Kathryn chastises me for mentioning cloaking devices in defiance of a certain ban. But! by mentioning it herself she violates her own ban. Now — stick with me as I wax Talmudic — since Kathryn is the all-powerful goddess of the Corner, the violation of her own ban is much like the old conundrum “can God make a rock so heavy even He can’t lift it?” It creates an impossible contradiction at first glance. But — aha! — Kathryn’s mention of the cloaking devices lie deep within parentheses. Since she mentions cloaking devices — a direct reference to subjects banned in this space — inside these parentheses, perhaps she sees these symbols as cloaking devices of a sort themselves. Much like the “null-space” or “nullentropy bins” in the Dune, Marvel and other sci-fi universes, the normal rules of the Corner do not apply withing these other-dimensional pockets of the multiverse. Or for non-sci-fi types think Maxwell Smart and the Cone of Silence. Anyway, perhaps the famed (Star Trek) ban doesn’t apply within parentheses. These parentheses are actually portals to (anti-matter universe) spaces where writing about banned topics (like Star Trek) is not only allowed, but required. Perhaps future posts could look like this:

PAUL KRUGMAN… [Jonah Goldberg]
Has an absolutely absurd column about social security private accounts (but not nearly so absurd as the fact that the seats on the Enterprise don’t have safety belts. I mean these guys are flying at many times the speed of light and they’re constantly being tossed out of their chairs. Isn’t there some sort of United Federation of Planets OSHA which would require chair restraints of some kind?). Krugman completely fails to understand the fact that the changing demographics …. blah blah blah

See what I mean? Huh, do ya?