Today's post, Explaining vs. Explaining Away was originally published on 17 March 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Apparently "the mere touch of cold philosophy", i.e., the truth, has destroyed haunts in the air, gnomes in the mine, and rainbows. This calls to mind a rather different bit of verse:
One of these things
Is not like the others
One of these things
Doesn't belong
The air has been emptied of its haunts, and the mine de-gnomed—but the rainbow is still there!
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