November JFP

The November JFP is out, and apparently it’s worse than the unemployment statistics from today.

Moms Against Climate Change

Daily Diligence

The Daily Show has been on a bender recently. Great stuff. There’s a must-watch interview with Al Gore, in which Jon Stewart I think nicely reflects the perspective of the critical urban progressive — a view that is all too often left off the environmentalist platter. You can watch that episode, in its entirety, unedited and uncut, in Part I and Part II.

More impressively, they offer this great parody of Glenn Beckian logic, which is apparently so twisted that Jon Stewart can’t even take himself seriously. Fantastic stuff.

Question of the day: why do non-watchers of the Daily Show, like my mother, invariably refer to the host of the show as “Jon Daily”? I can’t believe that anybody ever referred to Johnny Carson as “Johnny Tonight.”

What Philosophy Deals With

Roger has an interesting guest post by Mike Hulme, author of Why We Disagree About Climate Change. You should read the whole post here, but there’s a particular observation that gets my goat:

Grainger claimed that ‘philosophy deals with matters that are not capable of scientific proof’.

It is, of course, true that philosophy deals with matters that are not capable of scientific proof. But that shouldn’t be taken to mean that philosophy is all and only ever about belief. Mathematics also deals with matters that are not capable of scientific proof; and mathematics is not about belief. I’ll say more in a later post. For now, chew on that.