One is bemused, hearing hoarse
throats howling about a … server, and
following with, “Lock Her Up!”
This time last year, few of them could even have told a server from a
servomechanism, or a serviette;
but now the word is waved like a bloody shirt. Why such uproar?
To answer the question, the
meta-research division of the World of Dr Justice (headquarters: Geneva) swung into action, using our
unique Spatio-Temporal TravelerTM
(Patent pending) to check out the data in parallel universes (a key precaution
this year, since much of the electorate now inhabits an alternate universe
year-round). And it turns out --
the mob was right! Heinous Hillary
is guilty of horrendous crimes, in every single universe we examined !!
Here are our findings.
(1) Alternate Universe #3794008
In this universe, instead of having
a law degree, Mrs Clinton earned a Master’s degree in English, before
eventually running for the highest office in the land. Her campaign seemed to be going
well, until one evening a
policeman making the rounds in Rock Creek Park, came across a dangling participle,
lying beside a stream as though it had been strangled. Forensics identified the sentence it
had come from, and traced it back to one of Mrs Clinton’s secret speeches to
Goldman Sachs.
Armed with this evidence, the
Bureau was granted a warrant to seize all of the candidate’s communications
dating back to college;
investigators were literally figuratively struck dumb at the masses of split
infinitives, it’s instead of its, “contact” used as a verb, and many
other infractions against the basic decencies of English grammar.
Editorialists fulminate; Republicans demand a special
prosecutor. And an angry mob
gathers outside her Park Avenue hotel, calling for her blood. Suddenly she steps forth upon the
balcony of her suite, glares down at them, and snaps:
“This
is something up with which I will not put!”
“Shall not -- shall
not!” retorts the furious crowd.
(2) Alternate Universe
#497-668-5571
In this universe, Mrs Clinton is in
her first term as President, when a bombshell breaks into the headlines. Back when she was five years old, she
borrowed a book, My Cuddly Bunny, from the kindergarten library… and did
not return it on time. Nor indeed
did she return it later that year … or the next year … or the next … or indeed,
ever!
Impeachment proceedings began
immediately, under the slogan:
Thirty
years of political experience --
Sixty-five
years of crime !
A sampling of planets on which Hillary is guilty as sin |
(3) Alt-alternate Universe “Betelgeuse Bleu”
In this universe, Hillary Rodman professionalized as a
mathematician before meeting her future husband, one William Clinton, a
vicar. Dr Rodman is nearing
the end of her seventh term as President, preparing to take over as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, when a careful examination of the “long form” of
the dissertation that earned her a math Ph. D. reveals that she once asserted the integral of the limit to
equal the limit of the integrals, without
first assuring uniform convergence!
An assault upon the most sacred principles of Real Analysis.
Thunder in the pulpits; the
Security Council is convened. A
bloodthirsty mob floods the streets of Washington and performs a series of outrages -- taking derivatives at
singularities , dividing by zero, and using a Banach-Tarski maneuvre to
disassemble Mrs Clinton and re-assemble her at half her former size.
[Update, Halloween 2016] Our colleagues at the Pyesetz Institute for Cosmic Research have explored this issue in some even more elaborate universes:
http://pyesetz.livejournal.com/140986.html
Thus, the results of our own research division have been independently replicated.
[Update, Halloween 2016] Our colleagues at the Pyesetz Institute for Cosmic Research have explored this issue in some even more elaborate universes:
http://pyesetz.livejournal.com/140986.html
Thus, the results of our own research division have been independently replicated.
[Upshot] And so we have our theorem:
Thm. Any transcosmic functor that leaves
Hillary fixed, fixes guilt.
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