At 10:20 PM Monday 10/27/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: > > > Mostly that was just a weird story that leaves you going "Huh?", but > > false analogy is used a lot. One of the best ones was popular some years > > back, before the Republican party descended into outright criminality. > > It goes like this: "The government is just like a family, it cannot live > > beyond its means." Many people who gave the outward appearance of > > intelligence bought into this one, but it fails at the outset. The > > government is not just like a family. In fact, one could search far and > > wide and have trouble finding two institutions more unlike than a > > government and a family. Apples and oranges are identical twins when > > placed next to governments and families. And yet many people focused on > > the second part of the statement, while ignoring the fact that the > > premise was stupendously wrong, so wrong that it should have invalidated > > anything that followed after it. > >And I see "identical twins" in there, and wonder, "Monoamniotic?" > >I should probably head for bed now.... Isn't that how your interest in such matters got started? ;) . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
