Comments on: Botuli gratia botulorum

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 06:41:13 +0000

What were once vices are now verses.

By: smuttynose

smuttynose — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:53:27 +0000

Bell Curve author/idiot had his own data showing the superiority of asians in math/science but failed (as a loyal white boy?) to conclude that asains were superior to whites in these areas. why then did he conclude based the same sort of data that blacks are inferior to whites academically? hypocrisy, self-loathing? i con’t care why, its just intelectually dishonest. how ‘bout you, tco, care to discuss? or do you just throw bombs?

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:04:28 +0000

Bad Jim – ouch!

now if we could only tempt John M. Ford etc over from “Making Light,” we could have an interesting little Vogon poetry competition.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:48:59 +0000

While touring alluring
oceans in motion
reaching beaches
dappled with apples
and continuing viewing
the mountainous countenance
of blocks of rocks
quickened with chickens
Hans realized that this was the Wurst.

(Oh, well, this year’s Bulwer-Lytton entries were disappointing, too.)

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 02:16:53 +0000

But glow, not so much. (Well depending I suppose on the level of radioactivity in the chicken feed.)

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:57:18 +0000

One thing offal has in common with snow is that it glistens.

By: tvd

tvd — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:48:56 +0000

Perhaps he meant to compare the writing of The Bell Curve to making sausage.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:16:14 +0000

I think the only thing that comment #1 has in common with Henry’s posting is the reference to offal.

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:14:26 +0000

Oh that alluring ocean frontage! Oh those glistening passages! Oh the offal, offal punnage!

It is, nonetheless, a fact that I am never more Yoorpean than in the matter of sossage. The meaty sossage of Toulouse! The Currywurst of Berlin! The chorizo hotdog (me’ senap, tack!) of Stockholm! The startlingly pink pølse of Danmark! I embrace them all! (Although not, of course, literally.)

By: sharon

sharon — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:28:05 +0000

Now that should have been entered for the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, surely.

By: TCO

TCO — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:31:53 +0000

What do y’all lefty social scientists think of Jenkins and THE BELL CURVE. Good science, pushing the boundaries of comfort…or disguised racism that is not validated by the data? Any discussion here on site?