Switching sports to baseball: I've always liked Bryce Harper's comeback:
"The 19-year-old Washington Nationals outfielder quipped, 'That's a clown question, bro,' to a Toronto TV reporter who asked if he planned to take advantage of Canada's lower drinking age after belting a long home run in a win over the Blue Jays. "(from ESPN, 6/13/12)
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TORONTO -- Bryce Harper's comebacks look ready for the big leagues, too.
The 19-year-old Washington Nationals outfielder quipped, "That's a clown question, bro," to a Toronto TV reporter who asked if he planned to take advantage of Canada's lower drinking age after belting a long home run in a win over the Blue Jays.
The cultural differences between professions are really hilarious, because what you introduced as a fallacy to be gently drilled out of 101 IR students (and I agree with you) seems to me to be a substantial load-bearing assumption underlying much of American law and government, and one which intellectuals and scholars will generally uncritically exacerbate. I mean basic civics education in the United States honestly appears to be primarily focused on drilling this kind of fallacy *into* students. Matt Yglesias has had a fun time documenting its efflorescence within the leftwing non-profit complex. Once you see it and isolate it as a concept, it's everywhere all the time. Someone ought to write the book on it!
Switching sports to baseball: I've always liked Bryce Harper's comeback:
"The 19-year-old Washington Nationals outfielder quipped, 'That's a clown question, bro,' to a Toronto TV reporter who asked if he planned to take advantage of Canada's lower drinking age after belting a long home run in a win over the Blue Jays. "(from ESPN, 6/13/12)
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TORONTO -- Bryce Harper's comebacks look ready for the big leagues, too.
The 19-year-old Washington Nationals outfielder quipped, "That's a clown question, bro," to a Toronto TV reporter who asked if he planned to take advantage of Canada's lower drinking age after belting a long home run in a win over the Blue Jays.
The cultural differences between professions are really hilarious, because what you introduced as a fallacy to be gently drilled out of 101 IR students (and I agree with you) seems to me to be a substantial load-bearing assumption underlying much of American law and government, and one which intellectuals and scholars will generally uncritically exacerbate. I mean basic civics education in the United States honestly appears to be primarily focused on drilling this kind of fallacy *into* students. Matt Yglesias has had a fun time documenting its efflorescence within the leftwing non-profit complex. Once you see it and isolate it as a concept, it's everywhere all the time. Someone ought to write the book on it!
The fallacy being that wins and losses matter more than the process?
It's in much of American life in general.