A couple of thousand years ago, that thoughtful gentleman named Aristotle identified The Law of Noncontradiction: "Something cannot both be and not be the same thing, at the same time, and in the same respect". That is a law that even a 5-year-old knows is true. The next time she asks you for a cookie, see if she buys your telling her that giving it to her and not giving it to her are one and the same thing.
But politicos think it is.
House Republicans are moving to pass a bill that both funds and defunds Obamacare. The bill will go to the Senate, where the defunding provisions will be removed, the Senate will approve the plan and send it to the White House for signature. Repubs can then say that they voted for a bill to defund Obamacare, but their wishes were overridden.
After two weeks of wiffling and waffling on whether to take or not take military action against the Syrian dictatorship, the President spoke to the American people and told them he would not take any action since Hasad had`agreed to turn over Syria's chemical weapons to the U.N. Two days later, it was revealed that while he was talking to us, the President was shipping arms to the al qaeda-related rebels in Syria...which sounds an awful lot like taking action to me and getting the U.S. involved in a foreign civil war.
So, Mr. Aristotle was wrong, that 5-year old girl was wrong, I was wrong...the Law of Noncontradiction can be contradicted. Politicos on both sides of the aisle have proven it wrong.
Actually, why have an aisle since you can sit on both sides of it at the same time.
And, oh yes...what was Shakespeare thinking with that "to be or not to be" stuff? What about "to be and not to be", Willie? That's my question!
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