Excellent edition in my humble opinion! Although I am not familiar with The Week, all other chapters of this Bus! resonate. I appreciate the explanation and examples of red herrings and straw man. Its important to recognize in this contentious election year here (ugh!) The Smile video certainly did not disappoint. The Twain wisdom is a good reminder - again for this year. And thank you for including one of my favorite (previously closet favorite) songs Lido Shuffle. I have no idea what its about nor really want to know because the music is just so damn good!
Hey! Really glad you liked this issue. I enjoy doing the fallacy ones - I think they're essential bits of knowledge, especially given this election year. Ugh! indeed.
And as for 'Lido Shuffle' - it IS great, isn't it?! It made this list because I'd evidently put it on my 'To Use' playlist at some point in the past couple of years - and it popped up on one of my many Dad-taxi runs and I was hit by the opening bass line. That does it for me every time. Boz Scaggs is also a soulmate to Steely Dan, in my opinion, and you know how I feel about them!
Thanks Owl! When I was in the National War College during my time in the Army, we spent a lot of time studying logical fallacies. We read a lot of Kahneman, and I we studied the history of the Peloponnesian War in that context. In particular, the Athenian invasion of Sicily seemed to have several biases/fallacies at work: Optimism bias, planning fallacy, and prospect theory to name a few. Thanks for reminding me of that time.
I actually wrote a paper comparing the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the invasion of Sicily. Eerily similar.
Thanks to you, Reub! I enjoy studying (and occasionally teaching) fallacies - and I've no doubt you enjoyed that, too back in the day. Hope you're well - we are, just moving full steam ahead. Thanks for subscribing, too! Really appreciate it!
Excellent edition in my humble opinion! Although I am not familiar with The Week, all other chapters of this Bus! resonate. I appreciate the explanation and examples of red herrings and straw man. Its important to recognize in this contentious election year here (ugh!) The Smile video certainly did not disappoint. The Twain wisdom is a good reminder - again for this year. And thank you for including one of my favorite (previously closet favorite) songs Lido Shuffle. I have no idea what its about nor really want to know because the music is just so damn good!
Hey! Really glad you liked this issue. I enjoy doing the fallacy ones - I think they're essential bits of knowledge, especially given this election year. Ugh! indeed.
And as for 'Lido Shuffle' - it IS great, isn't it?! It made this list because I'd evidently put it on my 'To Use' playlist at some point in the past couple of years - and it popped up on one of my many Dad-taxi runs and I was hit by the opening bass line. That does it for me every time. Boz Scaggs is also a soulmate to Steely Dan, in my opinion, and you know how I feel about them!
Thanks Owl! When I was in the National War College during my time in the Army, we spent a lot of time studying logical fallacies. We read a lot of Kahneman, and I we studied the history of the Peloponnesian War in that context. In particular, the Athenian invasion of Sicily seemed to have several biases/fallacies at work: Optimism bias, planning fallacy, and prospect theory to name a few. Thanks for reminding me of that time.
I actually wrote a paper comparing the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the invasion of Sicily. Eerily similar.
Hope you are well!
Thanks to you, Reub! I enjoy studying (and occasionally teaching) fallacies - and I've no doubt you enjoyed that, too back in the day. Hope you're well - we are, just moving full steam ahead. Thanks for subscribing, too! Really appreciate it!