Yes, it has come to this: reporters, at CNN no less, who have studied calculus. In an article on the impending departure of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, we have the following:
Kelly’s highly criticized handling of the [likely wife beater Rob] Porter controversy was an inflection point in his tenure ….”
For all you English majors out there, “In differential calculus, an inflection point, point of inflection, flex, or inflection (inflexion) is a point on a curve at which the curve changes from being concave (concave downward) to convex (concave upward), or vice versa.”
So who was it who unleashed calculus, and gosh-darned differential calculus at that, on the American people? Was it you, Kaitlan Collins? Or you, Kevin Liptak? Or you, Jeff Zeleny? Or you, Jeremy Diamond? Or you, Sarah Westwood?
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For the record, I do know a little bit about calculus, and sort of know what an inflection point is, but I don’t need one shoved in my face while I’m eating breakfast.
Also for the record, I found John Kelly marginally, but only marginally, better than his boss. To save myself some time, I’ll simply reprint a short, link-filled piece on Big John, and fellow four-star Marine blowhard (in all senses of the word) Jim Jones:
John Kelly, making us all miss Jim Jones. He only told Jew jokes.
John “Stars n’ Bars” Kelly just won’t shut up, will he? Jennifer Rubin, WashPost “Right Turn” gal turned brilliant and incisive critic of the continuing madness of Donald Trump’s Washington, nails John’s racist, lyin’, Robert E. Lee statue huggin’ four-star ass to the wall, enumerating John’s fœtid inanities in detail and especially remarking on “his Trumpian disdain for truth and arrogant refusal to acknowledge error, as well as a shocking lack of compassion”, which I would describe as equally Trumpian.
John, in his ham-handedness, reminds me of another Marine four star who was a disaster in the White House, Jim Jones, President Obama’s first national security advisor, who made a quick exit after kicking off a conference held by the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy with a Jew joke that would have made London Lee gag. The thing is, John is a lot less funny than Jim. A lot less funny, and a lot more scary.
