One of the dangers of geek humor is that the setup often requires more labor than, say, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” or “A U.S. Senator walks into an airport bathroom ....”
Naturally, Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is anxious to demonstrate the point.
But therein also lies one of the hidden treasures of geek humor. Complicated setups offer myriad thematic variations, digressions, and mutations. To wit, it might occur to someone considering the proposition of ten-thousand iterations of a metaphorical argument about reality, somewhere in there reality itself invented the Republican Party.
Do away with science, and there are no more arguments about reality, metaphorical or otherwise.
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Weiner, Zach. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. 25 November 2014.
Abrams, Lindsay. “House Republicans just passed a bill forbidding scientists from advising the EPA on their own research”. 19 November 2014.
Marcos, Cristina. “House passes bill to limit EPA ‘secret science'”. The Hill. 19 November 2014.
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