Some dumb things we at CLC say and do (but, still always learn from):

Course Descriptions for Personal/Fitness/Leisure Courses

Continuing-Special Interest (CINT)
Subj CatNo Course Title Units   
CINT 10 Look Your Best for Far Less 0 units  
Attention women who work inside or outside the home. Learn the steps to look good everyday. Wardrobe Assessment: arrange clothing into mix and match capsules that save time and money. Camouflage figure challenges; look slimmer, taller, and better proportioned in styles that flatter your figure. Closet Purge: reorganize; dispose of dead wood and maximize limited space. Set up a "user-friendly" closet so you spend less time finding the right thing to wear. Right Fit: find how to identify the right fitting clothes that look better and last longer. Accessories: make sure your accessories complement rather than clash or overwhelm you.

Look at the course title.  Look at the course description.  Where's the "less"?

I though I would have fun (and I did) bringing the old technology called hyper-texting to a rather buzz-wordy so-and-so blah-dee-bla course description.  The add-ons make the course description "less" for women, and a little more for men, too.  I was going for a balance in this project.  Geeks and nerds were not left behind!

Other links of special interest have been added for further interest.  Notice the lighter colored words as opposed to the yellower colored words in the above description.  Hover your mouse pointer over them, then click.  Have fun.

 

ONE SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL on May 26th, 2006 by Dan Prowse, Jr.  (Don't shoot me, Clint!)

The names were changed to obfuscate those who, although they may know how to pronounce Latin, others certainly do not know its proper usage nor spelling [or do they?]:

" Frankly [sir or madam], I simply don't believe you. Your series of adhominen attacks would not seem to me to be that productive."

[Mr. One who no speaky the Latin very well]

Aside from the spelling of ad hominem, the use of this epithet is in itself the best definition and most classic use of ad hominem.  Because of this, I would be making moot to bring in the examples called out by the accused referred.  In addition, one could surmise that the second sentence quoted above is not, but a fragment.  Perhaps a bit of the Canadian humor applied here would be best, restated, as in: "Liar !... Your series of adhominen attacks would not seem to me to be that productive...if we were seeming to be seemingly productive...". 

Just think of Mike Myers in "Austin Powers"  "ALLOW MYSELF TO INTRODUCE....MY SELF..."; as after all, it can all depend on "...what your definition of is is.".

To the accuser or accused: You are "mature" enough, so why does not one of you make like George W., and ask the other "Can I buy you dinner?", as our President recently asked of Mr. Tony Blair after a surprisingly revealing press conference today?

On my other hand:  Perhaps this is just a smoke screen.  All of it.  The back and forth bickering, or what could amount to bickering.  I posit that perhaps, if there are too many unilateral votes in approval of all things considered and wished for, then maybe there is a reason one would want to examine "the list".

Should I run for a position?  I just might.  It's probably in my blood, as my Dad held similar position for most of his life:  I scare myself to think of doing this - more than it might scare you of me actually doing!  Yet, I keep my "hat" on while several incumbents have gone out of their way to nod approval and shake my hand for what I have been doing - not just this.

BOO!

Now, if I had a third hand (obviating the need for a third arm hopefully); on my third I might go so far to say that perhaps the use of ad hominem was correctly applied here and therefore is the best way to show its harmful affects - and this case, I would applaud!  More than likely, this is the case - but I only have 2 arms, and I'm damned grateful to have them.

Fallacy: Ad Hominem

Description of Ad Hominem

Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."

An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of "argument" has the following form:

     

  1. Person A makes claim X.
  2. Person B makes an attack on person A.
  3. Therefore A's claim is false.

The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).

Example of Ad Hominem

     

  1. Bill: "I believe that abortion is morally wrong."
    Dave: "Of course you would say that, you're a priest."
    Bill: "What about the arguments I gave to support my position?"
    Dave: "Those don't count. Like I said, you're a priest, so you have to say that abortion is wrong. Further, you are just a lackey to the Pope, so I can't believe what you say."

And anither thing;

This was sent All Distro a while back, and now I remember why I do not have to care about absolutely everything when I see drivel like this:

" Career and Placement Services would like for you to spread the word about April being Career Development Month.  We have planned career workshops, a career panelist, a mini job fair, a small business fair, and a etiquette dinner for students, staff, job seekers and faculty. Human Resources Representatives from various compaines will be here to give you a wealth of information on various job search techniques to "Get that Job!"  So delay get the word out.


This is the hiring season and we want ALL to be prepared. "

I did delay the word out, and I look forward to meeting with reps of the compaines!

 

Truly dumb...

Today, Tuesday, October 09, 2007, we received an email informing us of a seminar class that purports to teach us how to identify bunk - or Bullshit, as Penn Gillette would want us to say.

Apparently, we need this course, as another email informing us of the cancellation of a school-wide battery recycling program, and in that, partly, telling us to just throw away any alkaline batteries, as THEY ARE NOT RECYCLABLE.

True enough.  No Recycling Center will take them.  But, electronics labs and students will.

This, I thought was the real purpose behind the original campaign, since I have knowledge that, outside of cold fusion reaction, will save the modern world as we care to know it!

Alkaline batts, as they may not be recyclable, are by no means NON-RECHARGEABLE.

And, to prove, non-adventurous consumers click this.  Great thinkers, click this.

And, now learn (actual samples dug up from the original email ! ):

1.  Alkaline batteries are not recyclable.  Throw them in the trash. (We now know this is wrong, right?)
 
2.  Lithium and nickel cadmium batteries will be accepted at any Ace Hardware or Radio Shack store.  Both stores send them out when they get a certain amount. Make sure that you tape both ends of each battery with black [actually, it must be black - no other color is acceptable] electrical tape before taking them to either one of these stores.  They will not accept them if the ends are not taped.
 
3.  Lead acid batteries (such as car batteries) will be accepted at any automotive center that sells batteries.
 
**** If you are not sure what category battery you use, look on the battery itself.  It should be labeled. ****

 

And, now it's time for a cigarette - if I smoked - because I am truly satisfied.

MORE DUMB TO COME!