{"id":2654,"date":"2004-02-05T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2004-02-05T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T16:53:15","slug":"d-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/05\/d-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"D & Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think reading this paragraph (from a New Republic article about the Democratic primaries<\/a>) provides a pretty definitive geek test:<\/p>\n

As a result, the only way Edwards catches on is a) if Kerry makes a huge mistake; b) if Edwards manages to stick around long enough for the press to savage Kerry; c) if Dean draws blood against Kerry with all those $100 donations he’s planning to turn into rhetorical RPG attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Real men immediately recognize “RPG attacks” is a reference to rocket-propelled grenades.<\/p>\n

Guys like me, on the other hand, first summon a mental image of Dean sitting at a table, acting out a fiery denunciation of Kerry, and then rolling a 20-sided die against his CHR attribute.<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/b>: By my reckoning, the stats work out to be about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Howard Dean<\/p>\n

STR: 11
\nINT: 13
\nWIS: 9
\nDEX: 10
\nCON: 12
\nCHR: 13<\/td>\n

Wesley Clark<\/p>\n

STR: 14
\nINT: 12
\nWIS: 11
\nDEX: 12 (-4 when trying to dodge questions about his platform)
\nCON: 14
\nCHR: 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

John Edwards<\/p>\n

STR: 10
\nINT: 13
\nWIS: 10
\nDEX: 12
\nCON: 10 (+2 for Forehead of Perpetual Youth<\/i>)
\nCHR: 13<\/td>\n

John Kerry<\/p>\n

STR: 10
\nINT: 13
\nWIS: 13
\nDEX: 9
\nCON: 10
\nCHR: 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think reading this paragraph (from a New Republic article about the Democratic primaries) provides a pretty definitive geek test: As a result, the only way Edwards catches on is a) if Kerry makes a huge mistake; b) if Edwards manages to stick around long enough for the press to savage Kerry; c) if Dean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}