On Feb 27, 2013, at 12:58 PM, c b wrote:
>>
>> As far as I can tell a certain indication that a post is nonsense
>> or worse
>> is the presence in it of the assertion that one can walk and chew
>> gum at the
>> same time.
> I am unaware of the age of this particular aphorism, but it has gained
> tremendously in popularity in the last few years. Democrats trot it
> out every Obama orbit to admonish us that we must vote for the
> bankster-boy as well as continue on with struggles related to labour,
> gender, identity, so on issues. The expression never fails to grate on
> my nerves. My standard response to the call has become: well yes, you
> have certainly proved that you can chew gum and walk backwards at the
> same time.
> CB: Consistency is the Hobgoblin of small minds, infantile left minds.
An even more indicative stupid cliché. (and even Emerson, that fatuous philistine, was awake enough to say "foolish consistency!")
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64