Ooohh! It’s a kind of temper tantrum that takes the form of an extended straw man! Let’s go through a few qoutes, eh?
Oh gee, I just love the conservative tendency to talk about what the opponent thinks, as if one is some kind of mind-reader, instead of stating one’s own position, kind of like the GOP on any policy specific whatsoever come election season. But for what it is worth, um, no, I don’t think all the secrets of human experience can be discovered through differential equations. Ultimately that subject settles into the realm of the sub-symbolic, which math ultimately can’t describe. Kind of a sat-chit-ananda kind of thing… Jesus, don’t get me started!
But I will say that condescension towards the Rick Perrys and Charles C. W. Cookes of the world is entirely warranted. Straw-character assassination fail!
Yah right. Look at Stranger on a Train’s posts; compare to mine. Who’s smarter? I’ll give you one guess
not me
Looks like I’ve escaped this guy’s definition of ‘nerd’, but anyway, looks like what he’s getting at is that nerds aren’t uneducated racist xenophobes, or something like that. It is hard to make out through all the bullshit in his article.
And that barely scratches the surface of teh stoopid. A few more that jumped out at me:
This neatly sidesteps the obvious problem that Scott Walker would be about as likely to request a cameo appearance on Cosmos as he would on Vampire Lesbian Communists From Uranus, and for the same reason – his constituency would be royally pissed off.
Stating the facts in sneering tones with sneer quotes does not change the fact that the facts are, in fact, facts.
(One Dylan song can be adapted, changing very few words, to make the theme Benghazi or Godomize, as in the crude example below. Here’s the melody.)
*Darkness at the break of noon
Godomized by shrill-voiced loon
The store-bought gun, the Fox buffoon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in Benghazi.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Bullets are good but condoms are porn
Sounds the fools’ brazen horn
The brains of American sheeple are shorn
Voice of reason cries, forlorn
We’re led by the crazy.
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
Your candidate’s
Already been Benghazied.
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing.
One day after the Republicans in the House vote to sue Obama for issuing Executive Orders, they refused to vote for the Republican leadership’s version of a bill to deal with the situation on the border. So Boehner says, “Obama can just issue an Executive Order to deal with the problem.”