{"id":11064,"date":"2008-03-28T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/03\/28\/11064.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:14","slug":"risibility-and-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/03\/28\/risibility-and-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Risibility and Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gentle Readers who listen to really good NPR stations will find Charlotte Green’s voice familiar, although they might not have heard it quite like this<\/a>.
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This is the sort of news that gets into me all slantwise. I come away from it not thinking How unprofessional Charlotte Green was at that moment<\/I> but hunh, I’d expect that sort of thing to happen all the time, imagine how professional you’d have to be for how long for this to be news<\/I>.
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Similarly, the news from the New England Genealogical Society about how all the Presidential Candidates are distantly related to famous people<\/a> reminded me how great it is that for all the political dynasties, political participation at the top level really isn’t restricted to the Forty Families. John McCain has only one great-great-great-great-grandparent in common with Laura Bush, and none with Our Only President, and that doesn’t disqualify him from office. Even the incredibly well-connected and dynastic Hillary Clinton shares no great-great-grandparents with recent presidents, nor great-great-great-great-grandparents, either. She does have one great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent in common with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Barack Obama is more closely connected with our countries powerful, being connected to nearly everybody through one or another great-great-great-great-great-great—look, isn’t it obvious that there’s no Debrett’s here?
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Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger gets hold of the wrong end of the stick and beats around the bush with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18310,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions\/18310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}