Monday, January 9, 2012

Wombat's Laws: Science Marches On

Several years ago, I advanced the Wombat Law of Homophobia: the louder and uglier the speech, the more likely closeted. Recent experimental results from the Large Bullshit Collider (LBC) suggest a wider perspective is necessary. In the spirit of scientific inquiry, I submit the Wombat General Theory of Bloviation: the louder, more certain, more dogmatic and more intolerant the bloviation, the more likely hypocrisy or denial/projection are at work. The key experimental observation made my my colleagues at the LBC imply that hypocrisy and denial may, in fact, be two manifestations of the same fundamental particles, dubbed 'coprotrons'...

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

i.e. "Methinks thou doth protest too much".

Marilyn said...

Quelle fromage.....et domage! Batarde!

Marilyn said...

oops....comment for the fortunate son

ProfWombat said...

Applies well to this one, too, alas...

Most of the things I try to say that Shakespeare covered, he, er, did better...

Anonymous said...

Still bears repeating.

ProfWombat said...

If you're going to steal, steal from the best...

therealhellkitty said...

This is the inverse law of Bullshit.