Ellington

This post over on DailyKos tickled the crap out of me. Hunter writes about how members of the erudite and cultured wingnut blogosphere are going after the winners of the Nobel Prizes to, basically, prove that lefties are trying to take over the world. Of course, they don't take two things into account: (1) that they are tucked so far into the far right corner terrified and intimidated by anything they don't control that all they can see is them damn liberals and (2) maybe the folks they're hanging out with just aren't smart enought to win big awards, because they're too busy being afraid of anything that isn't them.

Anyway, Hunter's post is hilarious. Check it out.

See, I just don't understand this. Rightwingers make it a point to be both anti-science and anti-intellectual, so it hardly takes an, er, rocket scientist to figure out why righties don't typically win the awards. What, did they really think the Discovery Institute was in the running this year, for their condemnation of every major scientific advancement of the last four hundred years in favor of the theory that Adam and Eve milked dinosaurs and sold the resulting DinoCheese in Cain's chain of God*Mart retail outlets?

"Well, this year we were going to give the award to these guys whose work made possible the complete mapping of the human genome, but these other guys have some really good artists' renderings of Noah waving at a stegosaurus. So let's call it a draw."

Then, he quotes one of the lefty-hunters:

Nobody takes this stuff seriously anymore. I can't remember the last time I read a literary novel by a living writer or attended a play by a living playwright.

Chortle. Hunter then closes with:

Um… ‘kay. I guess scraping the crust from between your toes takes a lot of time, but I'm not sure taking public pride in your own self-enforced social illiteracy is really the best kind of attention to attract to yourself.

Sigh. I'm such an "elitist".

Tee, hee.