Cast Iron Brains is here with a bloated episode that is also somehow a solid thirty minutes shorter than it almost was. This week we’re trying to tie together seemingly disparate stories into a cohesive whole with the help of a long-dead Austrian philosopher, with decidedly mixed results. Enjoy!
Show Rundown:
7:32 --> Major League Baseball’s instant replay system blows an obvious one
17:52 --> Bob hears an amusing contradiction on NPR
28:32 --> Daunte Wright “accidentally” killed by police in Minnesota during a traffic stop
56:11 --> Virginia police sued for an unnecessarily hostile and violent traffic stop
1:12:54 --> UVA sued for dismissing a med student for his questions during a panel discussion on microaggressions
1:32:45 --> Philosophy Class with Abe!
1:43:43 --> Listener Tyler with a question about DeShaun Watson
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In which a baseball player scores a run despite never having touched home plate, in contravention of all known laws of the universe:
The Proud Boys are in trouble for inciting and exploiting violence among their followers. DMX, who died recently, is being held considerably less than accountable for his own violent speech in the wake of his death.
Here’s the New York Times with a summary of the Daunte Wright story. Below is the bodycam video of the officer who shot him.
In many states, hanging an air freshener from your rearview mirror is considered enough of a danger to the public that it compels the police to pull you over and potentially engage you in lethal confrontation. Land of the free, home of the brave, et cetera et cetera.
Here’s the Washington Post on Caron Nazario’s run in with some angry and irrational police officers outside Norfolk, Virginia. Embedded below is a video of the encounter.
From Reason dot com: A Medical Student Questioned Microaggressions. UVA Branded Him a Threat and Banished Him from Campus.
The above is a comprehensible-enough illustration of Wittgenstein’s “Beetle in a box” thought experiment. Here is some more reading on the subject of “private language,” if you’re interested. And some more reading. And, for those less inclined to read, a dick joke about the Beetle in a Box, from Existential Comics:
