Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:47:46PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 06:17:17AM -0800, Tom wrote:
> > Don't second-guess them; they was smart!
>
> They weren't smart, they were drunk; there's a difference. We don't
> even trust drunks to drive these days. They fall well short of the
> pedestal people put them on.
This is so profoundly offensive I cannot believe you offensive.
What you are saying is so self-evidently wrong it's laughable.
Yes, Paul, they were so stupid they changed the history of the planet.
This stupid rant is *so* off the mark I can't even get mad about it,
because it bears no relation to reality whatsoever.
>
> 1) They thought the electoral college was a good idea. This has
> burned us over the years by making it easier to rig presidential
> elections and gives states with large populations of stupid people
> (ie California[1]) disproportionately large say.
>
> 2) The vast majority of the time they spent writing the "framework"
> for the US was spent in a pub across the street from Independence
> Hall in a drunken haze.
>
>
>
> [1] Though I'm sure if they thought a state inhabited almost entirely
> by retards could one day exist, much less become very populated, they
> would probably have realized how retarded the idea was even through
> their drunken stupor.
>
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