The Volokh Conspiracy
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Norm MacDonald and the Professor of Logic
A sharp bit by the late, great comic.
From a 1996 appearance on the Conan O'Brien Show.
R.I.P.
(For more on MacDonald, see this obituary by Sonny Bunch.)
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Sorry to hear about this death.
Wouldn't it be nice if a course in critical thinking could become a college pre-law requirement, and another in the scientific method and its problems?
Then, wouldn't it be nice if all the Fallacies that make the lawyer profession stink could be mercilessly removed from the Rules of Conduct, of Civil Procedure, of Criminal Procedure, of Evidence, of Administrative Procedure, of Court Procedure?
Here is a small example. Argument by Authority. OK in 1275 AD. Not OK today.
Volokh does nothing but argue by authority. The reader should understand its sole validation is enforcement by a guy with a gun. It has no validity whatsoever.
Great bit. I worry that we won't see bits like that anymore now that we're in the snowflake era. I miss the 1990s.
I'll miss Norm MacDonald. I enjoyed his recent work playing a pigeon on Mike Tyson Mysteries. No one will ever play a pigeon more convincingly and hilariously than Norm MacDonald. It was an uncanny performance.
https://twitter.com/TomJackmanWP/status/1437859565345939463
Sigh. This is just sad. RIP. My favorite comedian. Sign. Like ususally celebrity deaths dont matter to me because they are people I could care less about, but Norm ... its a shame.
Whereas most people try to act smarter than they are (often transparently), Norm played dumber than he was. It was endearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyb-XNmak-k
Ask not for whom the modus tollens. rip&lp
Mr. D.
Man, he was funny. He was the Weekend Update anchor during the O.J. Simpson trial. Someone on YouTube did a stitch-up of all the OJ bits he did. Just hilarious. Back when SNL was actually funny.