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It's a rare thing to see, even when the manure is flying thick and fast, as it often does in the realm of politics, for example.
But it's remarkable in its rarity and therefore, possibly, worth pointing out.
As you recall, in a Double Bogus lie, I'm pressed to explain F but I talk about G instead. And even if I do a good job of explaining G, my explanation is irrelevant, because it doesn't explain F. On the other hand, and maybe even more important, it shows that I am unwilling to talk about F.
A Triple Bogus Attack has all these characteristics, but in Triple Bogus, my "explanation" doesn't really explain G, either!
If you look at Triple Bogus as a tactic, with a dispassionate, logical eye, it's astonishing that anyone would ever try it.
From this point of view, Triple Bogus is reminiscent of a dragonfly or a bumblebee, where you look at the parts and then you look at the whole and you say to yourself, "That will never fly!"
But every now and then, you see one going by, and it flies just fine -- or at least it seems to.
Quite a remarkable little animal, as I was saying, and we will talk more about it later.
