Bjorn Tipling

Slate’s Fred Kaplan has a great essay on smart people saying idiotic things about Palin:

In an uproarious essay, Gaffney wrote that Palin had learned more about foreign policy than Obama and Biden “by osmosis,” because Alaska lies “along the trajectory of ballistic missiles launched eastward out of Stalinist North Korea.”

This strikes me as unlikely. I live under the flight path of nearly every domestic flight that lands at LaGuardia and JFK. Yet that random fact doesn’t supply me with the slightest wisdom, by osmosis or some other mystical means, about the operations of the airline industry.

I recommend this read. Go quick, read it now, while your boss isn’t looking!