I normally do not just stop like that, however the dig was so out of left field and so wrong it hit me like a cognitive segfault. If the sentence had been more germane to the topic at hand I probably would have continued on (though far more skeptical of the author's other points) but it was just too out of place for me to let slide.

Fair enough, I think he did it as comic relief in his writing, give it some break and relate to his audience.

> cognitive segfault

That’s a nice simile.