La Rubujo

Sparky gets to the point more sharply than usual: http://action.credomobile.com/comics/2008/01/the_adventures_of_conventional.html

Here John King gives us a great example of what I call ‘speech-bursting’: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/greenwaldsalon/118047.html.

By ‘speech-bursting’ I mean a process consisting of:

• A verbal or other trigger that is ‘symbolic’ to the speech-burster


• The ‘meaning’ or ‘meanings’ of the trigger to the speech-burster (neural processes)


• Neuro-endocrine activity; a flood of hormones; etc.


• The sufferer bursts into speech (oftentimes saying little with many words)

I am sure we all are familiar with our own sufferings. The silver lining to this cloud is that by recognizing our own speech-bursting we can gauge our own progress towards the desirable ‘scientific attitude’, in which speech becomes secondary to observation and is under our personal control (not hair-triggered).

See http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/1/16/17159/6915

Barney Frank notices that Obama has the attitude of a young man who thinks he can push his elders out of the way and come at old, difficult problems directly, using nothing but his youthful fancy: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/1/16/175740/599