Monday, November 26, 2012

Is It Possible Living A Life Of Luxury Makes You Stupid?


They say this stuff, but no one can grasp it:

On the Right, there is at least as much discussion of the fact that Rubio was asked this elephant trap of a question at all as there is of the details of his answer. And that’s good. But a better question might be, why wasn’t Gabbard asked it? Or President Obama, or Senator Harry Reid or Representative Keith Ellison? After all, Gabbard’s espoused Hinduism, like Obama’s espoused Christianity or Ellison’s espoused Islam or Harry Reid’s espoused Mormonism, entails a range of commitments to claims that are, prima facie, at odds with the empirical record. But there isn’t a cottage industry in interrogating Democrats on their faith the way there is with religious conservatives.


Well shit, man, buy a cottage and start an industry - and hurry. Sheesh:

We're usually led by people of questionable competence, miserable judgment and a flexible relationship with the truth.

And they're easy enough to spot. I look for admissions like this:

Is it possible this whole thing is playing out before our eyes and we’re not really noticing because we’re too busy looking at data on paper instead of what’s in front of us? Maybe that’s the real distortion of the polls this year: They left us discounting the world around us.

See? "Discounting the world around us" is the BIG issue (if I do say so myself) though I don't know about the "us" part:





1 comment:

  1. I forgot how much fun you are, Crack.

    I was reading one of your notes about Hinduism, and was thinking about the anthropomorphism of the "Creator" as having human like qualities. Probably not very likely, but no one knows.

    By the way, I liked this one thing I read in the Christian Science Monitor years ago, about a physicist defending the idea of a creator. His idea was that in physics it is theoretically possible to take a 4 KG mass, accelerate it to the right velocity, and poof, you create a universe therein. So his thinking is that we may come from a long, long line of experimenters creating universes, and who knows, someday we may do the same. Seems about as realistic as any other theory.

    BTW, I can't believe the alternate medicine people got into the Obama gravy train. How the hell did that happen? Are they going to allow homeopathy too? Jeez.

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