Peak Wingnut

While I agree with Blue Gal's plea:

Have we reached bottom on stupid candidates yet?

I thought about it for a while and realized that the stupidity of the rightwingnut parade is a concept much like infinity in relativistic physics.  Noise is the energy in the equation, we can substitute p for mass, and stupidity will be the colossal idiocy.

That leaves us with N=ps² in this bastardization of Einstein.  As Bubblegum Tate put it a couple of weeks ago at Balloon Juice:

Peak Wingnut is a decent idea as long as you further explain that it can only be approached in perpetuity but never actually arrived at.

Since we can barely visualize the scope of s, we have to wrangle some equations.

If we look at this way, s²=N/p.  Since s is already infinite, squaring it barely has an effect past blowing our minds completely out of our Euclidean reality.  p, however, is a limited number - normally referred to as the 27%s.  Being a known number and for the formula to work, N has to increase greatly.

So the more "true believers" there are making a whole lot of noise in the process, the stupidity level naturally follows the curve up.

It's simple, really...

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