In arguments where someone claims “A can’t be true because it would cause B and B is undesirable”, it’s probably a safe bet that A doesn’t cause B, because it’s being mentioned as supposedly obvious by the same sort of person who doesn’t recognize their own desires have no impact on whether something is true or not.
Maybe it’s just me, but this sort of stuff looks like, potentially, the very earliest days of the bitchun society.
So I was sitting around with someone, introducing them to the unique pleasure of eating chocolate covered espresso beans. First a milk chocolate one. She loved it.
Then a white chocolate one.
Then a dark chocolate one.
Then I pull out another white chocolate espresso bean which happened to have a slightly mottled appearance with several brown spots on it.
“Oh! Is that one coffee flavored?”
[long pause]
“Well, yes dear.”
Get this: Giuliani says Dem victory would leave U.S. ‘to the left of France’. I don’t know what the big deal is. Most maps show the US to the left of France already.
Rather than choosing to explain why a fifth of Americans can’t find the US on a world map, Miss South Carolina apparently chose to demonstrate why.
This is a perfect example of the sort of person who goes on to a bright future in government or corporate communications departments. They string overtly intelligent-sounding but vapid catch-phrases together regardless of actual semantic content (or lack thereof). Expressing a coherent thought is at best optional and often to risky within the context of jockeying for status within hierarchies.
This is what the US education/indoctrination system produces because this is what the authoritarian US political system demands. We are fast approaching what the late Robert Anton Wilson (Goddess rest his soul) referred to as “Optimum Fuckup” in his discussions of communications theory.
Hat tip: Last Free Voice
UPDATE: We find a relevant factoid in this article that also happens to briefly mention a beauty queen (sort of…), but otherwise is not particularly relevant in toto…
“Miller’s routine is called “Incredible Feats of Stupidity” and highlights Pentagon programs such as the one that provided landlocked Zimbabwe with anti-submarine rockets.”
Not that stupid when you realize a fundamental purpose of the US defense budget is simply to act as an overt rationale to transfer wealth from the productive class to political class defense contractors.
Knowledge of geography is now fucking subversive…
If we keep this up, people can collect the whole set. Get yours here.
The magnificent Scott Bieser has created the Ron Paul vs Benito Giuliani political cartoon below and given permission for open distribution without alteration apart from resizing. Copy and repost this image. Spread it far and wide.
To funny to not repost. Hat tip to: Last Free Voice
Knappster could use some slack. Help him achieve it by showing some compassion (or reciprocity for you partyarchs out there) for his kid’s lonely Bring Back Hamtaro crusade. Just sign the danged petition.
