House of Eratosthenes

Thomas Sowell is quoted in The Smallest Minority, hat tip once again to Gerard. Now there’s a triumvirate of terrifical-ness…you already know this is going to be good.

Peter Robinson: If you had a sentence or two to say to the Cabinet assembled around President Obama, and this cabinet holds glittering degrees from one impressive institution after another, if you could beseech them to conduct themselves in one particular way between now and the time they leave office, what would you say?

Thomas Sowell: Actually, I would say only one word: Goodbye. Because I know there’s no point talking to them.

Schwing!

Thing I Know #183. When an education has given you the ability to dismiss ideas more quickly, it’s not really an education.

Thing I Know #263. The one thing that’s wrong with higher education that nobody ever seems to want to discuss, is that it is valued through something called “prestige.” Get this prestigious diploma. Get that prestigious degree. Attend a prestigious university. My alma mater is more prestigious than yours. Trouble is that genuine learning has very, very little to do with prestige. It is, arguably, the exact opposite.

Mm hmm. What can you say to a roomful of tax cheats, gun grabbers (Eric Holder in particular), racists, assorted socialists? Do we get to include Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod in this hypothetical conversation? Every last one of them needs to be fired, right before Jug Ears himself admits defeat, confesses he knows nothing about leading a nation, and steps down.

They’re as corrupt and incompetent as Obambi.
- cylarz | 02/12/2010 @ 01:25
Ooops. I just realized if Mister Wonderful steps down, we’re stuck with Gaffe Maker Biden, and then, San Fran Nan. D’oh!

There I go again with the multiple comments in a short period of time, eh? I always seem to forget to include some tidbit and have to post again in order to complete my thought.
- cylarz | 02/12/2010 @ 01:26
Tbh, I’d rather have Biden as POTUS because he is just incompetent whereas Obama is malignant. Not saying Biden would be perfect, it’s that a bumbling fool doesn’t cause as much damage as a determined wrecking ball.
- KG | 02/12/2010 @ 11:51
That is a pretty interesting dilemma.

I’m really reluctant to call anybody stupid, or smart for that matter, if I haven’t known them for awhile though. Biden just might be smarter than Obama. We’ve already seen with Palin that people who obviously are very accomplished and have a lot going on, can be presented effectively as quite thick and uneducated if it serves the interests of those doing the presentation. Now, obviously they don’t want to make Biden look like a big dummy, but still just because he comes off that way doesn’t mean he really is.

Obama, I must say, I’m starting to wonder about Him. The evidence that He’s just a typical lifetime-spent-in-college, lightweight-with-some-parlor-tricks is just stacking up and stacking up. And I’ve yet to see a single instance of the only honest test of intelligence, which is the independent solving of some kind of a puzzle. Yes, He can come up with an opinion; He can speak it; He can make it sound very well researched and enlightened, to someone listening who is of vapid intellect. It is the verity of His opinions. It seems to me His decisions are correct just about as often as what would be produced by random chance, and even worse, that He knows this and doesn’t really care. He conducts himself like a typical spoiled rotten communist law professor, a tenured one, one that has spent a lifetime being insulated from cause-and-effect. The kind of guy with lots of books on a bookshelf and a gargantuan vocabulary, but that you really, really wouldn’t want watching your house over a weekend, or would even trust to plug an electrical appliance into a wall.
- mkfreeberg | 02/12/2010 @ 12:05

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