Zandar's Thought Of The Day

John Cole reminds us of the Kung-Fu Monkey Theory of Crazy (aka The Twenty-Seven Percent Solution) that basically states that with all other political variables being essentially equal, about 27% of the voting public will pick the completely effing insane option every single time.

Once again, that number keeps coming up.

The Supreme Court has again rejected an appeal from a "birther" proponent questioning the citizenship of President Barack Obama.


The justices Monday turned aside without comment a request for a rehearing of various claims, after dismissing the original appeal in late January.

The long-shot petition by Gregory Hollister had called on Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to withdraw from considering the constitutional claims, contending a conflict of interest by the president's two high court appointees.

Lower federal claims had dismissed Hollister's claims.

And what's so important about this?  As John Cole points out:

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll in July found that 71% of Americans believed Obama definitely or probably was born in the United States, while 27% said he definitely or probably was not. The sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The larger the population sample, the closer the crazy option gets to that equilibrium point of 27%, most famously Bush's final approval rating.  If you take eleven random voters, odds are three of them are covered in a thin layer of tinfoil.

New tag:  Twenty-Seven Percent Solution.