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7 years ago @ Charles Crawford - Philosophical Problems · 0 replies · +1 points

Wise words from Bertrand Russell: "The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." (Philosophy and Religion)

8 years ago @ Charles Crawford - Orai + Crawford · 0 replies · +1 points

Perhaps Hopper is closer to Trump, though with more class. Brilliant excerpt.

9 years ago @ Charles Crawford - Chess and Diplomacy · 0 replies · +1 points

There's an interesting chess analogy in Sir David Omand's evidence to the Iraq Inquiry relating to the (perilous) use of threats in negotiations. The danger is that instead of putting your opponent in a Zugzwang (possibly the last chess move you learn if you're doing it alphabetically) you end up in one yourself.
See http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/media/95182/2010-01...

Ed: Yes. Well spotted. He nails it!

13 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: Gun Control, ... · 0 replies · +3 points

When I was buying up old musical instruments, I was always intrigued to see that in US pawnshops the saxophones are kept under lock and key at the back while the guns are on open display for anyone to play with at the front. Still, a badly played sax can be fairly lethal.

14 years ago @ The World's First... - /blog/if-weinergate-we... · 0 replies · 0 points

Interested to know what the Charles Crawford strategy would have been if, heaven forbid, an incident of that nature had exposed a similar lack of internet savviness on your part. Neither grovelling apology nor blustering denial, I imagine.

14 years ago @ The World's First... - /blog/fearsome-or-cudd... · 0 replies · +1 points

According to a BBC report a while ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2751709.stm), Tyrannosaurus rex might have been cute and cuddly and not the fearsome predator we all believed.

15 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: The Death Of ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The prevalence of 'like' is not to be taken lightly. Read, if you dare, the paper by Isabelle Buchstaller of the University of Edinburgh entitled 'He goes and I’m like: The new Quotatives re-visited'. Ms Buchstaller defends their use succintly: "They're not vacuous as has been suggested by much of the variationist literature... The enlargement within the pool of quotative constructions is not simply that of two intrusive pleonastic items edging their way into a stable paradigm. They have taken on quite novel functions with respect to mimetic enactments, the marking of epistemicity, and speaker role demarcation." When I first read it I was like, 'yeah, whatever' but now I'm like wow,man this so totally rocks.

15 years ago @ The World's First... - /blog/children-s-books... · 0 replies · +1 points

The revolting picture may be tasteless but it delivers some pretty powerful economics messages.

15 years ago @ The World's First... - /blog/richard-holbrook... · 1 reply · +1 points

Charles, your second link should be to http://charlescrawford.biz/blog/art756, not http://charlescrawford.biz/blog.php?single=56. Methinks even occasional typos are best avoided. btw while following the Holbrooke trail on your site I stumbled upon MARS, VENUS AND EXTREMISM. imho a brilliant disentangling of issues as alive today as when you gave the address. Should be framed.

15 years ago @ The World's First... - /blog/speechwriting-te... · 1 reply · +1 points

Will the collpase of the Eurozone join the delcine of the Roman Empire and the beakrup of the Soviet Union as one of the Great Themes of History, or will it remain the occasional laspe of an otherwise meticulous writer?

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