Back to Blogging

I'm going to return to blogging. It and Tweets are not comparable. Except now I've forgotten what I was going write. I remember. My opening Tweets were beyond the chr count. Errata .: I was comparing Heidegger and the logic of early data transmission as arriving from environments were very little was left to chance. It's up to you to rx that. Also I went on to mention Kant and World Peace through globalised debt, which brought me top AA Gill sensing (like a virgin) the communication ability of a bear in a pit in what was Kant's home town.
So there, I just had to tell you.

Bogus Forensics For Sale

BBC Radio 4 broadcast 2 otherwise unconnected programmes drawing attention to the state (The State and) of forensics in the UK (except Scotland etc).
The crucial element was that Private companies now used by the police have revealed the blatant bogus case procedures clearly encouraged by previous use of the State Forenic service. That service has recently been refinanced by the government and the Conservatives are opposing its sale to the private sector proper. Meanwhile something very strange has been going on at the Borders Agency (on Immigration, Asylum Seeekers etc) stemming from an implausible (impossible) claim of how a human sacrifice victim was traced to his original by Scotland Yard.
Of course, no-one gets much animated by this news, I suppose. Yet hail to the private sector for blowing the whistle on the State, whilst no-one is listening to the academicised experts for the reasons made large by the East Anglia events.

Secrets

The very idea that the Enemy would not notice helicopters only performing night operations when the moon was bright. Lack of nightvision equipment in British Airborne was kept secret from the British public. Crazy.

Michael Sandel

I listened to the Reith Lectures. Obviously Sandel follows on from Charles Taylor in trying to incorporate the demotic, or at least detect it for further moral scrutiny. I am disturbed at his popularity. I don't find he has anything interesting to say, much less anything that should be taken up for policy - He will would do well to follow Marc Hauser's studies. Looking up instances of Sandel in my earlier readings of philosophy I found Rorty was also dismayed with the guy. Anyone who is comfortable with the "risk" of authoritarianism, creeping out of their desperate need to enforce universal solutions, is someone to be very uncomfortable about.

Further yet obliquely: I am not defending Polanski directly. I am saying that the cries that the law must stand in principle are absurd in the light of his unblemished 30 year period of liberty. The case need be reviewed. Polanski should not be extradited, nor should he be allowed entry to US since he skipped the country in the first place. The difference between Polanski and a non-celebratory is that he is in the public eye as the average person is not. There is a strange trend in approaches to the retrospective interpretation within law and hammering on about principles is not going to make the law effective in way that lets society develop to it's self-borne challenges.

Obama speech

Christopher Hitchens is the first I have read to give a precise low-down on the Leo Strauss influence. So it is I "understand" Obama's recent Cairo speech. I think I'll find it more difficult to defend the US than ever, now. After all even if Obamma only meant to indicate the desire for "peace"...well any of the psychopath dictators desired peace also. It's simply not workable to suggest that the US is orf the same ambitions as the "muslim world".

Official Google Blog: YouTube Symphony Orchestra: from idea to reality

Official Google Blog: YouTube Symphony Orchestra: from idea to reality

Dairy Products from the Senate of Wales

I'm sure we can live with wild animals in such a way that they - given diversity protected - control their own numbers. Now is the time for the network of wildlife corridors to planned; because recession, stupid. Presently if a dairy is blaming badgers for a, granted aweful, TB infection, then the dairies concerned should pay for an investigation into how the cattle were infected. The scope of such being sabotage and lax regulations, or enforcement and veterinary practices, contributing to the problem. A cull is a risible reflex that would also be a mismanaged delight for the execution squads, who will reap the dividends especially from its foreseeable failure.
I'm avoiding the dairy's product presently. Calon Wen, I hope, is not involved in this nonsense from the gung-ho governers of Wales.

Living on the edge of the Night/G20

What the world needs now? I think it is Marc D. Hauser's Moral Minds.