"So we were at the pharmacy, and..."

My hair is now blue. Pictures forthcoming...

Many thanks to Yael yaello, who knows about this sort of thing (like, how to make people's hair blue), and the rest of the apartment, who seemed to find the whole process terribly fascinating.

Also: I want that your theatre troupe should put on a production of Oklahoma!!

liberal media bias?

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/print/government_approved/

From the article on inthesetimes:

Journalists, according to [Homeland Security Advisor] Ridge, are the “constant reminders of the freedom of expression we all enjoy.” Nonetheless, when it comes to terrorism, everyone could use a few tips from the good old DHS. The goal of the day, Ridge said, would be to provide the press with a “detailed playbook” for responding to crisis, providing journalists with the strategies and (government-affiliated) contacts needed to deal with a terrorist scenario. “A consistent message to the public is critical.”

Some people are frightening. But other people are very cool. I don't understand how the frightening people aren't more widely understood to be frightening, though.

"We've given you ideals and then destroyed them."
-- Jon J. Johnston, pst3102

for all you neoplatonists out there

Third Man Argument, coming up against the Platonic theory of Forms?

So why do we think that the Largeness Form is large?

Say you have some set of perceived things elmer, and in elmer, everything changes over time, or they all have the predicate this-thing-changes-over-time, right? So they have something in common, so there must be a Form this-thing-changes-over-time.

But according to that link up there, there's the idea of Self-Predication, and The Form by virtue of which things are (and are judged to be) F is itself F....

So must the Form this-thing-changes-over-time itself change over time? But it's a Form, in the Platonic Idea Realm, by definition unchanging, right? ... surely this has occurred to somebody (everybody who thought about this) before?

O my readers learned in Philosophy, banish my ignorance and point to me where my logic errs! (eponis, this is me, looking at you...)