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Calvinball as political sport:

Jul 30, 2009 16:29

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zurcherart July 31 2009, 18:15:26 UTC

One more thing. There's a foil-hat wearer on my flist. He's not a birther, but he makes a lot of wild claims on your list. He's very intelligent and he's a Ph.d mathematician which makes me scratch my head.

jrittenhouse July 31 2009, 18:56:20 UTC

I try whenever someone's being way off to say 'are you **sure** about that' if I think they're way off the beam. Brains = brains, but everyone has their weird pre-judgements on the world that aren't connected to anything solid.

I try hard to keep mine to a bare minimum. I have this notion that Tinderbox for Windows is a colossal and rude joke, for instance. (I run WinXP and Ubuntu and have no problems with folks running Macs, but I lust for a copy of Tinderbox that would work on my system.)

marklafon August 1 2009, 10:28:54 UTC

I have a cousin that is a birther. And a bit of a UFO believer. He is fairly smart but has a regrettable tendency to be uncritical about what he hears. And, regrettably, he is also a tad lazy when it comes to checking stuff out. He would rather just go with what he is told. Yes, he watches Faux News.

BTW, he is one who recently got shot and actually asked if he should bother with going to the doctor and having the lead removed. Sigh. Family is tough but sometimes not too reassuring in the brains department.

jrittenhouse August 2 2009, 15:54:41 UTC

Dense. Post.

marklafon August 2 2009, 20:18:05 UTC

Well, parts of him seem to have the density of lead now.

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