Tom Morris: 2007-09-07

2007.09.07

An amazing day! 2007-09-07T16:04:57Z

After Conor O'Neill brought it up on Jaiku, I flicked on Sky News to see what whas going on.

The McCann media circus is still going. Flashed in front of my eyes is "breaking news". The reported exlaims that it is "an amazing day" over in Portugal.

It sure is amazing if you are trying to fill airtime and column inches.

How many gallons of outrage are going to be slathered over the front-page of the Maddy Express tomorrow?

Of course, the substance of the story was that it was a a big "shock", it was "stunning", and that various people thought that it was "ludicrous". Completely evidence-free, of course. Lack of substance is never a barrier to news coverage.

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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