{"id":1951,"date":"2004-01-15T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/15\/al-gebra-cult-zombifies-nations-youth\/"},"modified":"2004-01-15T18:11:49","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T22:11:49","slug":"al-gebra-cult-zombifies-nations-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/15\/al-gebra-cult-zombifies-nations-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-gebra Cult Zombifies Nation&#8217;s Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2304'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"430\">\n<p><strong><font size=\"+1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/algg.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"306\" align=\"left\"><\/font><\/strong>At New York&#8217;s Kennedy airport today, an individual<br \/>\n            later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying<br \/>\n            to board a flight<br \/>\n            while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide<br \/>\n            rule, and a calculator.<\/p>\n<p>            At a morning press conference, an official said he believes the man<br \/>\n            is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is being charged<br \/>\n            by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.<\/p>\n<p>            &quot;Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,&quot;, he said. &quot;They desire<br \/>\n            average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on<br \/>\n            tangents<br \/>\n            in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like &quot;x&quot; and &quot;y&quot; and<br \/>\n            refer to themselves as &quot;unknowns&quot;, but we have determined<br \/>\n            they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with<br \/>\n            coordinates in every country. &quot;As the Greek philanderer Isosceles<br \/>\n            used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle,&quot; Ashcroft<br \/>\n            declared.<\/p>\n<p>            When asked to comment on the arrest, he said &quot;If God had wanted<br \/>\n            us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given<br \/>\n            us more fingers and toes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>            &quot;I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that<br \/>\n            it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing<br \/>\n            to<br \/>\n            disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love<br \/>\n            to inflict plane on every sphere of influence,&quot; he said, adding: &quot;Under<br \/>\n            the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point,<br \/>\n            and draw the line.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>            He warned, &quot;These weapons of math instruction have the potential<br \/>\n            to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen<br \/>\n            unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in<br \/>\n            random facts of vertex.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>            He said, &quot;As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here<br \/>\n            is one principle he is uncertain of: though they continue to multiply,<br \/>\n            their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks&#8230;.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/utterlyboring.com\/archives\/2004\/01\/14\/those_damn_algebrateaching_terrorists.php\">UtterlyBoring<\/a>        (thanks<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/makeoutcity.com\">Jay<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At New York&#8217;s Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/15\/al-gebra-cult-zombifies-nations-youth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}