tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post2570156030080955426..comments2023-11-05T05:49:22.093-05:00Comments on The Breda Fallacy: yardstickbredahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00216098318849287384noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-10575256395907423162011-10-05T13:18:53.947-04:002011-10-05T13:18:53.947-04:00I was going to argue that Sagan was famous for the...I was going to argue that Sagan was famous for the right reasons. I wouldn't have a Caravaggio or Kinkade in the house. As for Snooki, I'm looking forward to firearms, and heavy-metal induced deafness. So I will never hear another female Jerseyite!<br /><br />But wanting to preserve my spot in Breda's Posse! I'll hold my tongue!John Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875185117306503147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-59323430404080275622011-10-03T20:58:35.007-04:002011-10-03T20:58:35.007-04:00This old profile of Kinkade is endlessly entertain...This old profile of Kinkade is endlessly entertaining.<br /><br />http://articles.latimes.com/2006/mar/05/business/fi-kinkade5/3Les Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389811940518627023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-54457177643659278452011-10-03T09:56:24.952-04:002011-10-03T09:56:24.952-04:00Late to the thread, but the only one I recognized ...Late to the thread, but the only one I recognized was Sagan. As others pointed out, he was already famous before his series of Sunday Sermons. TV brought him into Pop Culture as his scientific career was fading.<br /><br />The Book of Judith is not in my bible. That would have been the other side of the primary ethnic divide of my childhood. The neighborhood included German Lutherans and Polish Catholics. There had been some intermarriage in my parents generation, which had been scandalous at the time, but the divide was still very much in evidence.fast richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05947715402204312013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-18975467234420957702011-10-02T09:59:28.486-04:002011-10-02T09:59:28.486-04:00LOL, thanks. I believe you can just scroll down fo...LOL, thanks. I believe you can just scroll down for that. Or something.bredahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00216098318849287384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-34535350071801738332011-10-02T01:45:26.056-04:002011-10-02T01:45:26.056-04:00Uhh, could we see the prone rifle pic again?
Lady,...Uhh, could we see the prone rifle pic again?<br />Lady, you are hawt.Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05684179171065794525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-73026169933450729032011-10-01T23:50:55.681-04:002011-10-01T23:50:55.681-04:00Rule #1: Never date a woman called "Judith&qu...Rule #1: Never date a woman called "Judith"<br /><br />Rule #2: ...especially if she's Jewish and <br /><br />Rule #3: ...owns a Henckel set.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09890603015006314420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-16979208726409804882011-10-01T19:08:12.843-04:002011-10-01T19:08:12.843-04:00I'd like to think I got it. Still think it'...I'd like to think I got it. Still think it's <i>perfect</i> meme material, too...Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13746486966764162127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-42007213763756297062011-10-01T14:34:21.971-04:002011-10-01T14:34:21.971-04:00Carl Sagan did not become famous because of televi...Carl Sagan did not become famous because of television alone, he was made a star on television because of his intellect and his mannerisms while sharing his knowledge.<br /><br />Of course knowing who he is does not necessarily make one intelligent but you would think that you would see the point was not so much that knowing Carl Sagan makes you intelligent or part of the solution and knowing that woman, whomever she is, makes you part of the problem. Rather, I would think the point <br />that if you are more familiar with one type more so than the other, it would be more likely you tend to lean a certain way, more towards intelligent and productive pursuits than towards what I am guessing would be some kind of entertainment geared balderdash. Of course, I could be way off track here as I am assuming the woman in the pic, who appears to be a bimbo, is in entertainment.Glenn Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677859688487279914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-30719723022082695002011-09-30T15:25:33.714-04:002011-09-30T15:25:33.714-04:00So no one commented that the Librarian said Carl S...So no one commented that the Librarian said Carl Sagan got famous by being on TV.<br /><br />Puzzling. ;)<br /><br />I did not know either painter BTW. I guessed wrong.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08517703295041407587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-39113138005705401952011-09-30T12:45:31.874-04:002011-09-30T12:45:31.874-04:00Now...if we could just get Snooki to teach physics...Now...if we could just get Snooki to teach physics......Cargosquidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15109858929179841075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-16376368074091294702011-09-30T12:13:53.877-04:002011-09-30T12:13:53.877-04:00@North - I'm certain there are 'e's an...@North - I'm certain there are 'e's and many other things in Snooki. I don't wish any specifics, thank you.<br />And Carl Sagan brought astronomy and astrophysics to the masses.<br />Snooki brought lewd 'entertainment' via schadenfreud.Guffaw in AZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356210589713923042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-69046150107333613122011-09-30T12:12:24.141-04:002011-09-30T12:12:24.141-04:00good lord, some of these comments. Some of you all...good lord, some of these comments. Some of you all will personalize and nitpick ANY post ANYONE writes. Sometimes I do not know why bloggers bother.<br /><br />The Caravaggio/Kinkaid comparison was an EXAMPLE. I could have used literature, music...anything. Sheesh.bredahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00216098318849287384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-67022864953232045832011-09-30T12:06:20.875-04:002011-09-30T12:06:20.875-04:00I find it funny that you would use classic art vs....I find it funny that you would use classic art vs. the T. Kinkaide painting. I dated a costume designer years ago and we spent quite a bit of time hanging out with her theatre/art friends. I highly suspect that any one of them would have easily recognised the classic (and been able to speak about it ad-nausium), but would have drawn a blank on the Kinkaide (since his stuff isn't "high art"). <br /><br />Amongst that group, there were BAs, BFAs, MAs, and even a few MFAs. What we DIDN'T have was a single one of them that were actually PAYING THEIR DAMN STUDENT LOANS! Some in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pay it back? Um... NO... Why would they have to do that? After all, they are bettering the world by making ART!<br /><br />Personally, I think ANY such test would be easily picked appart.<br /><br />sStuart the Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254498595290292223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-24440378559837651402011-09-29T23:00:01.689-04:002011-09-29T23:00:01.689-04:00Weer'd Beard, that's hilarious--I haven...Weer'd Beard, that's hilarious--I haven't laughed spontaneously like that in a LONG time. Thanks!Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06822829608903050895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-67436669642391538722011-09-29T21:09:36.769-04:002011-09-29T21:09:36.769-04:00(1) I don't expect kids to know who Carl Sagan...(1) I don't expect kids to know who Carl Sagan is. His scientific breakthroughs were made in the 60s. By the 80s and 90s, he was just the "billions and billions" guy. And he's been dead for 15 years.<br /><br />(2) It's nice to say that kids should be able to think for themselves. But ultimately you still need to know things because you need information to feed into that reasoning process. Otherwise you're at the mercy of whomever gives you data and you put garbage in and get garbage out.Jeff the Baptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13978930508610389584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-18111149616207770502011-09-29T20:53:14.397-04:002011-09-29T20:53:14.397-04:00It isn't a problem that people don't know ...It isn't a problem that people don't know who Sagan was, who Caravaggio was. The problem is that people are not taught to think for themselves. Or at all.<br /><br />Forget about the lack of science education. (Uncertainty principle anyone? Calculus? Chemistry? How about Geography? - could you find Israel on a map?)<br /><br />So when something like Fukashima Diaichii comes along, people in Chicago think it is a good idea to take iodine tablets. They don't know why, they just heard that it might "save them" from the dangers of radiation - or Godzilla or whatever.<br /><br />Herds of sheep. Following whatever the herds are following.Zendo Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00094772654735415974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-59061355171392720462011-09-29T18:32:40.597-04:002011-09-29T18:32:40.597-04:00We have to be careful about what point in time we ...We have to be careful about what point in time we start blaming the boomers. I mean, they weren't able to vote until 1967 at the earliest, and they didn't really hit the big time in terms of births until about 1953, so the bulk of them couldn't vote until the constitution was amended setting the voting age back to 18, in 1972, and I do mean setting back.<br />Much of the muddle-headed leftist $4!+ laws in the 60s were passed by the so-called "Greatest Generation", who didn't understand that war was different from peace just as hypothermia is different from heat exhaustion and the prescriptions are necessarily different.<br /><br />Instinct -- So, Caravaggio was the Thomas Kinkade of his generation?Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-56671906420964959542011-09-29T17:43:06.685-04:002011-09-29T17:43:06.685-04:00Interesting set of comparisons, and interesting co...Interesting set of comparisons, and interesting comments too :-)Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-6983481510657971422011-09-29T16:43:51.070-04:002011-09-29T16:43:51.070-04:00I don't know anything about paintings, and I c...I don't know anything about paintings, and I could not care less. I'm more interested in making my own (practical, wearable) art in the form of gorgeous crocheted stuff.Jeanne Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12684695145962482139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-60325923101081970202011-09-29T16:35:01.882-04:002011-09-29T16:35:01.882-04:00You know? I kinda liked Carl, despite flaws.
I th...You know? I kinda liked Carl, despite flaws.<br /><br />I think, really, in an effort to make the graphic as simple as possible, but no simpler, it could be just a picture of the "actress" and the words: You're what is wrong.<br /><br />:-DNorthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12778737553770514684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-73148603419927161392011-09-29T16:21:32.353-04:002011-09-29T16:21:32.353-04:00I only figured out it was Sagan once I realized th...I only figured out it was Sagan once I realized that the background was the "cosmos".<br /><br />But seriously, we should caption back these people with "If you are sending around elitist portraits comparing your cultural references in an attempt to denigrate others, you are what is wrong with this world. Oh, and you're pathetic too!"Broken Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562569871940946226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-46896296822314957312011-09-29T15:23:45.707-04:002011-09-29T15:23:45.707-04:00Worst part about Kinkade is that he actually was a...Worst part about Kinkade is that he actually was a decent artist. From what my wife was told, he was in a group of very talented artist and hated the fact that he wasn't the star student.<br /><br />Here's an example of some of his early stuff that DOESN'T look like technicolor vomit<br /><br />http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/06/thomas-kinkadersquos-cottage-fantasyinstincthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891346937398300935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-90270460079771827082011-09-29T15:06:53.451-04:002011-09-29T15:06:53.451-04:00Had to look up both artist and title.
But then ...Had to look up both artist and title. <br /><br />But then I always get the dangerous Jewish chicks mixed up.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414687981098467556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-74424593643393204062011-09-29T14:36:10.966-04:002011-09-29T14:36:10.966-04:00sorry, I never took art history in college or high...sorry, I never took art history in college or high school....Mike W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03425962910696301026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32278169577563552.post-52282055234157834002011-09-29T14:25:05.107-04:002011-09-29T14:25:05.107-04:00The classic painting I honestly don't know. S...The classic painting I honestly don't know. Subject, I'm going to guess is John the Baptist loosing his head.<br /><br />Thomas Kinkaide, of course. I always picture ninjas or Nazis in his pictures. Or something like this: http://www.chinmusik.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ThomasKinkade.jpglee n. fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01652025469454858807noreply@blogger.com