This is certainly a necessary step, but it is very far away from an intelligent system.
I assume that any intelligent person will see this cartoon for what it is and does not come away from it thinking anything about Italians, good or bad.
In truth, our affluent, establishment Democrats can no more be budged from their core dogmas – that education is the solution to all problems, that professionals deserve to lead, that the downfall of the working class is the inevitable price we pay for globalization – than creationists can be wooed away from the tenets of "intelligent design".
All this is not to take away from Bush as an intelligent and capable man who was a solid governor in Florida.
It didn't drive an intelligent public away from classical music by itself, but it helped.
It's an art with just enough science to it to make it possible for a very tiny percentage of bettors to take money away from the herd of less intelligent, or less disciplined, bettors.
If not embarrassment, perhaps, then, it's denial and the idea that "it won't happen to me" keeping otherwise responsible and intelligent adults away from this particular threat to public safety, health and wellness.
The individual starlings do not spread, but rather move as an intelligent flock, feinting away from diving birds of prey.
Indeed, they excel precisely because their makers have turned away from the quest for a system intelligent enough to read and summarize a book or sustain a general conversation.
Many are, particularly those about politics or pop culture, but creating controversy is not essential to the genre: As will be seen below, many blogs about evolution are intended to provide information, steering away from the controversies over creationism and intelligent design.
