Cow Tipping

Interestingly I found the following two items on the appropriately named Huffington Post on the same day:

'White House in Chaos' & Other Utter Horse****

and

Cow-tipping myth hasn't got a leg to stand on

Somehow they seem related. Of the first article, it might be said that a liberal just glimpsed that arrogance is expensive. Politics about money? Say it ain't so, Joe. Makes you wonder what they thought it was about. It's about big cigars, and...uh, well, maybe Bill wasn't quite as naive as the rest. They're pretty angry. I guess I would be angry too if I had this nagging suspicion I'd been had by someone I've equated to Alfred E. Neuman. "Get your hands off of me you damn, dirty ape."

Speaking of, the latter article makes one wonder what science is about:

Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, and her student Tracy Boechler have conducted a study on the physics of cow-tipping.

Ms Boechler, now a trainee forensics analyst for the Royal Canadian Mounted Corps, concluded in her initial report that a cow standing with its legs straight would require five people to exert the required force to bowl it over.

You would think science would have more important questions to answer, like how it's going to remain in the public school curriculum. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Thankfully in this instance its the Canadians hard earned tax dollars at work. We don't have Mounted Corps in the good ol' US of A. Just the general public.

Like recipes for explosives and schematics for nuclear bombs, I worry about such material being made so freely available by modern technology. Knowledge can be dangerous in the hands of the wrong people. Fortunately only three bubbas fit in the cab of most pickups. On the other hand, who says they're all riding up front?