Brad DeLong links to ScienceBlogs.com coverage of the State of the Union address. He uses one of my favorite rhetorical methods: the phrase “and a pony.”
So, yeah, “double the federal commitment to the most critical basic research programs in the physical sciences over the next 10 years” sounds great. So does “If we reverse the polarity on the flux capacitor, we can generate an infinite amount of free energy, and a pony.” I’ll believe it when I see the pony.
Secretly Ironic 