Category: Humor
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Bars Philosophers Opened after being Denied Tenure
HT: Allan Jackson: Beer and Trembling Gin and Platonic Phenomenology of Spirits Martini Heidegger Bellini and Nothingness Jean-Jacques & Coke Vodka on the Lockes Maker’s Marx Old Fashioned. To this list I add: Rusty Nagel's. (If you got that, I will buy you the cocktail to which I am alluding.) Continuing in the…
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On ‘Stuff’ and ‘Ass’
A Substack language rant. Excerpt: 'Ass' is another word gaining a currency that is already excessive. One wonders how far it will go. Will 'ass' become an all-purpose synecdoche? Run your ass off, work your ass to the bone, get your ass out of here . . . ask a girl's father for her ass in…
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Face Masks
Masks are a form of cultural appropriation. We have no right to adopt the apparel of criminals, thereby disrespecting by co-opting the accoutrement of their chosen lifestyle. That lifestyle is who they are! But not only that. Since criminals are disproportionately black, masks are also racist! Masks are also discriminatory and non-inclusive. Doesn't every pathogen…
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Kamala Harris on the Passage of Time
We here at Maverick Philosopher are classically liberal in our openness to a variety of points of view on the enduring questions of philosophy. As long-time readers know, one of our mottoes is Nihil philosophicum a nobis alienum putamus. "We consider nothing philosophical to be foreign to us."* In that spirit, we offer the profound…
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A Pronoun Puzzle: “He who hesitates is lost”
Grammatically, 'he' is a pronoun. Pronouns have antecedents. What is the antecedent of 'he' in the folk saying supra? It does not have one. A Yogi Berra type joke is in the offing. We're hiking. We must go forward; we can't go back. But the path forward is perilous and requires a bold step over…
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An Old Descartes Joke
In the fall of 1989 a female student at Case Western Reserve University told me the following Descartes joke. Our man stops at a bar, the 'tender asks whether he wants a drink, Descartes says, "I think not, then disappears. I replied, pedantically, "I think therefore I am" is not logically equivalent to "I think…
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Colander Girl
With apologies to Neil Sedaka, Calendar Girl. A 'pastafarian' idiot was allowed to wear a colander in an official DMV photo in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bring on the hoodies, the sombreros, the ski masks . . . . Story here. Does this have anything to do with the decline of the West? Something. It is…
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Who is Caius?
Robert Paul Wolff here replies with wit and lefty snark to a charming request by one Pamela N., a personal assistant, who wants to know who Immanuel Kant is referring to when he writes, "Caius is a man; man is mortal; therefore, Caius is mortal." Pamela confesses, I will admit, I have not read Kant's works.…
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Principles of Jewish Buddhism
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The Double Bongcloud
Don't try this at home!
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Comic Relief
It is no joke what the Left is doing to our country, but on the lighter side, Dementia Joe's attempts to speak English provide some comic relief as the White House turns into an assisted living facility.
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Wanted Dead and Alive
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So True, Hillary!
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Environmental Racism!
The other night we heard Elizabeth Warren speak of various forms of racism, including 'environmental racism.' Bear with me as I try to figure out what this might be. An industrial polluter dumps chemicals into a river. Now rivers come in colors. Anything that has a color, however, has a race. After all, race =…
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Archeologists Discover Long Sought-After Racist Bone
On Tuesday, in a region of Arizona once known for its Neolithic settlements, a prominent archeology team made a historic discovery when it unearthed a frequently referenced and formerly elusive racist bone (ulnis bigotris). And you thought that "He doesn't have a racist bone in his body" was just a manner of speaking? Story here.