Lest you get swept up in all the sympathetic furor over the Scripps National Spelling Bee, remember that there are plenty of valid reasons that geeks get beat up.

Take, for example, Charles Elachi. When asked to justify the Cassini Saturn probe's 3 billion dollar price tag, he said, "The objective ... is very simple: It's to allow us to rewrite the story of the lord of the rings."

Give a bunch of geeks 3 billion to spend, and you're pretty much inviting that kind of snide, self-righteous dorkiness. We should be glad they didn't spend it on fuckable android versions of Erin Grey.

Analogcabin @ 11:14 AM
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