Before I begin, a disclaimer: I do not wish to insult any logicians out there with this blog. You may feel free to counter with some details of what you find so compelling about the study of logic. Perhaps I am but too young in the study to truly appreciate the beauty of argument dissection. Regardless, if anyone is offended, please feel free to pick my writing apart, test it for validity, and post your results below....

In order to obtain the final three credits required for my undergraduate degree, I elected to take a logic class. I had dabbled in logic in other Philosophy classes and found it fairly simple, so I thought that perhaps an entire course devoted to logic would help to lighten the semester's burden. (I'm taking 18 credits so I can graduate a semester early, and, with work, it gets a little crazy.)

Unfortunately, I now find myself regularly calling down curses upon the house of my professor and snidely informing my dog, while doing homework, that this is the most asinine thing about which I have ever been asked to care. Currently, I am spending my evening drawing truth tables. For those lucky ones out there who don't know what truth tables are, basically you take a couple statements, with a word like and, or, or not in between them and draw a table. In the table you list whether the little word in the center will still be true if both statements are true, if the first is true, if the first is false, and so on.

Yes. I'm serious.

Now, my question is, how will this EVER be of any significance to me or anyone else? I can understand being pushed through a couple required Science courses, even though I am a Political Science major. It's important to have some basic knowledge of science, because it relates to life. But when was the last time you heard a politician turn to his opponent in a debate and say, "You are lying! Just look at my truth table!"

This is beyond asinine. It is a form of torture. Forget truth serum, forget sleep deprivation. Just find yourself a nice logic textbook and get to reading. Your prisoner will be talking in no time - assuming, of course, that you don't kill yourself first.