Comments on: More governmental innumeracy

By: Sophistpundit

Sophistpundit — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:33:10 +0000

Math is not a prerequisite to politics…

Dustbury: if the crises are parallel, then by definition they cannot converge….

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:08:03 +0000

The government’s been in the business of giving money away for generations. It was only a matter of time before the bankers ended up on the dole.

The bankers shouldn’t be taking it, but I blame Congress and politicians in general for throwing the money around in the first place. And the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party of a news media establishment that always helps government get bigger rather than smaller and taxes get higher instead of lower.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:14:59 +0000

The lure of Big, Big Bucks has driven several hundred of them insane, I think.

By: Kay Dennison

Kay Dennison — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:26:51 +0000

The bank bailout bugs me the most. Have you ever tried to explain to your banker that you accidently overdrew your account? His answer is “Tough! We’re gonna charge you fifty bucks for that twenty dollar overdraft anyway.” Isn’t it time we tell them them the same? Silly me — I thought bankers understood money and the consequences of mishandling it.

By: Jeff Shaw

Jeff Shaw — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:53:15 +0000

Never thought you could mix Illinois politics and the smell Schrödinger’s Cat, but whaddya know? What a paradox. Or is it?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:43:18 +0000

You'd expect non-Euclidean geometry from the "reality-based community"? Not on your tintype, Binky. Incidentally, if you search Technorati for "euclidean geometry," at this moment in time this post is Numero Uno.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:40:03 +0000

Just to be anal, in Non Euclidean geometry, parallel lines do converge. I never got around to actually taking that class, so YMMV.

By: Jeff Shaw

Jeff Shaw — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:03:47 +0000

HA! Reminds me of a line from Raising Arizona – another comic story about stoopid crooks. Here’s the line customized especially for this post:

“Which is it young feller, you want I should be paralell, or you want me to converge? Cuz’ if’n I stay parallel, I caint rightly converge, and if’n I converge, then I’m not really parallel now am I?”