Month: April 2009

  • Radical rhetoric

    Did I hear this correctly? Regarding Mexico, Hillary Clinton said, “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade”, and, “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians”. Here we have a senior Whitehouse official accepting some […]

  • Finally, it breaks

    Contrary to original post re apparent indestructability of iPhone, mine appears now to have broken. Just thought I’d set the record straight. The volume / vibrate switch on the side had snapped off. O2 insurance was brilliant: a brand new model, couriered to me the following day.

  • Predicate logic

    Courtesy of this site, we have a nice succint definition of a predicate: A predicate is a verb phrase template that describes a property of objects, or a relationship among objects represented by the variables. The statement Mat is right can be thus represented by the arbitrary object Mat as it applies to the predicate “is_right” represented […]

  • When is a deep-seated problem in society not a deep-seated problem in society?

    Is racism inherent to humanity? A societal construct? A belief we are taught? Is it possible to be untaught? Are some people genuinely completely devoid of racism, or are we all complicit in the racism that is a part of our society whether we own that belief ourselves or not?