Posted on 08/14/2023 9:54:48 AM PDT by DFG
The current issue of Wired magazine carries an interview with our wonderboy secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg. And here’s the long introduction to the Q & A portion, and by god this should be read aloud at cocktail parties for the rest of the year as it is comedy gold:
THE CURIOUS MIND of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve. Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointillist data that is his current stock-in-trade, the US secretary of transportation comes off like a Mensa black card holder who might have a secret Go habit or a three-second Rubik’s Cube solution or a knack for supplying, off the top of his head, the day of the week for a random date in 1404, along with a non-condescending history of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
As Secretary Buttigieg and I talked in his underfurnished corner office one afternoon in early spring, I slowly became aware that his cabinet job requires only a modest portion of his cognitive powers. Other mental facilities, no kidding, are apportioned to the Iliad, Puritan historiography, and Knausgaard’s Spring—though not in the original Norwegian (slacker). Fortunately, he was willing to devote yet another apse in his cathedral mind to making his ideas about three mighty themes—neoliberalism, masculinity, and Christianity—intelligible to me.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Did the reporter swallow at the conclusion of this ‘interview’?
Is the reporter implying that Buttigieg reads the "Iliad" in the original Homeric Greek?
Regards,
May 18th issue of Wired
LOL...what a great turn of phrase! What imagery!
his father was a renowned marxist scholar
that use to be a disqualifier
now a cv enhancer
the commies own the dem party
Yes; then he threw up and swallowed it again.
There’s a joke there somewhere about taking it in the apse.
OMG. The entire interview in the magazine, the film noir pics are as bad as the intro. This guy is their latest Barack. You have to read it to believe it.
Bunch of $2 words in a 50 cent head.
CC
Petey couldn't spell Rubik's Cube, let alone solve one.
LOLOL...truly you made me laugh out loud. Great one. Thanks.
another apse in his cathedral mindSo he's a bishop who has domed walls in his head. Fascinating.
Of course, Brandon has spent his fifty years in "government service" utilizing brain power he does not possess.
Butt his anus can.
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