Fixed.

Didn’t she write those books about the Objectivist wizard school?

It disgusts me that in a nation where a tool that should only be used to keep the truly powerful under the constant reminder that they, too, are human and subject to human frailties and behaviors, some on both the right and the left should choose to wield such a tool against their fellow citizens.

Fuck ‘em. I call scorched earth on these white holes of anti-reality nonsense.

Oh, Wendy Long and Matthew J. Franck have this angle covered at Bench Memos. Sort of.

It disgusts me that in a nation where a tool that should only be used to keep the truly powerful under the constant reminder that they, too, are human and subject to human frailties and behaviors, some on both the right and the left should choose to wield such a tool against their fellow citizens.

I didn’t like it when Michaelangelo Signorile did it to actors and actresses who were closeted. I did like it when he exposed politicians and government officials who held people’s lives and livelihoods in their hands.

Now, you could make the case that publius, writing for an obviously popular blog, assumes a mantle of quasi-publicity, much like Digby had before she unmasked herself.

And maybe that would be the strongest argument for outting publius. It is, however, still wrong. The default position anyone who feels the urge, whether they are on our side or theirs, to expose someone should be, don’t. Not unless they’ve taken it upon themselves to seek the publicity like Markos or John Aravosis or any number of bloggers who regularly appear on the TeeVee or radio.

The troll is gone. This one’s a parody.

I’ll admit I gave it just one treat much earlier. I don’t know why anyone really bothers, there’s no argument & barely any automatic gainsaying going on. (Not that I visit for arguments.)

Everyone here knows all the answers (that’s not really the word, as there’s no actual question, in most cases) to anything it regurgitates.

Hell, I’m almost to the point of calling for a ban (no good w/ the library hopping?). And those pasted things from American Dumper really should be deleted ASAP. Hamsters don’t grow on trees.

“It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.”

Oh, and much as I hate Noam Chomsky for his destruction of linguistics–he stands head-and-shoulders above any “intellectuals” your side can muster. Remember your Great, Unquestionable Leader is Rash Limprod.

Liberals have no “jealousy” towards William F. Buckley. We’re simply tired of insane right-wing ideologues like him or Barry Goldwater being treated as some kind of Elder Statesman simply for the accomplishment of getting old. We all do it. It doesn’t prove you were right all along.

But then of course Goldwater, who would have ended all life on earth in a nuclear holocaust if he’d had his way, would now be considered a RINO as well.

I think your patented up-on-the-backstroke technique has sucked out what little brain you originally possessed.

As in deciding whether to adjudge each wingnut troll’s methodology and debating style against merely dismissing them as a collective idiocy?

Hey, numbnuts: William F. Buckley was a mental midget who just happened to buy a thesaurus. Just because he intoned words of which neither he nor you had any idea of the meaning while sticking his tongue out like some kind of fucking retard, does not remotely make him “one of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century.”

He was, however, one of the most batshit insane sociopaths that has ever darkened our national discourse. And he’d be drummed out of the GOP now for being a “far-left liberal.”