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Useless Physics Cartoon — May 11, 2009

Why the hat? I'm a free meson.

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  1. Jason says: May 12, 2009 @ 4:12 pm

    This is good news for John McCain.

  2. davidsd says: May 12, 2009 @ 4:20 pm

    Why’s that?

  3. Jason says: May 12, 2009 @ 11:41 pm

    I was per­pet­u­at­ing an inter­net meme spawned dur­ing the Pres­i­den­tial elec­tion when con­ser­v­a­tive web­sites would attempt to spin bad poll num­bers as some­how being good news for John McCain by ref­er­enc­ing ear­lier Pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates who had won despite being behind in the polls. This behav­ior gave rise to the meme of com­ment­ing on any neg­a­tive news arti­cle as being “Good news for John McCain.”

    Here, I carry the meme one step fur­ther into the realm of the absurd. Kudos to me!

  4. Jason says: May 13, 2009 @ 11:17 am

    I’ve been pre­oc­cu­pied all day about whether the last com­ment made my ear­lier remark seem com­pletely random.

    This fails to give me enough credit: first of all, there was the fact that the car­toon itself is labeled as use­less — it would seem that noth­ing could be fur­ther from help­ing John McCain than a physics car­toon, but espe­cially an epony­mously use­less one — this is the first irony in my com­ment! Sec­ond, there is the ref­er­ence to the free masons, an orga­ni­za­tion which through­out his­tory has been allegedly involved in var­i­ous polit­i­cal con­spir­a­cies. So my com­ment sug­gests with­out mak­ing explicit a num­ber of con­spir­a­to­r­ial ratio­nal­iza­tions through which John McCain’s polit­i­cal influ­ence arose due to the free masons, or the com­ment could be inter­preted iron­i­cally, as sug­gest­ing that in fact Obama is the ben­e­fi­ciary of polit­i­cal con­spir­acy on the part of secret soci­eties, a sug­ges­tion made all the more amus­ing by its absurdity.

    Also, this com­ment only makes sense if dis­played against the back­ground of Dinosaur Comics.

    [that last sen­tence is the last frame, and this sen­tence is the sen­tence that appears if you scroll over and keep your cur­sor on the comic for long enough]

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