General Anthony Zinni on supporting the troops: "Look, there is one statement that bothers me more than anything else. And that's the idea that when the troops are in combat, everybody has to shut up. Imagine if we put troops in combat with a faulty rifle, and that rifle was malfunctioning, and troops were dying as a result."
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The Times: When Even Mathematicians Don't Understand The Math:
"Our brains evolved so that we could survive out there in the jungle. Why in the world should a brain develop for the purpose of being at all good at grasping the true underlying nature of reality?"
Non-paywall copy
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Quick comment: it is seriously bizarre that the President was in Carlisle, PA, where your heroes from this space used to live. It's not a big town.
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