I really don't have the experience to say that this this true or not. Anyone else?

Tommy, I don't know if you can characterize a whole nation like that. i have friends on both ends of the spectrum, ones that can debate passionately for the sake of debate and not take any arguments personally (one of them is actually American by birth, even if he's Canadian bred) and others who take even the slightest disagreement personally.

I'm not mentally fast on my feet enough to enjoy debates, so I usually stay out of them.

Interesting blog post:

What's your favorite example of quantum chicanery?

By "quantum chicanery," I mean somebody using the language of quantum theory to make wildly unrealistc promises of magical results. Examples abound-- Bob Park got several months' worth of "What's New" out of some guys who claimed to be able to generate free energy by putting hydrogen in "a state lower than the ground state." My personal favorite was a guy I heard on a talk show (I was stuck in an auto repair place) claiming that the secret to eternal life was to simply concentrate on measuring yourself to be healthy and happy, which would collapse your wavefunction into that state.

Someone posted this on homeopathic stuff: [link]

Introduction: Within the developing theoretical context of quantum macroentanglement, a mathematical model of the Vital Force (Vf) has recently been formulated. It describes the Vf in terms of a hypothetical gyroscope with quantized angular momentum. This enables the Vf's state of health to be represented in terms of a "wave function" derived solely from secondary symptom observables produced in response to disease or homeopathic remedies. So far, this approach has illustrated the biphasal action of remedies, resonance phenomena arising out of homeopathic provings, and aspects of the therapeutic encounter.

OK.

Dude needs a Star Trek series to write technobabble for.

I had no idea that the serial comma was thought to be old-fashioned. I think it is just, you know, correct!

tosses editorial glitter over lisah

I embrace the apostrophe in this sort of situation only when it makes things clearer, as in "There are 6 I's in the first clause of this sentence."

gets some on Teppy too.

From The Onion: This Is The Point In The Blow Job Where I Have To Be Careful What I Say

My coat is out for delivery! I hope that I will be able to pick it up this evening.

I guess he has made up something called the Vital Force, then made up the property that the VF acts like a gyroscope that quantum states of angular momentum (just means the angular momentum can only change in small steps not smoothly), somehow got a wave function out of this angular momentum (no idea how), and determined that this function somehow relates to a wave function of disease symptoms (what the hell?) and since this relates to a wave function of homeopathic effects (what the hell?) provides a mechanism for how homeopathy works. That's going pretty far down the rabbit hole trying to prove that water cures disease.

not to mention that some beer drinkers are, you know, WOMEN

Sweet girl, women may drink beer, but they don't like it. They just do it to make men happy. Or because their boyfriends pressure them. Or because they don't respect themselves because their fathers were distant and stuff.

Is it ironically funny to anyone else that the city assessor couldn't find her way out of my freaking office?

IME, Mr. Fry is right. But maybe I know lots of candyasses.