“So Bobby Jindal makes fun of ‘volcano monitoring’, and soon afterwards Mt. Redoubt erupts. Susan Collins makes sure that funds for pandemic protection are stripped from the stimulus bill, and the swine quickly attack.
“What else did the right oppose recently? I just want enough information to take cover.”
Krugman: Master of the non sequitur.
I didn’t think you liked Krugman that much, Ephraim.
Quoting the from link you provided: “a conversational and literary device, often used for comical purposes … It is a comment which, due to its lack of meaning relative to the comment it follows, is absurd to the point of being humorous”
By golly! I think you may be right.
A ‘dismal scientist’ doing stand-up? I completely missed it.