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The Ad Is Just Fantastic, That Is Really What I Think. Oh, By The Way:
Which One’s Pink?

Posted on | February 28, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty (via American Power)

The non-snobby one with the Santorum sign at the end, of course:

Maybe I’m the only one who immediately thought of. . .

but Santorum’s ad is dated 18 January, more than a month before Rick pointed out the Orwellian snobbery of #OccupyResoluteDesk saying everyone should go to college.

I’ll weigh in agreeing with Santorum, and against Walter Russell Mead; education is where you, subjectively, find it. Conversely, technology, like laquer, can make a turd shiny, but has little effect on intrinsic turdiness. #OccupyResoluteDesk is a prime, expensive, and particularly petulant example.

Now, I hold an engineering undergraduate degree, and two master’s. I have intentions of returning to the ivory tower to pursue a doctorate in Computer Science, one of these decades. Why? Mostly because I like the mental chess match of check-mating a problem with software pieces.

Now, my father earned a G.E.D., and my brother has a high school diploma. Does my relative nerdiness within my family translate into superiority? Probably it could, if I was the sort of fool who prized intellectual point scoring over wisdom.

That’s the beauty of American Exceptionalism: it keeps the smarmy academic types in line when, despite Nobel Prizes, Academy Awards, and more degrees than a thermometer, one man’s vote is as good as another, and the biggest doof can point to the purportedly smartest guy in the room and say: “No, there are not 57 states, you godforsaken Commie.”

I wouldn’t accuse Rick Santorum of being perfect, but we’re choosing a POTUS, not a savior here. Speaking of which, #OccupyResoluteDesk’s handlers are, even now, preparing him for another outburst of Bush blaming:

Category: Barack Obama, Rick Santorum

Comments

4 Responses to “The Ad Is Just Fantastic, That Is Really What I Think. Oh, By The Way:
Which One’s Pink?”

  1. Finrod Felagund
    February 28th, 2012 @ 9:54 am

    +10 for the Pink Floyd references.

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  3. Bob Belvedere
    February 28th, 2012 @ 5:26 pm

    Good one, Arnold Layne.

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