In a frequently recycled list of proposed New Year's resolutions, Ann Landers urges:
Vow not to make a promise you don't think you can keep.
However, she fails to advise a course of action in the case that you think you might not be able to live up to this vow.
(Maybe she was too busy trying to construct a set containing sets that are not members of themselves.)
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It's June, the month of weddings, and as it turns out the 34th anniversary of our own wedding. Mrs. R. and I are off at still another wedding this weekend, but I ran into some romantic vows to share with everyone.
Oh, lord, what have we done to deserve the affliction that is Michele Bachmann? I'm beginning to think there is no god up there.
In a townhall meeting, John McCain said "I want to look you in the eye: I will not raise taxes." Anti-tax wingnut Grover Norquist declared that this was:
Them folk are not like us folk.
As a huge fan of A.N. Whitehead & B. Russell, as well Kurt Gödel, I wish you a happy new year! (You do lose a point or two for the parenthetical remark.)
Of course, Janet, you know exactly what she meant, and are pedantically applying the wrong tool for the job. Smug self-satisfaction is so addictive. PS: no one writes to you for personal advice. Jealous?
Your gratuitous, self-serving remarks are unkind. You know exactly what she meant. Honesty is another ethical responsibility of the well-educated. Shame on you.
That is too funny.
um, I thought Janet was making a, you know, joke. A philosophy joke -- maybe that's oxymoronic?