Thursday, January 31, 2008

And ne'er the twain shall meet

I rarely stray over to the Huffenstuff Post, but this cri de coeur is embarrassing enough for a chuckle or two. My favorite graf:

Even if we were to strike the war from the syllabus, we'd still be left with a choice between a once-in-a-generation, transformational candidate who's running parallel to our collective desire to remake the party, and, on the other side, a candidate who represents a species of Democrat that we've traditionally rejected. If the blogs choose to step out of the way on this one, they're forfeiting an historic role in the most historic presidential election of our time while the antiquated, embarrassing politics of DLC triangulation sneaks on by without a fight.
I note in passing that parellel lines meet only in infinity, and thus does geometric innumeracy doom another progressive to utter an unintentional truth.

13 comments:

boston said...

What about non-Euclidean geometry?

boston said...

What about non-Euclidean geometry?

Anonymous said...

You don't get it: the "ideal points" of the projective plane are precisely the points at which each family of parallel lines "meet at infinity".

So IOZ was speaking loosely, but not incorrectly because the "real" world is "affine", not projective, and therefore one in which parallel lines only meet "at infinity".

Unless you want to talk the linear perspective of pictures, or the retinas at the backs of our eyes ... which kind of makes IOZ's point for him ...

andrew said...

an historic role in the most historic presidential election of our time

Someone needs a thesaurus...

IOZ said...

"... our [historic] time."

Aaron said...

Parallel lines not meeting is more or less (sorry Bernhard!)definitional, so I don't think numeracy has much to do with it. "Geometrical innumeracy" is an odd construction. "Ignorant" would probably do.

Otherwise, good points.

SteveB said...

Extra pretensiousness points for "an historic."

The letter "h" is a consonant, unless you're Eliza Dolitttle.

LA Confidential Pantload said...

A once-in-a-generation transformational candidate? Who the FUCK is he talking about? The Wolf Man? Elvis Presley? Lyndon LaRouche? This election season is really the strangest I can recall. There's always some overblown rhetoric, but jeez....

fish said...

It should be a little embarrassing to do that in public, although I guess they make porn movies about it...

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