Comments on: Understanding Michele Bachmann in the context of Human Evolution https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/ Thu, 27 May 2021 02:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Ronbo Rocks https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531860 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:06:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531860 My Neighbors And The Dogs From Hades!

We had been having trouble for months with our neighbors and their dogs. The dogs will bark all day and all night and it does not seem to bother them.

How can someone have a dog in their yard and not be bothered by constant barking? The barking is at least a hundred feet from me so I assume that it is a lot louder for the neighbors since it is right outside their window.

I have tried everything from cursing at the neighbors to calling the cops but nothing worked and it seemed like the cops felt like they had better things to do.

I finally found a solution to this problem and I could not believe how easy it was. Just go to http://www.antibarkingdevice.com and it will show exactly how to stop your neighbor’s dog from barking.

I was totally floored when I used this product and found that it worked almost instantly! Please think about using this item instead of bark collars which are very inhumane.

]]> By: sdg https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531859 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:24:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531859 So, possibly then whoever ran against her was *too* intelligent for the population in that district? Maybe you should dumb-down the campaigning next time around to a level like “I R SMART” and give out free cheeseburgers at your rallies? Its depressing on a level I hadnt realized to know that such a person would consider a role in politics, but to not onely become candidate, but win the office as well? Next thing you know we’ll have former beauty pageant winners as governors.

]]> By: PeteC https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531858 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:13:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531858 “Ideally, in careers, and especially careers that are important to other members or elements of society, we would like to see people be at least meta-meta-X, especially those in charge of important things.”

That’s only true for a limited definition of “we”.

Most people would just like to see someone they identify as a member of their tribe in charge of important things. That’s why someone like her is in Congress.

]]> By: Roger Sweeny https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531857 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:45:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531857 The trick to political activism is to convince yourself that you are motivated by fairness, love, the public interest, and inclusiveness; that your opponents are not; and that therefore you must hate them, keep them from the company of decent people, and defeat them by all means necessary.

]]> By: Joshua Zelinsky https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531856 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:50:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531856 Greg, I may not have had my mind made up because it wasn’t a completely well-formed thought. I should have thought more before making the comment. I’m not sure if my objection is completely notational or to some underlying idea.

The notion that Bachmann has a lot of trouble understanding nuance or complexity of human relationships seems correct though whether or not the details of the model used are accurate.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531855 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:06:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531855 Actually, my salary (not blogging salaray … that is as Stephanie points out, a private commercial affair) is paid by the University of Minnesota. The UMN gets a small part of it’s funds from the state, the vast majority coming from other sources such as tuition and so on. If you took away the part of my salary that is paid directly by the state I doubt my salary would change at all.

A good chunk of the stimulus package may help people with higher ed. In order for them to do that, I have to be here doing my job teaching them, advising them etc. It will be an act of great patriotism on my part.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531854 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:07:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531854 No, no, Ann. Greg is paid for blogging by a private company by the page view. That would be the free market at work.

If you want to know what some infinitesimal fraction of your tax dollars pay him for, ask his students. There are even a few who hang out around here.

]]> By: ann https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531853 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:50:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531853 And my tax dollars are producing what, besides paying you to spend time blogging?? What have you produced? Whom have you hired? What service do you provide? Ah, you have produced your ego. The world is indeed improved, naturally.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531852 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:30:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531852 Meta is not usually just degree of separation as you use it but more of level of interpretation

I am definitely NOT using “meta” as a degree of separation. (Nor am I over using it.) I am using it as you suggest. Well, not level of interpretation but rather added point of view or analytical level. (Or to be more exact, one “meta” is the relationship between the symbol and the interpreter, or the interpretant. Which then collapses to sign state, and is then subject to becoming the base of yet another triad. The next interpretant is then the next level of “meta.” And so on)

]]> By: Lidia S. https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531851 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:20:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/27/understanding-michele-bachmann/#comment-531851 So who is running next election?

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