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Calvinball as political sport:

Jul 30, 2009 16:29

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marklafon July 31 2009, 00:11:27 UTC

Quote from Questionable Content, the web comic: "I am skilled on origami. Would you like me to make you a tin foil hat?"

It would be interesting, although scary to actually do, to gather enough info to see what overlap there is in the Birthers, the Palinites, the 911ers, the moon hoaxers, the Creationists and other fringe folk. I suspect that a Venn diagram would be series of concentric circles.

jrittenhouse July 31 2009, 00:41:41 UTC

I have better things to do, like count raindrops.

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jrittenhouse July 31 2009, 19:20:59 UTC

http://bit.ly/11dTWY
http://bit.ly/13sbbg

With the government, it's generally easier and more likely (unless you're thinking about Dick Cheney, in which case, anything's possible) that someone screwed up and is covering up the screwup to save their butts.

I don't believe NORAD stood down, I think that they were caught flat-footed; think Andreas Rust landing outside the Kremlin.

astro_not1 August 1 2009, 17:36:37 UTC

First of all, Cheney is and was capable of anything, no argument there. As to getting caught flat-footed like the Kremlin did with Rust, he was flying a single-engine light plane, and would not have made so large a target on the radar, making it possible for the Russians to miss him until it was too late. On 9/11, we were dealing with 4 airliners, with transponders, going off course, with no interception until the last one was heading back toward Washington ( ... )

zurcherart July 31 2009, 10:40:49 UTC

Who's the cute guy in the tin foil hat?

jrittenhouse July 31 2009, 18:52:45 UTC

It ain't me, that's for certain!

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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.

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