Quote from piezoe:
<font color="009900">On the Possibility, Indeed the Probability, that Aliens from Another Universe, Have Conquered Time Travel, Visited Planet Earth, and Injected Government Agents with a Serum that Raises their Political Ambition to Levels Hitherto Unknown</font color="009900">
There are those who's inclination is to see conspiracy in government actions. All that conspiracy requires is that two or more persons work together to carry out an illegal act. So conspiracy, by its definition in law, surely must be fairly common.
I believe in Ockham's razor however. So I will naturally gravitate toward explanations for events that are consistent with what is already known as fact, and if two or more possibilities exist to explain how something has happened, I will accept the simpler as being more likely.
There are those who obviously don't pay much heed to this principle of William Ockham. And in their defense, I know of no rigorous proof of its efficacy having ever been offered. (This, however, would be fertile ground for a Rutgers Economics Ph.D. Dissertation. One could start with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and press-on to fill a number of pages with Jacobian matrices.)
The fact of the matter is, however, that in countless examples from everyday life we find that Ockham's razor holds true. When I read, therefore, the comical assertion of he who would want me to believe that the government is pursuing hedge fund gurus because money is needed to put down against the deficit, I am filled simultaneously with both glee and disbelief. I am tempered in my laughter by the recognition that if someone outside of government could believe in the absurd, then obviously someone inside the government could as well. But then, once this tempering subsides, I return to my hilarity.
One can read nearly anything in the hallowed threads of ET. And who among us has not experienced a wayward finger heading toward the submit button, sometimes not to be stopped in time? -- "Guilty as charged, Your Honor."
Mr. zdreg is the one responsible for the laughter that visited itself upon me this morning. I am hoping in all sincerity that his remark is yet another example of a "wayward finger incident", "wfi" if you prefer, and not --God help us all! -- an intentional push of the button.
