Truth is Just an Agreed-Upon Concept
“O’Donnell’s LinkedIn bio page lists ‘University of Oxford’ as one of the schools she attended, claiming she studied ‘Post Modernism in the New Millennium.’ But it turns out that was just a course conducted by an institution known as the Phoenix Institute, which merely rented space at Oxford.” [Plum Line]
I once attended a lecture by Dr. Edward Teller. Does that make me a collaborator in the development of the H-bomb?
I’ve attended:
The Sorbonne
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
Sanford
Caltech
MIT
Berkley
and
Suzy’s Dance Studio
This makes me so edumakated.
From the article:
The Phoenix Institute defines itself as an institution that runs summer sessions “on three continents” in the quest to answer the question, “What is it to be human?”
Answer: Not a monkey?
@Dodgerblue: My friend’s mom who grew up in Los Alamos was babysat by Klaus Fuchs, Soviet atom bomb spy.
@redmanlaw: Wow! Did she pass him any baby secrets?
@Dodgerblue: Hey, I found your Halloween costume, Dodger.
@SanFranLefty: I like it. My brother-in-law has a pipe wrench that size — he’s ready for anything.
@Dodgerblue: Sorely disappointed that dead fish and wrench not included.
What are these people thinking: that trampled US American consumers have the resources — or spirit — to accessorize their store-bought Halloween costumes?
(Also, that oil-slicked rigger is kinda hot, in a post-apocalyptic zombie erotic aesthetic. I think I might-would hit that.)
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.