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Some quickies from my Adventures in Procrastination(TM) today:
First up, Kathy G., over at The G Spot coins a word, and makes me wish I had thought of it first. She decided to cover BITTERGATE!!!111. The post is "What's the Matter With Pennsylvania"--a pretty clear reference to the book What's the Matter With Kansas, which makes the argument Obama was making in San Francisco (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, see my previous coverage here and here.) Here's what she says:
I'll outsource my commentary on the whole mind-bogglingly inane, bad-faith "oh my godz Barack Obama is a latte-sipping elitist!" imblogio to Tom S., Pennslyvanian [sic] and proprietor of the splendid new blog, Rust Belt Intellectual.
Imblogio--fucking brilliant.
Next up, a funny joke relating to my private reading paper on Intelligent Design and scientific demarcation. Here it goes, stolen shamelessly from Scott F. Gilberet's article "The Aerodynamics of Flying Carpets" in the book The Panda's Black Box, edited by Nathanial Comfort:
Three engineers were arguing about what type of engineer God is. The first, pointing to our ability to walk, talk, swallow, and type claimed that God must be a mechanical engineer of the highest order. The second engineer countered, "That’s child’s play compared to the central nervous system." Invoking our capacities for cognition, memory, and emotion, he proposed that God must be the archetypal electrical engineer. The third engineer shook his head, and said, "No, God is a municipal engineer, and not a very good one." The other engineers were shocked. "How could you say this?" they demanded. The third engineer looked at them and answered. "Who but a lousy municipal engineer would put a toxic waste disposal duct through prime recreation area?"
To quote Chris Matthews:
ha!
ha!
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