Brad slanders everyone and everything, including himself.

“ 1.4 ≅ 1 ” and “ 2.8 ≅ 3 ”; so, for sufficiently large values of 1
and sufficiently small values of 3: “ 1 + 1 ≅ 3 ”.

P.S. My public radio station, KUOW, had a segment on Sagan today.
Sagan has/had a lot of friends in Seattle, it seems. Quoting KUOW.ORG:
“ Carl Sagan taught the importance and impact of
  bringing science to the masses to Cliff Mass.
  
  Cliff is an atmospheric sciences professor at the Univ. of Washington.
  His weekly weather forecasts are heard on KUOW. 
  Cliff first met Carl Sagan in a college classroom. ”.