Saturday, November 20, 2010

Hold der bus?

REGURGE: Ghailani’s lawyer praised the verdict as “a reaffirmation that this nation’s judicial system is the greatest ever devised.” Or, in other words, “Thanks for everything, suckers.”

15 comments:

Mr roT said...

Exact label choice, Tecs! All this advice I have been giving you is finally paying off.

I would maybe have put "Ukraine" in there also, but "Brownie..." is right on.

Tecumseh said...

Good to seer you're finally starting to appreciate my savoir-faire (if you dig my French), but how come you did not also comment on my title? Far as I know, I'm the first one in the Universe to have thought of this particular pun. Am I gonna get recognition for that?

Mr roT said...

If you sage so...

Tecumseh said...

From the comments to Lowry's piece:

If someone is responsible for the conspiracy to blow up buildings (A), and if it's foreseeable that people would die if the buildings were blown up (B), then persons responsible for the conspiracy are responsible for the resulting deaths (C).

Or, in honor of John Derbyshire:
If A=B, and B=C, then A=C.

Oh, c'mon. $\Rightarrow \neq =$. Jeepers, how low are we sinking with the Rotter Logick in action?

Mr roT said...

Tecs, you're too high-tech! You're using \lesssim to solve a \CD problem!

Seethe!

Pay up!

Tecumseh said...

WTF are you talking about? The guy clearly writes A=B and B=C, when on the face of it A \ne B, and B\ne C. It's like those undergrads who put in equal signs randomly, to signify something, like God knows why, but anything except equality, which should have a definite (and unique) meaning. No?

Mr roT said...

Ah, sorry. I thought you were upset that he was invoking the transitivity of equality when the transitivity of a partial order was enough.

I should like, uh, read, but I am up to my arse in awful \lesssims today.

My collabo in Deutschland told me to avoid this problem, but did I listen?

It's gross.

Mr roT said...

Also, I had to make do with the last shriveled piece of Kaiserfleisch today at lunch, Tecs!

I went in at 1220 and they were already out.

WTF is that?

Mr roT said...

Is it kosher to kvetch about Kaiserfleisch?

Arelcao Akleos said...

Only if you have to eat it with Knishes.

Mr roT said...

K^4. Even more rathith than I am!

Tecumseh said...

Put the kibosh on knishes and kaiserfleisch, or else your keister is gonna weigh a hundred kilos.

Mr roT said...

Tecs, Tecs, Tecs, Tecs, Tecs, Tecs, Tecs, Tecs, we capitalize nouns....

Tecumseh said...

Which nouns? Like, noun is a noun, and it's not capitalized, is it?

Mr roT said...

kaiserfleisch is a noun.