A school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International
airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a
protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he
believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.
He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with
carrying weapons of math instruction.
“Al-Gebra is a problem for us,” the Attorney General said. “They derive
solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off at tangents in
search of absolute values. They use secret code names like ‘X’ and ‘Y’
and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns’ but we have determined that they
belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates
in every country. As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, ‘There
are 3 sides to every triangle.’”
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, “If God had
wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have
given us more fingers and toes.”
White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent
or profound statement by the president. It is believed that another Nobel
Prize will follow.