- Did you eat? - No. Jew?

My favourite George Bush quote: "We used to think oceans could protect us!" ... No we didn't. You did.

And McCain said about his visit to Baghdad, proudly "I bought 5 rugs for 5$!"  - Great, you cheap fuck. Now we're not just invading them and killing them, we're ripping them off too. Great way to win hearts and minds in the muslim world. Jew down the people who hate the jews.

The conservatives are all about making Al Gore look ridiculous. Except it's not about Al Gore!... You know what? It's not. It's about losing the polar ice caps and then the seas rising, and losing Venice. And losing Holland. And losing Manhattan. And losing New Orleans. And losing Florida. And that's why I believe Al Gore - cause if there's one thing he knows, it's losing Florida!

Bill Maher - The Decider (2007)

easy as pi

If you're english, then it's all about filipino people inside the Philippines. But what about the other native language?

- Haha, to be clear: Pilipinas = country; Pilipino = person; Filipino = language.

- The Universe is expanding. Well, the Universe is Everything and if it's expanding one day it'll break apart and that will be the end of Everything.
- What is that your business? (turns to another) He stopped doing his homework!!
- What's the point?
- What has the Universe got to do with it? You're here in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not expanding!

Annie Hall, 1977

The nomo...

After seven years of reflection in vain, the solution came to me suddenly with the thought that out concepts and laws of space and time can only claim validity in so far as they stand in a clear relation to our experiences, and that experience could very well lead to the alteration of these concepts and laws. By a revision of the concept of simultaneity into a more malleable form I thus arrived at the special theory of relativity.

(Albert Einstein, 1924)

I stumbled across this last night, and it reminded me of... well now - the nomological-deductive model of scientific explanation! Choose not experience, but the absolute as a reference. Which is exactly what the over-hyped theory of relativity says.

I may not admire Mr. Einstein very much, but this got a big smile on my behalf.

The nomological-deductive model of scientific explanation

- you explain a phenomenon or an event of any kind by showing that it is an instance of a universal law known to be true.

Example - dropping a shoe on the floor. 

How would you get a scientific explanation of an event like that?

You refer to Newton's universal law of gravitation. All objects attract each other with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
 
The right answer to the question Why did the shoe fall toward the center of the Earth? is not Things like shoes always fell when I dropped them in the past - that's a generalization based on past experience. The right answer therefore is It had to.

(Ph.D. Daniel Robinson)

"If you really have a problem with yo' burger...

...you need to go see the Franchise Owner!"

The country was on the verge of revolution. They threw a black man up. Now we're like this. (sits docile).

They put a black face on the New World Order, and now we're all happy.  KRS ain't buying it. (KRS-One)

Matter of mind

- What is mind?
- No matter.
- What is matter?
- Never mind.
(The Simpsons' first appearance)