Q. What’s the difference between Mitt Romney and an Etch-a-Sketch?
A. You don’t have to shake Mitt Romney.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com View all posts by Mark Kleiman
or, Romney will shake himself.
But I want to shake Mit Romney
The blank slate of Etch-a-Sketch isn’t quite right. Romney’s more like Adobe Flash Player, that constantly needs to download updates of itself; or a gadget that installs new firmware. In a way, he’s a human Turing machine: imagine an infinite paper tape… Cue for joke about a reverse Turing test.
In between shakings, an Etch-a-Sketch has a continuous line.
Apparently you CAN’T shake Romney. He’s as persistent as a plantar wart.