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	<title>Comments on: Useless Physics Cartoon</title>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
		<link>http://davidsd.org/2009/05/useless-physics-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-130</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;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&#039;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]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve been preoccupied all day about whether the last comment made my earlier remark seem completely random.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Also, this comment only makes sense if displayed against the background of Dinosaur Comics.</p>
<p>[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]</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
		<link>http://davidsd.org/2009/05/useless-physics-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-126</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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 &quot;Good news for John McCain.&quot;

Here, I carry the meme one step further into the realm of the absurd.  Kudos to me!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.”</p>
<p>Here, I carry the meme one step further into the realm of the absurd.  Kudos to me!</p>
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		<title>By: davidsd</title>
		<link>http://davidsd.org/2009/05/useless-physics-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-124</link>
		<dc:creator>davidsd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why&#039;s that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why’s that?</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
		<link>http://davidsd.org/2009/05/useless-physics-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-123</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is good news for John McCain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is good news for John McCain.</p>
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