Theorem: The worthiness of a blog post on a political or social topic is inversely proportional to the number of times derisive nicknames are used to refer to the author's opponents.
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I try to call someone a racist once, at the beginning of a post, then let them prove me correct by quoting them after that.*
*This may not apply to all, or maybe even any, of my political posts.
Chad "Bumbling Doofus" Orzel ought to restrict his theories to physics. I'm uncertain whether Dr. Doofus actually knows anything about physics, but it's a certainty he knows more about physics than about politics.
How's that?