People think I'M smart, but what about THIS guy?

Joel Fleming writes an insightful post about the emotionally draining experience of sitting through Political Science tutorials in most Canadian universities... (one of the main reasons I decided to become a history major) He's 18 years old, just like me, and he has a disturbingly sharp mind. I'm jealous. And just so everyone has a more representative measure of his grasp on Canadian society, check out this post as well.

Allow me to share my favourite poli-sci tutorial moment: After I went on a rant about something... I forget exactly what, there was a moment of silence, after which the TA said "Woah, you sound just like Donald Rumsfeld", and really, who wouldn't want to sound like Donald Rumsfeld?

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. - Donald Rumsfeld

Update: Someone just told me that because our blog templates are identical, they get confused over which blog they're reading. I'll take that as a compliment.