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"Nonsense is a no-lose proposition in Idiot America"

Saturday, December 17, 2005

You really want to read Charles Pierce's spot-on Esquire article about Idiot America, here. Teased on the cover as "Creationists and Other Idiots" (I don't blame you for not noticing; I didn't either, what with Jessica Biel sprawled across the cover.) Quote to note:

"Even in the developing world, where I spend lots of time doing my
work," Hodges says, "if you tell them that you're from MIT and you tell them that you do science, it's a big deal. If I go to India and tell them I'm from MIT, it's a big deal. In Thailand, it's a big deal. If I go to Iowa, they could give a rat's ass. And that's a weird thing, that we're moving in that direction as a nation."

And frankly, in the wake of Bush admitting that we went to war based on faulty intelligence, you ought to read our post on the topic from earlier this week. Which is suddenly even more relevant.

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