Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Drove by the Powers building the other day and Tom Termotto's name popped into my head. Does anyone remember this huge saga/scandal from the 80s?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Rochester/comments/yk3zec/drove_by_the_powers_building_the_other_day_and/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle/40313515/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle/7022440/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/4/18/netmen-sweep-doubles-turn-columbia-aside/
Monday, October 14, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Body parts in freezer left at Colorado home spark homicide investigation
According to Colorado Public Radio, records show a home on the street where Overstreet’s remains were discovered belonged to a Bradley David Imer, who died of Covid-19 in 2021. The outlet said Imer’s death certificate lists his spouse as Leanne Overstreet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/colorado-freezer-body-part-homicide-investigation
She was apparently taken in by her grandmother and formally adopted by her at some point.
The grandmother was a geometry teacher in Kountze, Texas.
But the grandmother had cancer and died of it in 2005, the same year the girl disappeared.
Her grandmother /adoptive mom was Half a O Overstreet.
Her bio mother is LeAnn or LeAnne Overstreet.
10 yrs ago, reportedly, friends were looking for her and were brushed off by LeAnne, who allegedly told them the girl had run away.
The dad did it.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Aristotle’s Political Theory
He next considers paternal and marital rule, which he also views as defensible: “the male is by nature more capable of leadership than the female, unless he is constituted in some way contrary to nature, and the elder and perfect [is by nature more capable of leadership] than the younger and imperfect” (I.12.1259a39–b4).
Aristotle is persuasive when he argues that children need adult supervision because their rationality is “imperfect” (ateles) or immature. But he is unconvincing to modern readers when he alleges (without substantiation) that, although women have a deliberative faculty, it is “without authority” (akuron), so that females require male supervision (I.13.1260a13–14). (Aristotle’s arguments about slaves and women appear so weak that some commentators take them to be ironic. However, what is obvious to a modern reader need not have been so to an ancient Greek, so that it is not necessary to suppose Aristotle’s discussion is disingenuous.) It is noteworthy, however, that paternal and marital rule are properly practiced for the sake of the ruled (for the sake of the child and of the wife respectively), just as arts like medicine or gymnastics are practiced for the sake of the patient (III.6.1278b37–1279a1). In this respect they resemble political rule, which is the form of rule appropriate when the ruler and the subject have equal and similar rational capacities. This is exemplified by naturally equal citizens who take turns at ruling for one another’s advantage (1279a8–13). This sets the stage for the fundamental claim of Aristotle’s constitutional theory: “constitutions which aim at the common advantage are correct and just without qualification, whereas those which aim only at the advantage of the rulers are deviant and unjust, because they involve despotic rule which is inappropriate for a community of free persons” (1279a17–21).
