A life in words

  • Wikipedia: no muy autoritario

    So, there’s all kinds of stink lately as a result of Wikipedia‘s defamatory information debacle. Today, I got back a paper back in my Spanish Literature class. In that paper, I cited Wikipedia’€™s Spanish language article on the Ultraism movement in Spain in the early 20th Century. I also cited Wikipedia for some information on…

  • Amigote: a blog identity crisis!

    Ok, I’ve begun the process of developing my own theme for this blog. Its ancestry goes directly to the c3ro theme, and basically it is exactly the same… for now! The name of my version of the theme is “Amigote” which as we all know is Spanish for “big jerk friend” (approx. translation). I figured,…

  • Shanwei/Dongzhou Massacre

    Please read and compare the Chinese state news agency’€™s report on the massacre to this one in the Epoch Times. As you can see, the official version of events is a bit watered down! Additionally, there is a very good photo gallery by the Epoch Times. I’m surprised they were able to get these sorts…

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion…. Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations…. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form….John Stuart Mill, On LIberty