Goldbergian

Dear Jonah: In your "Liberal Fascism Still Leaves a Mark" you posted a term your detractors apparently have used, but which I had not yet heard: "Goldbergian"!!!

National Review Online 2010

With your permission, I'll henceforth call myself a "Goldbergian" when discussing progressives/moderates/liberals/socialists!

National Review Online 2010

What struck me first was the gadgetry, contraptions of Rube Goldbergian scale that allowed the inventor to write with the aid of hydraulics, steam, and ink he pumped into the device with footpedals.

More Steampunkery Still! wendigomountain 2009

Properly seen, the GM bailout is but a Rube Goldbergian necessity conditioned by previous Rube Goldbergism inflicted on the car makers for 35 years.

GM, Chapters 1 to 10 2010

Should the Rube Goldbergian cap-and-trade proposals be replaced with a simple carbon tax, with proceeds to be allocated to alternative-fuels development?

Obama Needs to 'Reset' His Presidency 2009

It's getting airier, subtler, distressingly less Rube Goldbergian: No fewer than four extant network shows — Heroes , the soon-to-return Lost , and two newcomers, Life on Mars and Fringe — involve some form of time travel minus any obvious chronos-crunching machine.

Scott Brown Rails Against Machineless Time Travel 2008

I wonder how Rube Goldbergian you can get with your crayon-drawn gadgets.... benrum

Crayon Physics Deluxe « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008

Two minutes later, after a staggering, Rube Goldbergian chain reaction involving 85 car parts and no trick photography, a Honda Accord wagon rolls off a ramp, ending one of the coolest car commercials ever made.

Advertising: For Want Of A Nail, The Car Commerci 2007

But the point is, Bushes tax team * should* have been sent off with a bold mission to completely (and courageously) reengineer a Rube-Goldbergian mess, and instead they came back with a cowardly plan to add a grommet there and remove a widget here.

Pfffffft « BuzzMachine 2005

The lift system sounds unlikely as described, and it looked quite Rube Goldbergian in diagrams.

Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane 2002