I followed the link over to Nordlinger’s page, and, damn, why the fuck would anyone bother to rattle the guy’s cage? Nothing worth even spitting on. You’ld expect even people who are obvioulsy wrong to have strung together some at least beginning of an argument, or point of view, that might conceivably fool others, and is therefore worth at least deconstructing into something worth spitting on, even if you have to do all the work just to get it into something substantial enough to even despise. But I read this Nordlinger’s random musings as long as I coud stand, and couldn’t locate a pulse to stop, or even a place to drive in a wooden stake. Leave poor little Jay aloooone! Please.

I know, I know. However dumb, the argument goes, organs like the NatRev have, or at least recently had, enormous power in shaping the debate, etc. Well, I don’t buy it. This crap succeeded 99% because of lack of competition, and only 1% because of how powerful it was to influence people’s minds. It’s like political commercials. A bunch of weak crap, which even on its own terms as advertising, wouldn’t get people to buy bar one of soap. It seems so powerful in deciding elections only because there’s no real discourse out there competing with it. The idea that anyone could ever be influenced to do anything by Nordlinger’s Impromptus but take a nap is ludicrous.

Fuck, at least our grammar is correct!

Der Rosenkavalier starts with 2 chicks in bed, one of them pretending to be a dude. Opera is HOT.

Does it involve nordlingus?

but at least I’m not a bald goofball with the vapors, so it all works out in the end

You, sir, have now crossed over the line!

WOLVERINES NAKED MOLE RATS!!!!!11!!

Thanks … it would rule much less hard if it weren’t true … yet the world would be just a little bit nicer if it were rhetorical baloney.

Paradox, irony, Zen-Dadaism or Gorgonzola?
I retort – you decide.

Nordlinger’s commie prof. disdained liberals as do conservatives. Thus, conservatives are a bunch of commies. That conservatives are considered right wing and commies leftists is in fact central to my point.

It’s like the time I took my daughter to a restaurant (while my wife was having her hair done). For some reason they were playing a scary movie on the TeeVee (or actually some stupid Disney version of a scary movie on the TeeVee, but certainly still something we wouldn’t let our daughter watch at home). So what did my daughter do? She complained about the movie on TeeVee and how she wasn’t supposed to watch it and didn’t want to watch it. Did she just ignore the movie though? Of course not … she stared at it and then complained about how scary it was.

And I know that my daughter is good enough at ignoring my wife and I … so it isn’t as if she is incapable of ignoring stuff. So why did she stare at the movie even if it was something she clearly found disturbing? Well … because she’s 4 and that’s how 4 year olds act.

So what’s Nordlinger’s excuse for acting like a 4 year old?

Holy shit that rules.

You got computer chips? Luxury! Castro just sends a guy with a bat to my house, and he breaks my ankles if I haven’t kept up my quota.

It was a fucking tiger, man!

You have to fight for these things, year after year, decade after decade, century after century. The socialists and collectivists never rest, never let up.

We can’t rest or let up. If we try to, Kim Jong-il activates the computer chips he implanted in our cerebral pain centers.

To think: I was naiver enough to believe that this part of the shorter was completely made up.

Holy fork – he writes like a cat with severe earmites.

Oh, I’m stealing that—but my cat is very offended, I’ll have you know.

That’d make a great song title.