Huh.  Interesting.  

I occasionally read Noam Chomsky for light entertainment, but don't recall this particular observation.

Dr. Chomsky has always struck me as one of those baffling individuals who are genius-level in their particular area of expertise - but once *outside* that area, are so astonishingly bereft of common sense that they would have trouble figuring out how long to boil a 3-minute egg.  0_x