Wednesday Morning Papers Didn’t Come
* And now they’ve taken away the Big Bang, too.
* The Internets have gone crazy with the happy news that Prop 8 has been overturned. Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gays and lesbians for denial of a marriage license.
* The president would have you believe that today is his birthday. Don’t be fooled! Wake up, sheeple!
* Arrested Development movie “half-done.” I half-believe it!
* Wyclef Jean to run for president of Haiti.
* A Very Harold and Kumar Inception.
* And Edge of the American West has your tragic political dare of the day:
Modern Republicans can’t possibly oppose both the Dred Scott decision and the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, which reverses it.
[quiet weeping]
Written by gerrycanavan
August 4, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Arrested Development, Barack Obama, Big Bang, birthers, California, Dred Scott, equal protection, film, Fourteenth Amendment, Haiti, Harold and Kumar, Inception, marriage equality, music, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, physics, Proposition 8, Republicans, science, the Constitution, the cosmos, Wyclef Jean
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Gerry Canavan 
Is it a rule in physics that any theory that accounts for the origins of the universe has to include as many outlandish ideas as possible? “Shu’s theory holds that, as the universe expands, mass and time get converted to length and space, and then this conversion happens in reverse when the universe enters a period of contraction. The universe then becomes a neverending cycle of expansion and contraction, an eternal cosmos without beginning or end.” I will, alongside Stephen Hawking, bet you a dollar that this is theory is false.
Alex
August 5, 2010 at 11:17 am
In re: Dred Scott and 14th Amendment. Bush is not exactly a prominent public figure these days, but I don’t see him coming out and saying “Repeal the 14th Amendment.” The kind of platform that Bush ran on in 2004 would make him a traitor to today’s Republicans.
Alex
August 5, 2010 at 11:29 am
re #1: I will, alongside Stephen Hawking, bet you a dollar that this is theory is false. That’s true of nearly any scientific conjecture! Unfair bet.
re #2: I agree — in retrospect we find that Bush and Cheney were holding back the previously unsuspected wave of Islamophobia that now grips the right. At the same time, Matt Yglesias makes a good point here:
gerrycanavan
August 5, 2010 at 11:33 am
I was more getting at the fact that I don’t think it’s fair to accuse anyone of hypocrisy here (cowardice or opportunism, maybe, but hypocrisy, no). It may be useful for rhetorical purposes to lump “Modern Republicans” under the same heading (just like Republicans lump liberals all under the same heading – anyone to left of Milton Friedman is a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist), but it doesn’t really hold any water. In other words, if /some/ Republicans believe that the 14th Amendment should be repealed and /some/ Republicans believe that Dred Scott was wrong, there’s no logical contradictions (unless it’s the same people believing both).
With the physics thing, it wasn’t just that any scientific conjecture is likely to be false. It was, rather, that any scientific conjecture that’s just a theoretical elaboration of the Hindu Vedas is likely to be false.
Alex
August 5, 2010 at 11:59 am
There’s even a post about the “No Big Bang” theory at badphysics.wordpress.com: https://badphysics.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/nobang/
Alex
August 5, 2010 at 12:02 pm