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A painting from end of last year, took some time trying to fix it and failed miserably...
oh well guess i'm just posting it anyway
you are amazing
Wow. Nice one.
Nice one! As commented below, can't see where you "failed miserably"^^
And failed miserably!? Whatever! It looks fantastic. :3
Thanks! I had a much higher expectation on it but oh well.. didnt turn out to be what i wanted haha
What an interesting story this is!
Nice work and well done!
Nice work and well done!
great stuff, epic atmosphere!
The lighting looks beautiful .
you failed miserably!? no way!! it looks amazing!
Thank you! I expected it to look much better (composition, textures, atmosphere...) but it didnt turn out to be what i wanted...
I don't see what would be wrong in this picture.
Well the composition and blending didnt really go as I wanted, but I give up spending more time on it...

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Recommend this to people who like a laugh with their porno.
A funny film noir parody with a drop-dead-gorgeous box cover (pre-nom for Best Box Cover Concept) that should move this video well. Ava Vincent ably apes a Veronica Lake-esque 1940's mysterious siren in this goofy spoof and Anthony Crane is an affable, bumbling Sam Spade wannabe who gets caught in a predicament while trying to take the place of his partner played by John Decker. The editing is a bit awkward, but the sex still shines in moments. A great blowjob is bestowed upon Decker by April Flowers, playing a pin-up girl. The tease shots of Flowers in a short white skirt on a ladder are fabulous. Unfortunately, it is the only scene in the movie with that kind of tease shown, which is a pity considering the great costumes and fabulous use of vintage style lingerie. Flowers' tongue stud is visible during the beginning of the scene; it magically disappears by the cumshot, which is a bit more distracting than a girl having her tongue pierced in the 1940s. Tony Tedeschi and Inari Vachs have a fun pairing as well with Vachs affecting the voice of Betty Boop in her dialogue and during the sex.


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Daniel wrote a nice little post about status of building Software Factories today - using DSLs to express intent around common models and Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) to automate common use cases. See his perspective here
As the team who has shipped most of the Software Factories from Microsoft, patterns & practices continuously tries to help you build better applications using less effort by applying these technologies. Once the rubber meets the road, we all learn, and we build infrastructure to support better experiences today and at the same time provide feedback to the VS.NET folks building next versions, so they can add features that will make p&p's and your lives easier down the road. Entlib Config and GAT/GAX was an example of such infrastructure.
But where is it going? We think there are many opportunities in the following areas:
1. Integration of multiple models - obviously you can express parts of your application with models, but the moment you start adding different domains - especially crosscutting ones, think authorization; or models at different levels of abstraction- you obvioulsy require to have dependencies, relationships and interoperability/integration of models. A good infrastructure for model integration would allow you to yuxtapose concepts around workflow, and manageability events, for example, without having any unecessary dependencies that wouldn't allow you to use that same manageability model around a totally different concept like web service calls or business data state transitions.
2. Bringing in the team to the factory - Right now the factory experience is a lonely one - you build a thing, move on. Artifacts like models and code survive, but beyond this sharing there is no coordination to the collaboration. Just like GAX can be used to automate 'atomic' use cases that are done by one dude/dudette sitting at Visual Studio, we think that something akin to small team workflows can be used to express outcome-centric activities that coordinate many smaller actions. These are not end-to-end processes, rather small pieces of activities that can't be done all at once - like setting up an environment for mobile app testing, or building/reviewing/checklisting against a threats & countermeasures model.
3. Specializing aspects of the software engineering process - we have ways of expressing with VSTS the process (workitem templates, content, etc) that you use for building stuff. What happened if the process could be specialized in the right areas to help you build not just stuff but a special shape of stuff? Are there templates in requirements, bugs, development tasks etc that would be more valuable to you if they were specially built to help teams build (for example) web services?
Of course a key concern I hear is - wow, with all this stuff won't things just become heavier and more context-dependent to the point I won't be able to use anything just because I'm not living in your little world? - and I understand it. My hope is that we can work on our packaging (which isn't precisely a beauty right now!) so that you can take the parts that you need, yet at the same time have a great experience with the whole. And all of what I blogged about is just the work needed to give your team a guided experience when building solutions. Every team in p&p building a factory has to make a balance between distilling the proven-practice guidance itself, and expressing that guidance in runtime, tooling and content. I hope that, as we continue to roll out more of these, you out there in the community will keep us honest and help us make the right tradeoffs.


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FORT RUCKER, Ala. (July 31, 2014) -- Two of Fort Rucker's top intramural softball teams went head to head to see who would take the title of post champions during a heated match that turned the championship into a double-elimination bout.
The 1st Battalion, 212th Aviation Regiment's Out of Trim bested the Fort Rucker Fire Department's Plug Uglies during the Fort Rucker Intramural Softball Championship in a two-game showdown.
Plug Uglies dominated their opponents in the first game, winning 14-4, but still needed a second win to earn the crown. Despite playing with only nine players and missing five of their starters, Out of Trim was able to prove they weren't down for the count, bringing out a superior offense and solid defense to take the title with a 9-0 win in the second game.
W01 Shawn Farias, coach for Out of Trim, said it was his team's attitude and endurance that allowed them to pull out a win in the second game.
"I think our stamina and endurance helped us outlast the other team in the second game," he said. "We just kept a good attitude and we didn't let (the loss) bring us down during the second game. We made the routine plays and gave good hustle. I think this win says a lot about our team, especially playing while missing so many of our players."
During the first game, Plug Uglies took to the plate first and got off to a slow start with a pop up to center field and followed up with a two-base hit, but weren't able to keep their momentum going, racking up three outs to send Out of Trim to the plate.
The 1-212th was off to a better start than their opponents, managing a two-base hit followed by an RBI for the first run of the game.
Plug Uglies managed to tighten up their defense, catching two pop ups to left field and getting a play at first to send their opponents back into the outfield.
The Fire Department team had plenty of time to make up for lost ground and started the second inning on the right foot with multiple base hits, and a shot through the gloves of the opposing short stop allowed for an RBI to tie the game, 1-1.
Out of Trim took to the plate again determined not to fall behind, and kept up their offense by keeping the ball on the ground to get runners on base and scoring to retake the lead before heading back into the outfield.
Trailing, Plug Uglies continued to match Out of Trim's momentum, but a string of base hits allowed for a three-run shot, followed by a solo in-the-park homerun to put the Fire Department comfortably ahead.
Out of Trim was finally able to put a stop to their opponent's onslaught and had their work cut out for them as they took to the plate, but Plug Uglies' defense proved too much for them as they were sent packing, scoreless for the inning.
The Fire Department team kept up their momentum going into the fourth with a string of base hits and two RBIs to keep them ahead, 6-2.
As the game went on, the 1-212th couldn't seem to catch their stride and were unable to get past their opponent's defense, but Plug Uglies seemed right at home as they managed base hit after base hit in the sixth, which allowed for three more RBIs to extend their lead.
Out of Trim managed a couple runs leading up to the final inning, but it was nothing against the aggressive offense their opponent's were putting up.
Plug Uglies culminated their time in the final game, managing five more runs in the final inning to win the first-game, 14-4.
Out of Trim knew they would have to step up their game during the second bout in order to win the championship. And they did just that.
Both teams seemed evenly matched going into the second game as neither was able to make any headway on the other during the first inning, but Out of Trim hit their stride going into the second inning, managing three runs during their time at the plate to put them way out in front.
The 1-212th's defense also held strong, as they didn't allow Plug Uglies to advance, despite multiple base hits, but neither team seemed able to make any headway for multiple innings.
It wasn't until the sixth inning that Out of Trim was able to end the drought with a string of base hits followed by a three-run in-the-park home run.
Plug Uglies were visibly exhausted at this point and seemed to struggle to stay in the game. Out of Trim capitalized on their opponent's exhaustion by scoring three runs in the final inning to end the game and earn the crown, 9-0.


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I like him, will he be back?
There's something really interesting about this character. I think it must be the difficulty in telling whether they're male or female.
awwww I like him better as an androgen, he looks so damn cute nyu
Awww this is so cute ...
Him and Miles are my favorite guy's
Him and Miles are my favorite guy's
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a small marsmallow candy covered in colored sugar and eaten in mass quantities by nerdfighters kurt, john green, and hank green (who are made of awesome)
john green proffesses that no one can eat more than twelve and a half peeps in one sitting.
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I'm audi this sunday to chill with some peeps.
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to look at; to listen to
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Short for person or people.
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Hotels in James Bay
There is a variety of hotels in James Bay, mostly located in the north and northwest areas of the neighborhood. Although mostly covering the mid segment of the market, there is a good selection of luxury hotels in James Bay, including the elegant Hotel Grand Pacific, with two restaurants, indoor swimming pool, spa, and gym. Right beside the harbor, the spacious rooms and the professional staff will help make your trip special. Meanwhile, the 4-star Oswego Hotel has a beautiful, modern décor, as well as excellent facilities, including a full service spa, all in a quiet but central area.
Things to see in James Bay
This very central neighborhood of Victoria offers a staggering number of things for visitors to see. First, head to Fisherman's Wharf where you can see floating homes, and grab some fresh seafood or tasty ice creams. After that, get a feel for the neighborhood by taking a tour in a horse-drawn carriage. It may not be the quickest way round town, but it's definitely the most stylish. Next, the British Columbia Parliament Buildings are a sight to behold in James Bay. These impressive buildings in this historic neighborhood are just across the road from the Royal British Columbia Museum, where natural and human history exhibitions combine to create a fascinating day out. Straddling the border between James Bay and the adjacent Fairfield neighborhood, Beacon Hill Park is a good spot for a peaceful stroll and a picnic during a rest between seeing the sights.
Good for all types of travelers
With such a variety of things to see and do in James Bay, the neighborhood is a great place to visit for everyone. Offering cultural activities in the museums, artwork at the home of Canadian artist Emily Carr, and sporting activities and whale watching in the harbor, James Bay really does have a little something for everybody to enjoy, whether you're traveling alone, or with friends, family, or your partner. Travel in James Bay is easily accessible with or without your own vehicle, and discount hotels are available.
How to get to James Bay
Visitors can travel to Victoria International Airport from across Canada and various cities in the United States. Layovers in Toronto and other North American cities are available for visitors from further afield. Travelers can take buses from the airport to James Bay: take service 83 or 88 to the McTavish Interchange, then change to service 72 to James Bay. Various taxi companies also operate services between the airport and the neighborhood. Travel in James Bay itself is simple: the area is compact and easily walked while public buses are available for longer distances.


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Australia to Expel Israeli Diplomat Over Passports
Australia asked Israel to withdraw a diplomat from Canberra because of the "involvement of state intelligence" in fake Australian passports linked to the killing of a senior Hamas official, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.
The passports "were deliberately counterfeited and cloned for use" and it was "beyond doubt" that Israel was responsible, Smith told reporters in Canberra today. He didn't identify the diplomat, saying the official was asked to leave Australia "within a week."
Australian police and intelligence services investigated the "abuse" of four Australian passports used by people involved in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January. Other suspects travelled on U.K., Irish, French and German documents.
Australia "remains a firm friend of Israel," Smith said today, adding that genuine friendship must run "both ways." The British government in March expelled an Israeli diplomat over the forged U.K. passports.
Israel regrets Australia's decision, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said by phone today. The step is "not in line with the quality and importance of our relationship."
Australia's government "takes this step much more in sorrow than in anger or in retaliation," Smith said in a statement to Parliament earlier today, after the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade called in Israel's charge d'affaires. The Israeli ambassador to Australia, Yuval Rotem, is travelling abroad.
Respect, Trust
"This is not what we expect from a nation with whom we have had such a close, friendly and supportive relationship," Smith told lawmakers. "Australia's relationship with Israel has always been founded on a basis of mutual respect and trust. But Israel's actions in this regard have undermined that respect and trust."
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in March it was "highly likely" the forgeries of British passports were made by a state intelligence service, without naming Israel's Mossad.
The U.K.'s Daily Telegraph reported in March that the diplomat expelled was Mossad's London representative, citing people familiar with the matter.
"Our response on any measure is comparable to the British response and people may well draw their own conclusions about the person who has been asked to leave Australia," Smith added.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the involvement of its spy agency.
There is "no evidence" that the four Australian passport holders -- named by Dubai authorities as Adam Korman, Joshua Bruce, Nicole McCabe and Joshua Krycer -- were anything other than "innocent victims of identity theft," Smith said.
Al-Mabhouh, a founder of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Hamas movement, arrived in Dubai on Jan. 19 and his body was found in his hotel room the following day. Dubai police said he was drugged before he was suffocated to make his death appear natural.


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By "liberalism" I don't mean merely what goes under that label in the context of contemporary U.S. politics. I mean the long political tradition, tracing back to Hobbes and Locke, from which modern liberalism grew. By natural inclinations, I don't mean tendencies that that are merely deep-seated or habitual. I mean tendencies that are "natural" in the specific sense operative in classical natural law theory. And by natural inclinations, I don't mean tendencies that human beings are always conscious of or wish to pursue. I mean the way that a faculty can of its nature "aim at" or be "directed toward" some end or goal whether or not an individual realizes it or wants to pursue that end -- teleology or final causality in the Aristotelian-Thomistic (A-T) sense.
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
The Last Superstition in Brazil
My book The Last Superstition, having appeared a few years back in a German translation, will soon be available in Brazilian Portuguese. The publisher is Edições Cristo Rei, and the book is being kicked off by way of a crowdfunding campaign. The book cover can be seen above. (Yes, that's me they've drawn in front of the blackboard. You can guess who the other guys are.)
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Capital punishment at Catholic World Report
UPDATE: The second installment of the article has now been posted at CWR.
Over at Catholic World Report today you'll find "Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment," the first installment of a two-part article I have co-authored with Joseph M. Bessette, who teaches government and ethics at Claremont McKenna College. Joe and I recently completed work on our book By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of the Death Penalty, which is forthcoming from Ignatius Press.
Over at Catholic World Report today you'll find "Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment," the first installment of a two-part article I have co-authored with Joseph M. Bessette, who teaches government and ethics at Claremont McKenna College. Joe and I recently completed work on our book By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of the Death Penalty, which is forthcoming from Ignatius Press.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Bad lovin'
To love, on the Aristotelian-Thomistic analysis, is essentially to will the good of another. Of course, there's more to be said. Aquinas elaborates as follows:
As the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4), "to love is to wish good to someone." Hence the movement of love has a twofold tendency: towards the good which a man wishes to someone (to himself or to another) and towards that to which he wishes some good. Accordingly, man has love of concupiscence towards the good that he wishes to another, and love of friendship towards him to whom he wishes good.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
I am overworked, therefore I link
Physicist Lee Smolin and philosopher Roberto Unger think that physics has gotten something really important really wrong. NPR reports.
The relationship between Aristotelian hylemorphism and quantum mechanics is the subject of two among a number of recent papers by philosopher Robert Koons.
Hey, he said he would return. At Real Clear Defense, Francis Sempa detects a revival of interest in General Douglas MacArthur. The New Criterion reviews Arthur Herman's new book on MacArthur, while the Wall Street Journal and Weekly Standard discuss Walter Borneman's new book.
At The Catholic Thing, Matthew Hanley discusses Dario Fernandez-Morera's book The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain.
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Thursday, June 30, 2016
Prior on the Unmoved Mover
William J. Prior's Ancient Philosophy has just been published, as part of Oneworld's Beginner's Guides series (of which my books Aquinas and Philosophy of Mind are also parts). It's a good book, and one of its strengths is its substantive treatment of Greek natural theology. Naturally, that treatment includes a discussion of Aristotle's Unmoved Mover. Let's take a look.
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Aquinas on capital punishment
Audio versions of many of the talks from the recent workshop in Newburgh, New York on the theme Aquinas on Politics are available online. My talk was on the subject of Aquinas on the death penalty (with a bit at the end about Aquinas's views about abortion). I say a little in the talk about the forthcoming book on Catholicism and capital punishment that I have co-authored with political scientist Joseph Bessette. More on that soon.
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Friday, June 17, 2016
Nagel v Nietzsche: Dawn of Consciousness
While we're on the subject of Nietzsche: The Will to Power, which is a collection of passages on a variety of subjects from Nietzsche's notebooks, contains some interesting remarks on consciousness, sensory qualities, and related topics. They invite a "compare and contrast" with ideas which, in contemporary philosophy, are perhaps most famously associated with Thomas Nagel. In some ways, Nietzsche seems to anticipate and agree with points made by Nagel. In other respects, they disagree radically.
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Monday, June 13, 2016
Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part I: Nietzsche
Atheism, like theism, raises both theoretical and practical questions. Why should we think it true? And what would be the consequences if it were true? When criticizing New Atheist writers, I have tended to emphasize the deficiencies of their responses to questions of the first, theoretical sort -- the feebleness of their objections to the central theistic arguments, their ignorance of what the most important religious thinkers have actually said, and so forth. But no less characteristic of the New Atheism is the shallowness of its treatment of the second, practical sort of question.
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Monday, June 6, 2016
Four Causes and Five Ways
Noting parallels and correlations can be philosophically illuminating and pedagogically useful. For example, students of Aristotelian-Thomistic (A-T) philosophy are familiar with how soul is to body as form is to matter as act is to potency. So here's a half-baked thought about some possible correlations between Aquinas's most general metaphysical concepts, on the one hand, and his arguments for God's existence on the other. It is well known that Aquinas's Second Way of arguing for God's existence is concerned with efficient causation, and his Fifth Way with final causation. But are there further such parallels to be drawn? Does each of the Aristotelian Four Causes have some special relationship to one of the Five Ways? Perhaps so, and perhaps there are yet other correlations to be found between some other key notions in the overall A-T framework.
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Monday, May 30, 2016
Linking for thinking
Busy week and a half coming up, but I'd never leave you without something to read.
Nautilus recounts the debate between Bergson and Einstein about the nature of time.
Preach it. At Aeon, psychologist Robert Epstein argues that the brain is not a computer.
A new Philip K. Dick television anthology series is planned. In the meantime, gear up for season 2 of The Man in the High Castle.
John Haldane has been busy in Australia: a lecture on sex, a lecture on barbarism, a Q and A, and an essay on transgenderism and free speech. Full report from The Catholic Weekly.
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
Self-defeating claims and the tu quoque fallacy
Some philosophical claims are, or at least seem to be, self-defeating. For example, an eliminative materialist who asserts that there is no such thing as meaning or semantic content is implying thereby that his own assertion has no meaning or semantic content. But an utterance can be true (or false) only if it has meaning or semantic content. Hence the eliminative materialist's assertion entails that it is itself not true. (I've addressed this problem, and various futile attempts to get around it, many times.) Cognitive relativism is also difficult to formulate in a way that isn't self-defeating. I argue in Scholastic Metaphysics that scientism, and Hume's Fork, and attempts to deny the existence of change or to deny the principle of sufficient reason, are also all self-defeating. This style of criticism of a position is sometimes called a retorsion argument.
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
Putnam and analytical Thomism, Part II
In a previous post I examined the late Hilary Putnam's engagement with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition on a topic in the philosophy of mind. Let's now look at what Putnam had to say about Aristotelian-Thomistic ideas in natural theology. In his 1997 paper "Thoughts Addressed to an Analytical Thomist" (which appeared in an issue of The Monist devoted to the topic of analytical Thomism), Putnam tells us that while he is not an analytical Thomist, as "a practicing Jew" he could perhaps be an "analytic Maimonidean." The remark is meant half in jest, but that there is some truth in it is evident from what Putnam says about the topics of proofs of God's existence, divine simplicity, and theological language.
Putnam is not unsympathetic to some of the traditional arguments for God's existence, such as those defended by Aquinas and Maimonides. He rejects the assumptions, common among contemporary secular academic philosophers, that such arguments are uniformly invalid, question-begging, or otherwise fallacious, and that it is absurd even to try to prove God's existence. He notes the double standard such philosophers often bring to bear on this subject:
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Sunday, May 15, 2016
Putnam and analytical Thomism, Part I
Hilary Putnam, who died a couple of months ago, had some interest in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, even if in part it was a critical interest. One area where this interest manifested itself is the philosophy of mind; another is the philosophy of religion. I'll address the former in this post and the latter in a later post. Let's consider in particular an exchange between Putnam and the analytical Thomist philosopher John Haldane in the volume Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism, edited by James Conant and Urszula Zeglen.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
Aristotle, Searle, and computation in Nova et Vetera (UPDATED)
My article "From Aristotle to John Searle and Back Again: Formal Causes, Teleology, and Computation in Nature" appears in the Spring 2016 issue (Vol. 14, No. 2) of Nova et Vetera. There is also a response to the article by Fr. Simon Gaine. These papers were presented at the symposium on the theme What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem? that was held at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley in July of 2014, and the issue contains all the other plenary session presentations (by Fr. Michael Dodds, Alfred Freddoso, John O'Callaghan, Fr. Michał Paluch, John Searle, Fr. Robert Sokolowski, and Linda Zagzebski), along with the responses to those presentations.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Review of Taylor
My review of Charles Taylor's new book The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity appears in the May 23 issue of National Review.
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Friday, May 6, 2016
Islamophilia and falsification
Not too long ago I discussed the relationship between liberalism and Islam. More recently I discussed the logic of falsification. Let's now combine the themes. Former federal terrorism prosecutor Andrew McCarthy recently wrote:
Last year, Americans were horrified by the beheadings of three Western journalists by ISIS. American and European politicians could not get to microphones fast enough to insist that these decapitations had nothing to do with Islam. Yet within the same time frame, the government of Saudi Arabia beheaded eight people for various violations of sharia -- the law that governs Saudi Arabia.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Apologia interview
I am interviewed at some length in the Spring 2016 issue of The Dartmouth Apologia on the subjects of Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics, classical theism, and related matters. You can read the interview and the rest of the issue here. And while you're at it, check out the Apologia's main website, where you'll find past interviews and other features from the magazine.
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Spiering on Neo-Scholastic Essays
In the March 2016 issue of The Review of Metaphysics, philosopher Jamie Spiering reviews my book Neo-Scholastic Essays. From the review:
Feser has found that Aristotelian-Thomistic teaching is a strong, coherent system that can provide clarity and answers in vexing contemporary debates… Feser writes admirably, with a clear, direct style that is polemical but not uncharitable or contentious… These would make excellent texts to offer to students... The clarity may also be appreciated by professional readers as a refreshing change from the sometimes fusty level of detail in recent work on natural theology -- instead, Feser allows us to refocus on perennial issues…
Feser has a gift for seeing the heart of a problem, as well as a gift for clear expression and high-quality, fair polemic -- these factors, together, offer the best reasons to read anything written by him, and this work is no exception.
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Friday, April 15, 2016
Craig on divine simplicity and theistic personalism
A number of readers have called my attention to a recent podcast during which William Lane Craig is asked for his opinion about theistic personalism, the doctrine of divine simplicity, and what writers like David Bentley Hart and me have said about these topics. (You can find the podcast at Craig's website, and also at YouTube.) What follows are some comments on the podcast. Let me preface these remarks by saying that I hate to disagree with Craig, for whom I have the greatest respect. It should also be kept in mind, in fairness to Craig, that his remarks were made in an informal conversational context, and thus cannot reasonably be expected to have the precision that a more formal, written treatment would exhibit.
Having said that…
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Review of Hart
My review of David Bentley Hart's The Experience of God appears in Pro Ecclesia, Vol. XXV, No. 1 (the Winter 2016 issue). (Yes, the book has been out for a while, but the review was written almost a year ago. The review doesn't seem to be online at the moment, unfortunately.)
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
Lofter is the best medicine
New Atheist pamphleteer John Loftus is like a train wreck orchestrated by Zeno of Elea: As Loftus rams headlong into the devastating objections of his critics, the chassis, wheels, gears, and passenger body parts that are the contents of his mind proceed through ever more thorough stages of pulverization. And yet somehow, the grisly disaster just never stops. Loftus continues on at full speed, tiny bits of metal and flesh reduced to even smaller bits, and those to yet smaller ones, ad infinitum. You feel you ought to turn away in horror, but nevertheless find yourself settling back, metaphysically transfixed and reaching for the Jiffy Pop.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
The smell of the sheep (Updated)
Being insulted by the pop atheist writer John Loftus is, to borrow Denis Healey's famous line, like being savaged by a dead sheep. It is hard to imagine that a human being could be more devoid of argumentative or polemical skill. Commenting on my recent First Things exchange with atheist philosopher Keith Parsons, Loftus expresses bafflement at Parsons' preference for the Old Atheism over the New Atheism. Unable to see any good reason for it, Loftus slyly concludes: "Keith Parsons is just old. That explains why he favors the Old Atheism." He also suggests that Parsons simply likes the attention Christians give him.
Well, as longtime readers of this blog will recall from his sometimes bizarre combox antics, Loftus certainly knows well the reek of attention-seeking desperation. Sadly, being John Loftus, he tends to misidentify its source.
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Friday, April 1, 2016
A note on falsification
Antony Flew's famous 1950 article "Theology and Falsification" posed what came to be known as the "falsificationist challenge" to theology. A claim is falsifiable when it is empirically testable -- that is to say, when it makes predictions about what will be observed under such-and-such circumstances such that, if the predictions don't pan out, the claim is thereby shown to be false. The idea that a genuinely scientific claim must be falsifiable had already been given currency by Karl Popper. Flew's aim was to apply it to a critique of such theological claims as the thesis that God loves us. No matter what sorts of evil and suffering occur in the world, the theologian does not give up the claim that God loves us. But then, what, in that case, does the claim actually amount to? And why should we accept the claim? Flew's challenge was to get the theologian to specify exactly what would have to happen in order for the theologian to give up the claim that God loves us, or the claim that God exists.
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
So, what are you doing after your funeral?
There is, among contemporary Thomists, a controversy over the metaphysical status of human beings after death. Both sides agree that the human soul is the substantial form of the living human body, both sides agree that the human soul subsists after death, and both sides agree that the body is restored to the soul at the resurrection. But what happens to the human being himself between death and resurrection? Does a human being in some way continue to exist after death? Or does he cease to exist until the resurrection? Which answer do the premises that both sides agreed on support? And which answer did Aquinas himself support?
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Friday, March 18, 2016
Brentano on the mental
What distinguishes the mental from the non-mental? Franz Brentano (1838-1917), in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, famously takes intentionality to be the key. He developed this answer by way of criticism of (what he took to be) the traditional Cartesian criterion. Descartes held that the essence of matter lies in extension and spatial location. Whatever lacks these geometrical features is therefore non-material. Accordingly, it must fall into the second class of substances recognized by Descartes, namely mental substance. As Brentano reads the Cartesian tradition, then, it holds that the essence of the mental is to be unextended and non-spatial.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Oderberg on final causes
Speaking of teleology: David Oderberg's article "Finality Revived: Powers and Intentionality" has just appeared in Synthese. It seems at the moment to be available for free viewing online, so take a look. Readers interested in final causality and its relationship to the current debate in analytic metaphysics about the purported "physical intentionality" of causal powers will definitely find it of interest.
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
Parsons on Coyne
Readers of my recent First Things review of Jerry Coyne's Faith versus Fact might find of interest atheist philosopher Keith Parsons' comments on the review in the Letters pages of the latest issue of First Things. My reply to Keith can also be found there.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Conjuring teleology
At The Philosophers' Magazine online, Massimo Pigliucci discusses teleology and teleonomy. His position has the virtues of being simple and clear. Unfortunately, it also has the vices of being simplistic and wrong. His remarks can be summarized fairly briefly. Explaining what is wrong with them takes a little more doing.
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Putting nature on the rack
What was it that distinguished the modern scientific method inaugurated by Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, and Co. from the science of the medievals? One common answer is that the moderns required empirical evidence, whereas the medievals contented themselves with appeals to the authority of Aristotle. The famous story about Galileo's Scholastic critics' refusing to look through his telescope is supposed to illustrate this difference in attitudes.
The problem with this answer, of course, is that it is false. For one thing, the telescope story is (like so many other things everyone "knows" about the Scholastics and about the Galileo affair) a legend. For another, part of the reason Galileo's position was resisted was precisely because there were a number of respects in which it appeared to conflict with the empirical evidence. (For example, the Copernican theory predicted that Venus should sometimes appear six times larger than it does at other times, but at first the empirical evidence seemed not to confirm this, until telescopes were developed which could detect the difference; the predicted stellar parallax did not receive empirical confirmation for a long time; and so forth.)
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Scott Ryan RIP
Longtime readers who frequent the comboxes of this blog will be familiar with Scott Ryan, who for many years was a regular commenter here. He was also a moderator and regular commenter at the Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion Forum. I was very sorry to learn that Scott died last week, apparently of a burst stomach ulcer. I did not know Scott personally, but I always greatly valued his contributions to combox discussions, which consistently manifested Scott's high intelligence, breadth of knowledge, sense of humor, clarity of expression, and charity toward others. The exchanges on this blog have been of a consistently high quality in large part because of Scott's presence. (My recent book Neo-Scholastic Essays was dedicated to my readers. Scott had become such a presence in the comboxes that when I wrote that dedication, and when I have thought about it in the months since, Scott's would be the first name and face that would come to my mind.)
Recently Scott began the process of converting to Catholicism. While reading through some of his recent posts at the Forum the other day, I came across this exchange. It is especially poignant in light of Scott's death, and that, together with the beauty, simplicity, and tranquility of the sentiments Scott expressed, brought tears to my eyes.
Many readers have been making their feelings about Scott known in the combox of an earlier post. It is clear that they will miss him as much as I will. Our prayers are with you Scott, and with your family. RIP.
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KILLEEN (March 13, 2013)-Terry Grant Scott, 17, of Killeen, was named in a two-count indictment Wednesday charging murder with a deadly weapon and attempted murder in a shooting in January in the parking lot of a local convenience store that left a Fort Hood soldier dead and two others critically injured.
The victims were shot at around 5:30 p.m. Jan. 2 as they sat in a maroon SUV in the parking lot of the Star Mart store at 1704 Old FM 440 Rd. in Killeen.
The gunman fled south on Old FM 440 in the Lincoln Town Car, police said.
Spc. Austin James Sampson, 25, of Bliss, N.Y., was flown to Scott & White Hospital in Temple where he died on Jan. 5.
He joined the Army in July 2006 and deployed to Iraq from November 2007 to January 2009 and from August 2010 to August 2011.
He had been assigned to Fort Hood's Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, since February 2010.
The other two men were taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.
The two shooting survivors, Cory Lee Chovan and Mark Olvera, identified Scott from a photo lineup, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Scott remains in the Bell County Jail in lieu of $1 million bond.


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5. Nintendo Cartridges Warm From The Machine
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9. Inside The Freezers At The Grocery Store
10. Rubber Cement
11. My Little Pony
12. Linoleum
13. Mothball
14. Sharpies/Permanent Markers
15. Chlorine
16. Dryer Sheets
17. Campfire
18. Fresh Cut Grass
19. Brand New Shoes
20. Play-Doh
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Consider the guy-oriented Break (which last week was reported to be merging with Alloy Digital). Edelman found that Break.com loads invisibly through a variety of complex methods. In one instance, a company called Ptp22 redirects Break traffic through a variety of middlemen before it is loaded invisibly via iframe. (The list of go-betweens includes Marketwithmogul and TooShocking.)
Another company, Deplayer, conducts the same kind of operation. Adweek was unable to find contact information for the company.
Analytics firm SimilarWeb would seem to provide more supporting evidence. Some 25 percent of Break's traffic comes via referrals, much of it from the adult category. The top referring site isn't Facebook or Twitter but a firm called ClickSure, which sells Web traffic. In Edelman's opinion, Break knows it's buying such traffic. "But [this traffic doesn't deliver actual] users who can see the site or any ads on the site. But there are indeed ads on the landing page. I saw ads for AT&T," he says.
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Beyond direct publishers with invisible traffic, what about the assessment from Moxie's Silverberg that the Facebooks, Yahoos and AOLs of the world could be touched by the questionable traffic issue?
In Facebook's case, the company has wrestled with scammers creating fake profiles and selling artificial likes. It's a problem that's mostly under control, according to a Facebook spokesperson: "As part of our ongoing site integrity efforts, we have recently updated our automated systems to remove 'likes' on pages that may have been gained by means that violate Facebook's terms. On average, less than 1 percent of likes on any given page will be removed."
Facebook is generally a closed environment. But it's the wide-open, murky world of ad networks, ad exchanges and real-time bidding that experts say is rife with fraudulent activity. That's because clients continue to look for huge quarterly CPM decreases and expect the Web to deliver cheap, efficient results. Meanwhile, agencies benefit from marking up ad inventory through their trading desks. Every vendor is plugged into every other vendor and platform, and sellers are incented to drive the most clicks at the cheapest rates possible. Thus, this ecosystem is practically begging for scammers.
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Magnezone bashed into the police office, dropping Ethereal onto the floor, releasing the Thunder Waves which bound her.
"Sir, that's not too safe, don't you feel?" the receptionist Audino asked.
"NO," he droned. "IT'S PERFECTLY…SAFE…"
His voice made a swift diminuendo before it disappeared to nothing. He dipped his head, then flung his police beret to the ground.
"Erm…sir? That's a sign of…"
Ethereal gasped. "No! Don't! I'm sorry, please don't resign!"
Magnezone sighed. "IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT."
"How isn't this my fault?!" Ethereal cried out, tears already flooding out of her eyes.
"WHOA, DON'T CRY, DON'T CRY…" Magnezone floated over, hovering over Ethereal and covering her with one of his magnets.
Ethereal leaned her head on the magnet, pouring her compassion on it. "Please don't resign, I'll help you get whatever you lost back!"
"And it's all my fault! I'm sorry for threatening you at HP-point! I'm sorry for freezing you to the ground! I'm-"
"HUSH, GIRL," he buzzed calmly, patting Ethereal on her back. "YOU KNOW, I WISH EVERY CON WERE LIKE YOU."
Ethereal stopped sobbing. She looked at Magnezone with teary eyes.
"Just today, I had a Dusclops outside my house."
Ethereal chuckled weakly, but it was so forced that she ended up feeling more melancholic than happy.
Ethereal shook her head.
"I…try to help them…recover…sometimes," Ethereal stuttered, almost in embarrassment.
Ethereal made a faint giggle, then quickly returned to her depressed state.
Ethereal paused, then shook her head.
"…Thank you, Officer."
Magnezone went out of the office, leaving the Audino slightly dumbfounded.
"Well, that was abrupt," he said. He looked down at Ethereal. "Erm…I'll call in Crimson."
"You don't need to," a voice echoed through the corridors. It was Crimson, the Typhlosion.
"Inspector!" the Audino exclaimed. "Did you see all of that?"
"Yep! I sure did!" Crimson said, bouncing up and down. "Cameras exist!"
He was a rather hyperactive one. Some wondered how he rose up the ranks until he was one rank below the Chief, but Ethereal knew that he was so good with interrogations that he could squeeze out truths from lies.
He turned over to Ethereal. "So, Ethy. Welcome back to our amazing police office! How long has it been? Five years?"
Ethereal kept quiet.
"Dang, something on?"
"I'll confess everything later. Just take me inside first, if you'd please."
"Not very flirty today, are you?"
"Whoa, a one-word answer. That's…not you." Crimson said, voice dipping. "Come on in."
Suddenly, a Luxray bashed through the front door, denting it slightly.
"Alright!" he said, panting. "How do I turn myself in?"
"Just sit down and relax, I'll get you peeps some water."
"I'm not thirsty, it's okay," Ethereal said.
Frenzy looked at Ethereal, sticking out his tongue and panting. He had just been through a run.
"…Actually, just get some water. Thanks, sugar."
Crimson smiled and walked away.
As the door of the interrogation room slammed shut, there was an awkward moment of silence. The two convicts stared at each other from time to time, but they never initiated a conversation. After about five minutes, it became clear that Crimson wasn't going to appear very soon.
"So, how did you end up in here?" Frenzy asked. His low-pitched voice echoed in the room.
"Long story," Ethereal said, before her voice faded away and a tear formed at her eyes. She swiftly swiped it away. "Sorry, it's not the nicest of stories."
"It's good," Frenzy said. "I won't rub it into you."
There was another moment of silence.
Ethereal sighed. She was going to have to let it out on somebody.
"Hey, you ever lost a…well, a lover before?"
"I'm not the relationship kind of guy."
"Well," Ethereal said. "I'm okay with that. I guess I won't…involve you in any of this…"
Her voice softened until it was a mere squeak.
"I really wish that I could help…but I really can't give any relationship advice," Frenzy mumbled.
"It's okay, furball. It's okay."
Suddenly, a Volcarona slammed the door open. She waltzed into the room, wings fluttering at such a speed that the noise generated was slightly annoying.
"I'm taking over Crimson here," she said. Her voice was scratchy and sounded malicious in itself. "So there's no more rainbows and sunshine for all of you."
Ethereal got up from her chair. "Um…sorry…" she looked on the Volcarona's police beret, affirming her rank. "…Inspector," she said, punctuating the word clearly, then continued, "But could you bring Crimson back? It's painful trying to explain the entire story again…"
"Shut up, crybaby! Get back to your seat!"
Ethereal's eyes widened, but she listened to the command and did as she was told. Frenzy, however, wasn't too happy with Volcarona's display.
"Hey, this gal over here is just feeling a little vulnerable now, got a problem with that?!" he sprung out of his seat and shouted at Volcarona.
Volcarona was shocked. "Don't get aggressive against me!"
"I haven't even gotten aggressive yet," Frenzy grinned, then roared.
Ethereal grabbed Frenzy. "No, furball, don't do this…"
Volcarona laughed loudly; how she did it was kinda mystical, since she didn't have a mouth. Speaking was already something awkward, but laughing? That was really off-the-top.
"I bet you don't even know the name of that girl, right?" she taunted.
"Well!" Frenzy was about to come up with a witty response, but he really didn't know her name.
"Ethereal," Ethereal said.
"Frenzy here, sup. Beautiful name you've got there."
Ethereal made a faint smile.
"Okay, you've had your reunion! Perfect! Now tell me why you're here in the police office right now!" Volcarona shouted.
"Could we all sit down first? We can't talk when we're all ready to fight and stuff…"
Volcarona was fuming mad now. Ethereal was now giggling, tears around her eyes starting to evaporate, and on the verge of exploding into laughter.
"Fiery Dance!"
Volcarona cloaked itself in fire, and the flames spun around her, projecting outwards. In any other place, this would have melted metal. Thankfully, the interrogation room was already proofed against the seventeen elements.
"Whoa! Don't attack us!" Frenzy shouted.
"Hang on, sugar," Ethereal said, springing out of her seat. "I've got this one."
She jumped in front of Frenzy, absorbing the impact of the Fiery Dance. Frenzy was stunned; he was being protected from a Fire-typed move by an Ice-type. Volcarona was pretty ticked off too, for the same reason.
"How did you do that?" Frenzy asked.
"Eh, I'm fireproof. Curses from Chandelures. Very complicated stuff. Can't explain it."
"Wow, that just makes you so much more beautiful."
Ethereal squealed. She swished around a hundred and eighty degrees, showing off, taking a glimpse at Frenzy's stunned face in the meantime.
"I like you already," she commented. There was a now a seductive smile on her face.
Meanwhile, Volcarona was charging up from another attack. Their conversation had given her the time to finish the charging, and he released the attack, ending the conversation abruptly.
"Bug Buzz!"
Volcarona emitted a high-pitched, painful cry, reminding Frenzy of someone who changed his life.
Ethereal's attack came more slowly; she started by releasing a blast of cold air around her, freezing the moisture in the air and creating glimmering shards of pure ice. The frost surrounding her quickly solidified too, forming even more beautiful shards of ice. With one single flick of her head, the shards of ice started dispersing all over, hitting everything possible, except her partner.
The Bug Buzz attack was stopped cold by the shards of ice. Literally.
The other shards of ice suddenly turned themselves towards Volcarona; the degree of perfection of the attack was off the charts. They shot towards Volcarona at an extremely high velocity.
And suddenly, before they hit her, Ethereal stopped the attack. The shards of ice froze under the heat emitted by the flaming bug.
"What?! Why did you stop it?" Frenzy said.
"It's illegal to attack a police officer," she sighed, then looked at Volcarona. "But it's not illegal for a police officer to attack us."
"Yes indeed, crybaby. Bite it and go on."
Volcarona flew out of the room, forgetting to close the door behind her.
Ethereal helped her with that; she closed the door, then walked back to her seat. She looked at Frenzy for a split second, then burst into laughter.
"Hahaha! It's a waste that you're not with more girls, really! You're really good at this!" she said, bowling over with laughter.
Frenzy simply kept his cool, giving Ethereal a grin which let one of his fangs show.
"I'll take that as a compliment," he said, stately.
"Of course it is, tiger! Of course it is!" Ethereal chirped. She had apparently already left Garchomp back in the past. "Gawsh, hope I'm roomed with you."
"We're in a prison, Ethy. They're called 'cells'."
Ethereal bowled over with laughter once again, her remaining tears spilling out of her eyes.
"Oh, we'll have so many great moments in our cell!" she said, still laughing.
Frenzy remained silent, slightly taken aback by that statement.
Ethereal stopped laughing. "Okay, was that a little too much?"
Suddenly, Crimson opened the door of the interrogation room, carrying a tray with a jug of water and some wine glasses on it.
"Sorry I took so long! Got caught up with a Teddiursa who was selling candy! Okay, no questions asked! Carry on!" he said, scratching his head.
He took a glimpse at the two convicts, and saw that Frenzy was bearing a faint smile on his face, and Ethereal had just gone through a fit of laughter. It warmed his heart.
"So, I'm presuming that we can go on with our interrogation now?"
"Yes, Inspector," Frenzy said.
"Eh," Ethereal interjected. "Before this, I just wanna call for a room- or rather, a cell, with Frenzy over here. Hope that's fine."
Frenzy nodded his head in agreement.
"It's good, really!" Crimson said, smiling. "Just be really honest during the interrogation, kay?"
"Oh, I'll confess everything. It'll be so detailed that you could write a story on this."
The two of them confessed every last detail of their last mission.
"Have a good time in prison!"
"Thanks, we will!"
The door was slammed shut, and the guards took the two convicts to their cell. They weren't even chained; Crimson knew that they had no intentions of escaping.
Crimson walked down the corridor, back to his office desk. On the way, he met the Volcarona. She was the only officer in the entire department who was also given the rank of Inspector.
He decided that it was necessary to talk to her.
"Hey, Inspector, may I have a few words with you?" Crimson said, removing all the informality in his normal speaking tone, creating one that sounded more professional.
"Sure," she said, much more politely than the way she talked to the convicts.
"You know Rocky, I saw what you did in the interrogation room. I was standing at the other side of it and looking through the window. I was actually supposed to see if they would do anything suspicious, but I saw something else."
Rocky blushed, possibly at how Crimson articulated her name in his formal tone; it sounded unnatural. "Forgive me for that, Crimson. They pushed my buttons a little."
"If I remember correctly, you attacked them. Ethereal mentioned a law about us being allowed to attack the convicts, and how it can't happen vice versa. It stands, but it shouldn't be abused."
Rocky's temper flared. "Are you saying that I'm abusing the law?!"
Crimson kept quiet, allowing her to cool down.
She eventually did. "Sorry for that."
"Look, you're a great officer. I just think that you could stick with your field duties. You're much better at those."
"You know really well that the rank of Chief can only be obtained by the lazy Slakoths who stay indoors all the time, right?"
Ouch. That hurt.
"Let's try to remain formal, shall we?"
"Why bother? There's no one listening, right?!"
"Office code of conduct. Let's try to follow it."
Rocky glared at Crimson. Crimson simply remained rooted to his spot, with an emotionless expression.
"You're really stuck-up, know that?"
"I get that a lot, yes."
He didn't really get it a lot. In fact, it was the first time someone called him "stuck-up", since he was always modest and ready to get down to the lower-ranked officers' level. Sometimes, he even tried to scrap his superiority when with the convicts.
"Well, it'll really suck if someone who can't take their job seriously ends up a Chief, right?"
"Yep. So true."
Volcarona strutted off, calling her party and getting ready for more field duties.
Crimson sighed. Sometimes, he wished that he could fight back. He felt a little tinge of anger burning inside him, but he swallowed it down.
"Hey, Inspector!"
Crimson turned around, and saw his secretary. It was a Skiploom, and her name was Noisy. Yes, Noisy. She was one of those ex-convicts who started serving for the law after their jail term. Noisy had worked with Crimson for about five years already; her first case, ironically, was when Ethereal got arrested for the first time.
She supposedly got her name by her annoying methods of assault. She'd plant Leech Seeds on a person and hide behind Substitutes until the foes were drained of all their energy. It was a merciless way to eliminate a foe, and some of them complained that it was annoying, therefore the name. She wasn't a very noisy poke, though.
"Afternoon, Noisy," he said, saluting.
"Afternoon, Inspector," Noisy said, saluting in response to Crimson.
"What are you doing here?"
Noisy sighed.
"Could we get out of this station for a while? I want to bring up some…issues."
"Right, we shall, then."
It was not until they stepped out of the facility when Noisy's true personality was shown.
"Right, finally! FINALLY!!"
"Yep, finally indeed!"
Noisy stopped shouting as she saw the smile return to Crimson's face.
"Come, let's get a drink or something."
Crimson thought about it for a second. A drink could be a great mistake.
"Nah, let's just talk over here. I need to go finish that interrogation transcript."
"Well, I've done it already!" Noisy said, making a jump which left her suspended in air. "Don't worry about that part!"
Crimson grinned. "Wow, you're the best, Noisy."
"Right, here's your Hyper Potion and Casteliacone!"
"Thanks, Purple Guy!"
Noisy took her Casteliacone with two hands, smiling at the really friendly Salamence. Crimson grabbed the glass of Hyper Potion.
The owner of this humble café was a Salamence who used to be in the police force. He rose to a rather high rank, before he decided that there was no place for the officers to chill out around the office. He therefore created a solution to that, and was earning so much more money that some of the policemen wished that they had become Purple Guy's staff when they had a chance.
Crimson slid the glass over to Noisy. "Want some?"
"No, it's okay," Noisy replied. "I'm going to try to cut down on the alcohol."
She took a huge bite of the Casteliacone as Crimson took his glass back and sipped from it.
"Wonder why they call it a 'Casteliacone'," the Skiploom said, out of complete randomness. "Maybe it's a cone from some weird city called Castelia or something."
Crimson was too busy drinking from his glass. Noisy sighed.
"Anyway, we didn't come here to talk about food."
Crimson put down his glass. "Yeah?"
"It's about…"
Noisy nodded.
"There's nothing wrong with her," Crimson said, taking another sip from his glass.
"What are you talking about? She insulted you quite a few times there, don't you know?"
"Eh, doesn't hurt me too much."
Noisy raised an eyebrow.
"Are you drunk?"
"Not yet."
She sighed again.
"I'm just worried that she ends up Chief. I'd never be able to stay in the force if there's some horrible leader barking orders at me. I'd probably just quit or something."
Crimson put down his glass.
"Your point being?"
"You can't let Rocky be the Chief! It'll mark the end of the force!"
Crimson laughed. "You're speculating a lot, and that's normally not such a good thing!" he said with a little quiver in his voice, signalling that he was a little drunk already.
"Someday, you should teach her a lesson!"
"Nah, that day's never coming!" Crimson said, taking another sip from his glass.
"I mean, you never thought of fighting back? That's just a little…I don't know."
Crimson gulped down the entire glass of Hyper Potion. His head was now swaying in a circle.
He raised one of his hands, and muttered, "Patience."
Immediately after saying that, his head slammed onto the bar table.
Noisy sighed. "Purple! I need your help here!"
Purple Guy walked over to Noisy and collected Crimson's glass. He chuckled at the sight of Crimson, and his image slightly resembled one of those stereotypical evil villains.
"I see that my buddy has tipped over again."
"Yes, he has! Do you have one of those quick detoxifiers or whatever-you-call-those?"
Purple Guy winked. "I'm right at it."
He reached down and took out a bottle of Full Heal. Normally, these would be mixed with a Hyper Potion to remove the high alcohol content in the Hyper Potion, but on their own, they were able to snap a drunken poke out of his trance really quickly.
"Heh, Noisy, you know something about Crimson?" he asked as he opened the cap of the bottle.
"I guess I should know enough about him to guess what you're talking about. You two were partners once, right?"
The Salamence smiled. "More than that, actually." He poured the Full Heal into a wine glass, and continued, "He was so much more than a partner."
Noisy was visibly confused. "Wait, explain that for me, would you?"
"Heh, he always had this habit of swallowing his anger, then finding a way to dispel it. He never released his anger on anyone." Purple Guy dropped some ice cubes into the glass, and gave it a swirl. "I, however, had this habit of lunging out at anyone who ticked me off. I guess I was a little bit of a disgrace to him."
He served the glass of Full Heal.
"But yeah, after a while of being his partner, I eventually picked up his ways, and I guess that's why I make friends much more easily now, eh?"
Noisy laughed. "I can see that; you're a bartender now! You must have, what, a hundred girls?"
The Salamence was stuck frozen to the spot, hand still clutching on the glass of Full Heal.
"Erm…ignore what I said," Noisy said.
"Yeah…sometimes I wondered why I wasn't chosen by Arceus to wield a Choice item. Remember the time where me and Crimson were interrogating that Glaceon-girl?"
"Ethereal? Yeah, she's back in prison."
Purple Guy's eyes widened. "Oh, a shame. She was one of the nicest convicts I ever met. She was also stunningly be-"
He quickly shook any weird thoughts off.
"Anyway, that girl was a Choicer. I loved to ask myself why she was chosen instead of me; and then I realised that the Choice items weren't just weapons made for destruction."
Noisy nodded her head in strong approval.
"You know the tale behind Choice, right?"
Noisy shook her head.
"Well, Arceus chooses certain pokes to wield Choice Items. But he only chooses them based on certain qualities which they possess. And the Choicers are destined to inspire others, rather than cause destruction with their extra power."
"Inspire?" Noisy asked. That was something new.
"Yep, inspire. And I think Crimson's the prime example of a strong source of positive influence," he said, slotting a slice of lemon to the glass of Full Heal as a garnish.
"And the Choice Specs which Crimson treasures so much," he added, "They represent patience."
Noisy nodded her head, keeping silent as she fed the Full Heal into Crimson's mouth. He slowly came to his senses.
"You got drunk. Very drunk. Better get some sleep, pal," Purple Guy said.
"Right…" Crimson said wearily. "See you tomorrow, Noisy. Thanks for the drink, Purple!"
"See you too Crimson! Rest well!"
The two of them watched Crimson walk towards the horizon.
"Yep, the Hyper Potion isn't meant to go down one's throat," Purple Guy commented. "Poor soul."
Noisy nodded her head, showing a distinct sad face. Suddenly, an idea struck her. She asked Purple Guy, "Hey, I've got a treasure too…it's not a Choice item, but it's close."
"Well, I'd be happy to give you more children's stories."
She took out a lump of pink ore. Purple Guy recognised it instantly.
"So Purple, what does this represent?" Noisy asked, almost innocently.
Purple Guy sjirachied and gave a rather shallow answer.
"Oh, it just means that you have much more to achieve, and you're finding an excuse to not achieve it."
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To rip somebody's piercing out.
She was talking like she had an energizer bunny shoved up her ass and wouldn't shut up so I jortornatonked her.
ayon kay Jochanaforest ika-13 ng Disyembre, 2009
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Framed Art Print
The fig treeby Julia Bereciartu
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"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet." Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar