Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard

With recent events I have had Europe on my mind a lot, so there are a couple of ideas that didn’t fit into the previous mammoth blog post. In fact, as that one was so big, I think I can afford to make this slightly shorter and less coherent. The major topics I intend to cover are a debate about Europe with a German friend and a missed example of a European sentence. These may not sound particularly interesting to people, so perhaps I should create a new “Europe” category for my blog posts, allowing people who subscribe to filter out posts like that. When I think about categorising, though, I can’t help wishing that Serendipity’s bug number 1161317 (actually a feature request) concerning “Checkbox enabled entry editing” was solved, as that way I could have great fun going back and refactoring all my previous posts. Anyway, fortunately for people who aren’t interested in what I have to say about Europe, the next section below does mention “standards”, which is a topic that has been languishing recently.

I have blogged about logical fallacies before, and I feel it might be helpful for people to read about the mistakes that are easily made in debates, so this post should be within the bounds of my normal subject matter. It’s not as if I have a picky audience who would stop reading if I strayed from their favourite topics (in fact I am honoured by the perseverance of my small readership), but I do have my own sense of what is appropriate for this blog, which doesn’t usually include current events. As I have accumulated a couple of potential examples of incomplete logic which warrant a post, I thought I would add an extra section at the end that deals with another interesting logical position I heard recently regarding the Lisbon Treaty problem, to which I have a suggested resolution.