Comments on: Hope Gloats

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:00:33 +0000

Gads, rooming with a pack of non-liberal engineers? What sin were you atoning for? Based on the juvenile hijinx I saw around the office(s) I worked at, I have to ask if beds were perpetually short-sheeted and toilet seats always covered with Vaseline and Saran Wrap.

The liberal engineers I worked with were fun, athletic, and open-minded; the rest of the pack? Not so much.

By: MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel

MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:05:50 +0000

String, that was an extremely gratifying comment. I roomed with a pack of said non-liberal engineers for awhile at college. What a nightmare. However, I did enjoy sharing a “literature of journalism” class with a pack of techies who were taking it to satisfy their breadth requirement. How they howled at having to, you know, read stuff. And analyze it! WTF?

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:54:43 +0000

Ahem. Last paragraph: replace the first “the” with “that”.

Thank you.

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:53:43 +0000

For some reason the non-liberal engineers I worked with always saw themselves as the absolute top of the academic achievement pile. I’ve always found it entertaining how these civil engineers felt that their admittedly tough technical education put them a few notches higher than actual scientists.

I was involved in a water law case where the idea the the hypothesis was created and then data sought to make it true (and anything that didn’t agree was ignored) was at issue; the engineers never could grasp the intellectual and scientific bankruptcy of that approach. Did not compute, ever.

By: TheRealityBasedDave

TheRealityBasedDave — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:58:22 +0000

she is everything Obama is not

Thank FSM!

Palin is not ashamed of her culture or country.

Then why is she giving aid & support to a secessionist group?

Unassisted by affirmative action,…

I did not know she is an opressed minority!

…more Americans will come to this realization and elect McCain/Palin in a landslide.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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By: DrDick

DrDick — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:38:48 +0000

As I tell my intro to anthropology classes, anyone who believes in “Intelligent Design” either has no respect for the designer or knows nothing about biology.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:10:30 +0000

These are the guys that drive Pharyngula’s PZ Myers to distraction: They think that engineers are superior to biologists, and that the complexity of life forms means that they had to have been “designed” by a “Designer”. Myers smacks them down with great regularity.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:07:43 +0000

I thought that’s what some of the more excitable lefties were saying.

By: StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop

StringonaStickformerlyMakeItStop — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:17:44 +0000

The PhD who taught the petroleum geology and related topics at my old school was also a Mormon bishop, so we used to razz the hell out of him on field trips with regard to the Mormon creationist ideas and his understanding of geology. His answer was that some aspects of theology are meant to be analogies, which is more honest that what has issued from the geo-wingers ever since. At least he was a good sport about it, though he never won any souls for Moroni out of our bunch either.

When I was a geologist I worked in consulting engineering firms; the ratio of liberal to conservative engineers per company ranged from 1:10 to 0:everyone. My dad’s an engineer too, and his level of wingnuttery is approaching the level where it will soon be hard to tell dementia from too much Limpballs. These are a few of the things I really don’t miss about that field of employ. Well, that and the laying off 1/2 the staff in each recession; that got a bit old as well. It may have been worth seeing all those winger engineers have to eat it the day after Obama’s victory though…

By: MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel

MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:11:33 +0000

When I got to the factoid that Sarah Palin was “unassisted by affirmative action,” THAT’S when I snorted Diet Coke into my lap and all over my knitting. No s**t Palin didn’t qualify for affirmative action in any department, except Upscale Clothes Shopping, Hair & Make-Up, and Accessories. Also, Obama is “vapid”???