To get back to the thread topic, I'd like to pose a question:

Why shouldn't bunnies be our rulers? Sounds like a fair argument to me.

Because kittehs won't have it. Duh.

I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence - the defense or the deflection of our ego in our knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves - to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.

What the fuck ever, Steven Hawkings!!1

Seriously. It's Steven Hawkins.

Steven B. Hawkins, to be exact. Let's not erase her from pop music history. DAMN!

James Hawkins, as in Jim lad them what dies be the lucky ones, arrgh arrgh.

Did somebody say Hawkens?

It's Hawking, as in:

'Twas a joke.

Hatchet Harry is no joke.

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:Thong of all the fun we can have with those twelve digits!

I was on my phone and I was out for a late lunch, drinking beer.

I don't wear thongs. I don't even own one.

Look Spino.... she's even telling you she'd not wearing underwear now! You're in for one helluva Xmas!

Spinozasgalt wrote:AND IT'S "CHIPS" NOT "CRISPS", FALLIBLE.

Of course it's 'chips' - they're the things you eat with fish!

These comments are all well and good, but the problem is that they don't speak to the lack of bunny rulers.

Why would you ever attempt to measure something with a rabbit anyway? they are notoriously uncalibrated.

As Melissa Lane says, "modern attacks on Plato and Platonism cannot be understood without seeing them in the context of [Nietzsche’s] heavy-handed assimilation [of Plato] to Kant, an assimilation which confuses our understanding of both."

Neither bunnies nor ducks make ideal rulers.

The ideal measuring device is the hippo, allowing the skilled user to simultaneously measure length, width, depth, displacement volume - and, if one simply gets the hippo to sing, also pitch and yawn.

Of course, this last requires a bored hippo - but they generally are by the time you get through with them singing. It is absolutely worthwhile, though, as no animal yardstick yet developed can measure a yawn as widely and accurately as a hippo.

I don't want a leader who behaves like this.