[xlib]

Anybody see the beginning? I surfed over from Fox during a commercial, and saw Chomsky jawing about the World Court calling the US a terrorist nation. Later, Bennett pointed out that refugees from tyranny and war always seem to flee TO the US, not FROM it, and asked Chomsky why he chose to live in a "terrorist nation." He also brought up the Khmer Rouge lies from the '70's. Chomsky denied it, but time ran out before he could offer a defense.

[day10]

Chomsky would be unarmed in this battle.

Transcript or summary anyone?

[miamimark]

Chomsky started out with the Nicaragua Contras and used that as an example that the US is a "terrorist state."

I don't like that pompous Bennett-but he kicked ass today.

[Paul Atreides]

Notice that these intellectually-superior, high-moraled, guilty white liberals NEVER are principled enough to LEAVE! We have all been hearing that paradise that is Cuba but none of them never go to stay. Either put up or shut up.

[boris]

Chomsky has been reduced to an algorithm:

The Chomskybot

"For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features appears to correlate rather closely with the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. Nevertheless, the theory of syntactic features developed earlier is, apparently, determined by the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. We have already seen that the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is unspecified with respect to irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules."

"On our assumptions, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics is rather different from a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. Thus the notion of level of grammaticalness can be defined in such a way as to impose nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. We will bring evidence in favor of the following thesis: the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is not to be considered in determining the strong generative capacity of the theory."

Got all that?

--Boris

[NativeNewYorker]

I saw Chomsky on multiple storefront TV screens as I walked to my midtown office this morning. I couldn't believe CNN had that guy on. At least he was set up opposite an intelligent counterparty.