>Well, we just elected an elitist as president, by a substantial majority.
Well, we elected an "elite" president, not he same thing as being eletiest -- unless being raised by a single mother and grandmother, earning a scholarship to college and working your way through Harvard make you an "elitist" but being born a millionaire and getting into ivy league schools on your father's influence (Bush) or being the son and grandson of Admirals and marrying a multi-millionaire (McCain) makes you just plain folks. There is a different between being elite -- well educated, skilled and intelligent -- and being an elitist. I think its pretty clear which of our politicians fall under which label. >I'm wondering what the Conservapedia people are doing with the >recently raised possibility that atomic decay rates vary with solar >activity. I had the same thought about the rate of atomic decay. I haven't looked it up on Conservapedia yet. Olin ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Arnett<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 9:38 AM Subject: Re: On Topic shocker! On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Olin Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >This is starting to sound like Asimov's Meritocracy branch of power. > > But how would a Meritocracy play in a time when even pronouncing the names > of foreign countries correctly gets you labeled an elitist? The Right has > sold America on the idea that anyone with a good education and the ability > to think critically is an "elitist" who couldn't possibly understand the > problems of soccer moms and joe six pack. What would they think of a > council of scientists, most of whom probably believe the earth is more than > six thousand years old and even in *gasp* evolution? Well, we just elected an elitist as president, by a substantial majority. Meanwhile, I'm wondering what the Conservapedia people are doing with the recently raised possibility that atomic decay rates vary with solar activity. I couldn't help immediately imagining somebody using that idea to show that the earth really is only a few thousand years old. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l<http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
