Thomas Sowell's Random Thoughts

[MARIO]

Random thoughts
Thomas Sowell

March 29, 2005


Random thoughts on the passing scene:

Nolan Ryan's baseball career was so long that he struck out seven guys whose fathers he had also struck out. (Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonds, for example.)



Why do some people use a fancy mathematical term like "parameters" when all that they really mean is boundaries?

Teresa Heinz Kerry's latest loony statement -- that pro-Bush hackers could have gotten into the electronic voting machines during last year's election -- gave me my first misgivings about having criticized her. She may not be playing with a full deck.

This must be the golden age of euphemisms. When people deliberately violate our laws by crossing our borders illegally, they are called "undocumented workers." When people steal copyrighted material and exchange it among themselves, it is called "file swapping" instead of fencing stolen goods.

If people who commit sex crimes against children are so dangerous that they have to be registered for life after serving their sentences, why are they let out of prison in the first place?

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[Remey688]

have always been an inspiration to me from the first time I read a by-line of his. However, his reference to parameters as boundries is not mathematically correct. The term has both a more hollistic mathematical meaning as well as a a specific examination of a curve within limits, i.e the definition Dr Sowell choose to use in his article.

[MARIO]

Remey688 said:

have always been an inspiration to me from the first time I read a by-line of his. However, his reference to parameters as boundries is not mathematically correct. The term has both a more hollistic mathematical meaning as well as a a specific examination of a curve within limits, i.e the definition Dr Sowell choose to use in his article.

Haha, Remey, Mr. Sowell's mistake not withstanding, he is still one of the most brilliant men writing about politics today.

Take care.

[101ABN]

My personal favorite:

"I do not like to see the future mothers of America becoming soldiers. There are plenty of men who are capable of becoming soldiers and who are not capable of becoming mothers."