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“But in a semi-darkened Washington D.C. theater Wednesday night, 62-year-old Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour pleaded with a crowd of about 300 conservatives not to get ahead of themselves. “A month is a light year in politics […],” Barbour said.”
— Jon Ward, 09/10/2010 (dailycaller.com)
Sorry, Haley. A month may be lots of things to lots of people in lots of different contexts. But, one thing a "month" is NOT, under any circumstances having physical reality, no matter what your definition of "is" is, is a "light year".
A month is a measure of elapsed time. A light year is a measure of distance, namely the distance light travels in one year (at the speed of light, natch), viz.
1 light year = 9.46 trillion kilometers = (0.3 million kilometers/second)(31.5 million seconds)Mixing metaphors is almost a sport in politics, but mixing units of measure is always wrong, at least in the physical sciences. Nevertheless, considering that political science is far from being a physical science (some would call it the "deplorable" science), perhaps it's allowed.
Post 1,413 Run that by me again?
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