The IC split over China’s Lop Nor test site, too. David Sanger details the debate over signs of possible North Korea nuclear test preparations. The key graf casts doubt on his earlier report North Korea had erected a “grandstand”: Last week, three sources in different parts of the United States government told The New York …
Hay Adams @ 6:30 Tonight …
I am meeting some friends for drinks tonight (Thursday) at Off The Record, the hotel bar in the Hay-Adams (One Lafayette Square, 16th & H NW) around 6:30. Blog readers are welcome. I promise to minimize the cock jokes.
Baker Spring: The Great Sophist of All Sophists
P1. Hot dogs are better than nothing P2. Nothing is better than steak. C. Therefore, hot dogs are better than steak. Ah, the fallacy of equivocation. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it thus: The fallacy which is committed when a term has different senses in the different members of a syllogism. 1605 BACON Adv. Learn. …
Arms Control Gurus vs. State Department
ACA Executive Director Daryl Kimball and ACA Research Director Wade Boese respond to State Department spokesman Richard Boucher’s dismissal of an ACA report by Sidney Drell and James Goodby regarding U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces. Asked about Drell and Goodby’s conclusion that the US can further reduce its nuclear weapons stockpile, Boucher replied: I know the …
