I don't agree that it's fallacy of composition, if you mean generalizing about the whole based on judgment of the few, because the article was not saying all Republicans are anti-science, but that the party is selecting pretty anti-scientific individuals to represent itself. Of course, politicians have to nominate…

You still missed my point. I was pointing out that there is no irony because a blog article isn't supposed to be scientific. In fact, it would be incredibly boring if it was written like a scientific research article. One doesn't have to write a scientific article to have the opinion that someone else is…

Great post. I was raised Roman Catholic and I'm well aware that many of history's most famous philosophers and scientists ("natural philosophers") came from the Church. The idea that all knowledge of the world was written in the Bible 2000 years ago is absurd. Some of us like to believe that the amazing complexity…

I wish you could be promoted a million times, PinballFan. I'm surprised that there are a lot of commenters who do not see the connection between politics and technology.

Definitely. Even if most Republicans aren't anti-science, it appears as though it is the "Official Party Position" to disagree with various scientific tenets.

No, it's an opinion piece; it's not supposed to be a scientific article in the Journal of Blogorific Excellence.

I was waiting for the part where she adds a disclaimer stating that she asked permission from her date to write an article listing his name and describing their encounter, but it never came.

My knees are wrecked from sports and too much stage-diving in my teens/early 20s. If there's an awesome cyborg knee that comes out by the time I'm retiring and it will keep me out of a wheelchair, I say sign me up in 50 years!

Looks like the AP and the Washington Post are also using the same spelling. Even NPR is writing it that way: [www.npr.org] . Maybe the translation of his name from the Arabic script into English is inconsistent?

I dunno. It's not like VB is Super Classy City either.

Meh, I stand by it not being entirely serious since she clearly says such in the article and offers it as a hypothetical set of reasons. I found it amusing, and, no, I'm not a smoker.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it was about the cost.

Sadly, a lot of commenters take posts that are meant to be satirical or tongue-in-cheek way too seriously. Me, I'll either laugh or just move along to another post.

In my experience, I'd have to say that art school dropouts have impressed me much more than the art school snobs who have made it all the way through.

Yeah, I'm pretty liberal and also non-white, and this doesn't offend me whatsoever. Not to say that I speak for all non-white people, but my Racismdar™ usually works pretty well. I gotta say, this doesn't compare to some of the 2008 "monkey" political cartoons or the "baby mama" reference on tv back then.

But then we wouldn't have been amused by the voyeurism of it all.

This article was a little bit awkward for me to read about a kid so thoroughly embarrassing himself after being outed publicly by the author, but I'd be lying if I said that I didn't enjoy the voyeurism in it. I'm glad this was posted if only to amuse me. Yeah, I'm a dick.

Doubtful. I was under the impression that court costs are rarely recoverable in the U.S.

Watched a BBC series from 2008 on Netflix the other day (pretty current, right?) and thought, "Well, now it looks like they're intentionally trying to maintain the stereotype."

Ah, ya beat me. My comment was going to simply be, "Florida."