Vangel Vesovski

Great book..., Dec 29 2010

My twelve year old son picked up the book at my local bookstore and could not put it down. While many of the aphorisms confused him, most made him think and he began to ask quite a few questions. Soon we were discussing various points and had more than a few laughs at the many victims of Taleb's wit. I wound up buying the book and picking up two extra copies as gifts for people who I am sure will enjoy reading discussing it, even if they are offended by some of Taleb's pronouncements.

Those that have read Taleb and are familiar with his books will have little trouble recognizing that the book is a further exploration of his theme of how individuals deal, and how they should… Read more

Misses the point..., Dec 13 2010

This is a horrible work that misses the major and most important point that was made by Sophocles. In the real play, when asked why she ignored the king's order and why she buried her brother, Antigone confronts Creon with the argument that there is a higher law than his. That is a crucial point made by Sophocles. He argued that there are natural laws that kings and states have to obey and no matter how hard they tried rulers could not rise above them. He argued that when confronted with man made law that violated natural law it was the duty of citizens to ignore the law of the state and obey the law of nature. This point is too hard for the makers of this version of Antigone to accept… Read more

A bad joke...., Oct 15 2010

With each passing day it is becoming more and more apparent that Al Gore's hype about global warming is based on a series of omissions, unsupported speculations and outright deceptions. The targets are so easy that it is hard to know where to begin. But we need to begin somewhere so let us start with those lovable (but vicious) creatures, the polar bears.

In his movie as well as in this book Gore uses images of polar bears to tug at our heart strings and claim that global warming is a big danger. Gore argues that the polar bears are drowning because of disappearing ice due to warmer temperatures caused by CO2 emissions. On page 131 he claims that due to this melting polar… Read more