Warning! This column has nothing to do with Marzipan, and never was scheduled to discuss this outdated confection of ground almonds, egg whites and sugar. The name was just a placeholder. What the OO wants to talk about is the concept of mathematical elegance, and the related low level of public discourse and argument in the United States, and indeed in Anguilla, as well as the rest of the world. Let us start with elegance. An elegant proof is one which is short, convincing and sparse to the point of beauty: "Scientific exactness and precision" says a dictionary. That is what is lacking in the recent U.S. Congressional so-called debates about any subject whatsoever, and also lacking in the e-mails sent to the OO by the faithful supporters of the Bush-Cheney foreign adventures and attacks on the Constitution. It is also, we regret to say, lacking in some communications from Faithful Readers who don't read what we say. May we continue?

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