worry: Even if it’s a soft-shelled turtle, we can stand on it.”
Amazing that she concludes with the radical realization that memory is constructed via perspective. I really thought historians that thought history was more like physics than poetry were all dead.
In the original version of that amazing film, Conan had one more thing to say – “Being quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education.”
Yea, that’s right.
Here’s the always awesome Chuck D debating on BBC Newsnight about Obama’s power to unite the USA.
It was refreshing to wake up into a world free of injustice today, thanks to all those people who voted for Obama. That’s all it took. Change. Now, solvency for everything.
A couple of things that are blowing my mind, besides cynical hyperbolic claims.
1. Joe The Plumber, your war correspondent in Gaza.
2. Russia Today’s Wolf Camera – Watch the wolves they cared for and released (!) into the wild live via webcam. Suck that, CNN.
3. Will Ferrel is a plagiarist, at best. His anchorman character is a total rip off of Ted Baxter, from the Mary Tyler Moore Show. More evidence that guy is an idiot. More evidence that I am too for totally forgetting this great character until recently.
4. Norman Finkelstein loses tenure track job, and the wheels come off in this interview.