Comedy Is Hard

buh…wuh…but if it were self-evidently ridiculous not to know how many houses one owns then surely…but….aw, never mind.

Powerline is evidence that we’re being experimented on by vast alien intelligences. It has to be satire, but satire taken to such levels that it’s unbelievable that it’s written by mere humans. First, they had the brilliant idea of referring to themselves by ridiculous phallic monikers (‘Hindrocket’, ‘The Big Trunk’) and then, and this was complete genius, they denied any intent behind the double entendres.

Assrocket’s capacity for cognitive dissonance (or doublethink) may be rivalled by supercomputers in the late 22nd century if Moore’s law holds true. I loved his quoting the McCain spokesperson: “Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses? ” Only $4 million? But that’s middle-class according to McCain.

“Given the number of nights he’s spent in hotels or on military bases over the last few years, it’s no wonder he hasn’t seen much of his wife’s condos.” The very thought of a McCain sex scandal turns the stomach, but what a great set-up. Seriously if this story is true, no wonder McCain spends so many nights in hotels.

…he cares little about material things, and for many years has devoted his extraordinary energies not to enjoying his wife’s money, but to serving the American people.

Greandpa Lenin was like that too – everything for the people. Especially the children.

Laughing at McCain is ageist. Laughing at the inadequacy of his responses to any question – how many houses he owns, how we should handle Iraq, how we should respond to Russia’s Georgian incursion – is simply ageist and impermissible. So is his incoherence with respect to taxes, deficits, the economy, employment, health insurance. He doesn’t know, he can’t remember, and it’s ageist to suggest that this ought to disqualify him. It’s not his fault that he’s old!

This superposition can only be maintained so long as the joke is unobserved (except by its author, who does not count as conscious – otherwise why would he have written such a thing?)

AHHHH! Destroying a Superposition of a quantum state through a measurement has nothing to do whatsoever with the consciousness of the observer. As the superposition is created by Assrocket, it is obviously an eigenstate on his observation basis.

Also, what’s the joke then about the kids’ wii games? If the neckties thing was the joke, then why throw that in there?

the water pitcher is half broken, or half whole. I particularly like “half whole”

“always about projection”
Projecting onto an eigenstate is what happens when the wavefunction collapses. The observer does this, so projection is not a property of the original state. You have proven another coulteristic ironics maxim that “it’s your fault, I’m good”

As an aside with suppressed first order ironics, study of the systems that can create such superpositions is worthwhile. More particularly looking at the systems where such superpositions retain their eigenfunction status and interact strongly. With a strong “clan idendification” field to break the free space symmetry the problem reduces to a one dimensional “us” or “them” space. Minor dimensions like brokenness of pitchers, ties, economic utility or objective reality are perturbations forced into what ever superposition is required by the strong field. One could probably even talk about how ensembles of such superposition conceptual states are actually the source of the strong field, but that would probably collapse back into first order ironics, snark or plain old WTF.

@ lisa #8, I’m with you there, I think the “liberating power of humor” (preferably at the expense of somebody you also happen to be bombing) is a ripe target for some really cutting satire. Actually, it was a ripe target for cutting satire 3-5 years ago. Now it almost feels like old news. Borat Goes to Baghdad: coming soon?

American politics is unbelievable crap. We are about to elect arguably the most powerful and influencial person in the world, one who will be charged with repairing the incalculable damage our current and embarrassing Chief Executive has wrought. Yet we see an electorate arguing about houses and such.

I have seen the enemy and it is us. The very wealthy, among whom the McCain family occupies a lower rung, live lives unfamiliar to the majority . I know this old money billionaire who drives a Prius and distains the Bentley Coupe ($250,000) as gauche because too many of the “new money ” sort drive them…..Are these really the issues we should dwell upon, is this how we select our leader?

You know, retirement to Costa Rica sounds better and better to me.

Right wing pundits routinely use the ‘it was only a joke’ line whenever they receive push-back on something that was egregiously racist, indefensible, or insane. This is an example of that (I’d put it in the insane category myself).

RE: #22… whoever claimed that democracy was rational? Or that the parties involved were altruistic?

The ‘how many houses’ story is brilliant campaign theatre, and it would be electoral malpractice for the Obama campaign not to seize on it. That they have done a tremendous job in propelling this story and carrying it over several news cycles actually shows a fair amount of savvy, and has quieted doubts about their ability to counter-punch (the McCain’s celebrity ads were taking a toll on Obama’s poll numbers, after all).

What is more, it is a perfect ‘gotcha’ moment: because in one instant it shows the gigantic disconnect between Republican policies and the needs and lives of ordinary voters—in a way that is more illustrative and more engaging that a thousand town hall meetings, or any number of wonky policy speeches. This story will die and will be subsumed by the party conventions. But expect to see it again in the weeks before election day—I have no doubt that the Obama campaign will want to use this example of McCain’s out of touch style to drive undecided voters to their side.

But, John, you’re being unfair to Republicans. They are the majority of American voters. They are regular people and have robust, normal senses of humor. To whale on Republicans is classist. The regulars on this blog are members of the elite who have abandoned the heartland for the big city in order to pursue goals most people rightly don’t understand and — even if you put forward reasonable arguments on occasion — are wrong and will always be wrong unless and until they switch sides.

I bet my dad could have accumulated close to 50 ties over the decades. Of course, several of them were four inches wide.

Has anyone done a title search on the McCain-related real estate? It’s possible he doesn’t own any of it, that it’s all Cindy’s separate property and that some of it is in the name of one or more of her business interests. That should be interesting to discover, and it could cut different ways in the campaign. He!!, I wouldn’t let him near my estate, if I were she.

For a guy to know immediately how many ties he owns is akin to a woman’s knowing on the instanter how many pairs of shoes she has. I would guess that in the closet in both cases there are some that haven’t been donned in five years (or ever).

You know, when the Illuminati seize global power and create a one world government in which all nations are states, every election campaign around the world will be like this. So there’s that to look forward to.

Re: ‘If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.’>
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Rea you’re so right, I robbed Peter to pay Paul and Paul still hates me…no wonder I’m conservative.

Opps, just realised Bianca was taking the piss. Sorry about that. I had a long lunch. Do carry on.