Lexicon: Revealed at last!

An example is coming up in the next post.

It's a shortened version of the title of Harlan Ellison's introduction to his story collection Strange Wine, "Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself."

Revealed at Last! Why I persuade so few people!

Errol Morris has a great piece in the New York Times today on lying. Or a taxonomy of lying, if you will.

The real find is when he talks about that well-known cut-up Arthur Schopenhauer and his work “The Art of Controversy” ["Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten"], also translated as “The Art of Being Right” (available online here):

Schopenhauer’s premise was a simple one. There are two ways to win an argument. There is logic and there is dialectic. Since no one ever wins an argument with logic, he moves on quickly to dialectic — to 38 nasty ways to win an argument any way you can. Most (if not all of them) involve tergiversation, deception, chicanery, manipulation, insincerity, hyperbole, out-right lying and probably a number of other similarly descriptive concepts that I can’t think of offhand. {emphasis added}

Cue LOLCAT: IM DOIN IT WRONG