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Secrets Of A Professional Writer Revealed
I don’t know what got into me. Perhaps it’s the cold and gray weather here today in DC. But the next thing I knew I was wandering around Pajamas Media, clicking on the blogroll, when I hit pay dirt. Well, rather I hit a big lump in the dirt named James Hudnall. Hudnall is a “professional writer with over 20 years of experience.”
“Wow!” I thought. This guy must write real good. And he do.
So, Sadly, No!sers, today we are going to have a master class in writing, taught by Mr. Hudnall himself, and if you pay close attention, you too can be a Pajamas Media blogger. Let’s start with a post he calls “Scary,” a title that carefully and subtly signals that liberals are the subject of the post:
The day will come, someday in the future . . .
One hallmark of a professional writer is, of course, that he frequently repeats himself. Repetition is the secret to good writing.
. . . where they will look at the people of today and think they were crazy.
Ambiguous pronouns are also frequently used by professional writers. They encourage confusion.
Kind of like we do looking back at Nazi Germany or the Spanish Inquisition.
“Crazy” is surely the word that comes to mind when I think of the Nazis and the Inquisition. Well actually “wild and crazy.”
Maybe this is not as bad . . .
But it’s still close enough to compare to the Nazis.
. . . but the very idea of calling CO² a pollution . . .
A secret trick of the trade used by professional writers is to substitute words — like “pollution” for “pollutant” — if the first six letters are exactly the same.
. . . when it’s a natural process of nature . . .
Remember that repetition is your friend, as in “natural process of nature.”
. . . is nothing short of wacko.
Now, as Mr. Hudnall amply demonstrates, a good writer does not simply have to say something well; he also has to say something intelligent. And that Hudnall certainly does. Who could possibly disagree with his point that Al Gore and all those other liberal global-warming boo-hooers are almost as bad as Hitler and Torquemada for failing to realize that if something like carbon dioxide is naturally produced then its okay to produce as much of it as we can? You know, like methane and carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide and wildfires and floods and sewage. Likewise, if eating one hamburger is natural, then eating five hamburgers is no problem at all. The possibilities here are immense.
UPDATE by Clif: Oh good grief. Hudnall wil just not learn. He posted a “reply” to our post in which he tries to defend himself and comes up with this astonishing example of wingnut science (including another reference to CO² — carbon monoxide squared):
Human output of CO² is minuscule compared to nature. A couple of volcanic eruptions can easily outdo all of the 20th century’s output.
Human activities release more than 130 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes–the equivalent of more than 8,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 3.3 million tonnes/year)! (Gerlach et. al., 2002)
But I suppose the United States Geological Survey has been co-opted by secret agents working for Al Gore and just made up these figures. . .
jim said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:34
jim said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:35
[ head explodes ]
tb said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:37
I are a riter to!
Some Guy said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:38
Daffodils are a natural process of nature. Go chew on a few.
Water is a natural process of nature, so go ahead and chug five gallons a day.
Hysterical Woman said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:49
20 years of placing the letters on the church sign does not make you a writer.
Moominpapa said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:49
And now the algebra lesson:
James Hudnall = stupid fat fuck
lame man said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:50
The possibilities here are immense.
And the options are large.
J— said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:52
The Spanish Inquisition: Unexpected? Yes. Crazy? No. Send in the nuns!
MrWonderful said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:53
“The day will come some day in the future where they will look at the people of today…”
Clif, you forgot to mention that if it’s good to use the word “day” once in a sentence, it’s three times better to use it three times, I say, three times, in the same sentence.
Also, referring to a “day” as “where” is a prime example of something who is good in a good way, which is good.
Nylund said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:53
Oh, oh! I wanna play this logic game too!
If C02 occurs naturally, then we can cause as much C02 as we want.
Therefore, if death happens naturally, then we can cause as much death as we want as well!
Yay! Killing sprees for everyone!
Naturally, this is the natural logic that naturally appears naturally from nature, and those disagreeing people who disagree are simply crazed people who are crazy like those inquisiting librul nazified inquistor nazis.
nightjar said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:54
I think the terrible wingnut writers are very bad.
Paddy Mac said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:56
“The very idea of calling Pantload a pollution…”, no that’s not it. “The very idea of calling Pantloaders ‘writers’…”, yeah, that’s closer.
Niles said,
November 11, 2007 at 0:58
“but the very idea of calling CO² a pollution, when it’s a natural process of nature, is nothing short of wacko.”
Well, then by that definition, what would be considered a pollutant? It sounds like you’d have to limit it to elements produced in laboratories by man. Because anything else is technically part of nature, right?
Of course, if we want to be charitable, we could agree that co2 is a [product of] a natural process of nature, such as respiration. But the CO2 that we’re concerned about is not a product of a natural process, it comes from driving, etc etc.
Good lord, why am I arguing with these people?
Dan Coyle said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:01
The day will come when James Hudnall finally finds an artist who doesn’t know he screwed his previous artists out of payment, and they’ll draw comics for him.
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:03
Magnificent.
Hudnall’s masterful reflections on the future bring to mind the stirring words of The Amazing Kreskin in the opening scene of the majestic Plan 9 from Outer Space a half-century ago:
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
I am proud that this great country has produced such great minds capable of such great thoughts in such a great country such as this. It’s great.
dan b said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:10
James Hudnall = teh awesome. Among his many works:
“Metallica. (1) 1993. Rockit Comics/Malibu. Art: Genre: Music/Biography. (Note: Only one issue of a three issue mini-series came out due to the band deciding they didn’t want a comic about them after all. They approved the scripts and art, but for some reason, they forced Malibu to cancel the series.)”
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:10
Oops - the Amazing Criswell, not the Amazing Kreskin.
I bet Kreskin wishes he’d thought of those lines first.
RandomObserver said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:12
Clearly James Hudnall is clearly more smarter than we.
Marita said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:20
. . . but the very idea of calling CO² a pollution . . .
The wingnut has confused me. Why is he squaring carbon monoxide?
Carl Sagan said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:24
Nuclear explosions are natural as well (see, e.g., the Sun; other stars, etc.) . . . Just saying.
J. Hudnall Althouse, Esq. said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:25
Whoever thought it was funny to use my name and funny likeness to post at this funny blog without my express permission will not be laughing when I sue your funny ISP into non-existence.
Gundamhead said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:28
Oh great, another wingnut “intellectual” who writes like he never graduated high school. What does it take to NOT get on Pajamas Media’s blogroll anyway?
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:33
One of Hudnall’s commenters complains about big government:
If that ever happened these poor guys would be bankrupted.
fluffybunnyfeet said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:34
“Oh great, another wingnut “intellectual” who writes like he never graduated high school. What does it take to NOT get on Pajamas Media’s blogroll anyway?”
Enough judgment, brains & maturity to score in a balk-line game, perhaps…
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:35
Word Warrior?
Bwahahaha! [Falls out of chair]
Smiling Mortician said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:37
James Hudnall is precious and special and I’ll cherish him from this point forward forever into the future because of his knowledgeable wisdom in terms of knowing things that he’s wise about, which is why I am absolutely in awe of his awesome awesomeness. Clif, I am really grateful that you brought him to our attention because I appreciate it and I can’t thank you enough.
J.H. said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:38
Shitting is also a natural process of nature, that’s why I do it whenever the urge takes me.
owlbear1 said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:38
Hey Jimmy, I got a natural process for ya!
Come here let me show it to you.
Ok now, open wide…
stogie said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:50
No, James, “a pollution” is what was on your bedsheets the morning after you watched the Hannah Montana marathon.
J.H. said,
November 11, 2007 at 1:51
Would it be wrong to call him Jabba the Hud?
dan b said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:00
“Would it be wrong to call him Jabba the Hud?”
to paraphrase Crazy Peggy Nooners, it would be wrong of us not to.
kiwihopeful said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:03
I hate to bring out the Billy Madison, but after reading through a couple of his posts, all I can say is:
“Mr. Hudnall, what you’ve just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent blog post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in the blogosphere is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
mat said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:06
This Hudnall, he ain’t just writin’ good, he’s also one heckuva scientist. Pay no mind to his confusion with subscripts/superscripts in his scientific notation; I mean, hey, Einstein was always fuckin’ that crap up too. Great minds can’t trifle with the petty placement of digits in equations whilst they are unlocking the magical mysteries of the physical universe.
Who’d a thunk these Pantload Media types were such polymathic wunderkinds?
What else can this tub of lard do? Talk to the dead? Play world class squash? Speak in tongues? Kick ass in Kung Fu? Cook like a master chef? My god, such diverse talent in one man!
He’s like James Bond, but fatter.
DEMIZE! said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:07
Yes,taxing farts,that is the logical extension of govt.regulating pollutants.This will of course occur in the famous”House of Farts”The mind it boggles.
Ann Althouse said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:09
James Hudnall is making sense.
M. Bouffant said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:10
20 yrs. of writing comic books for an off-brand publisher? Nice hair-do, fat boy!! Who could have suspected that the “New Media Paradigm” of Pantload Media would be semi-literate ignoramuses & links to the AP?
Now that I’ve connected to the thread, I heard on CNN that Troy Williamson will be paid for the game he missed to organize/attend his grandmother’s funeral. Way to go, Bradrocket, your bringing this to the nation’s attention turned it around!!
jcricket said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:15
Taxing farts. Sounds like a good plan to me. Think of all the bar stools that can provide greater service than acting as a foundation for many pounds of flab after a long day at work, or a longer day of unemployment. Counting meters can be attached to measure both frequency and toxicity.
Say! The next place Pantloads plans to have his “bloggers convention” should be bringing in some *nice* tax revenues if they can be outfitted with said meters before the convention.
Just musing a little bit here.
jcricket said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:16
Counting meters. Yes — I too, follow the first rule of good writing.
Syndicalist said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:16
The Word Warrior should sue for peace.
Candy said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:21
What a pig. And I”m not talking about his appearance,
Disclaimer: I’m extremely drunk. I’ve had a lot of whisky, and typing is challenging. But I was thinking about veterans day tomorrow, and the fact that some of the veteran’s groups who are hoping for peace and an end to this ridiculous war have been banned from the parades tomorrow: peace
Listening to Pearl Jam and feeling bitter. I think I should go to bed.
How long must she stand
Before the ground, it gives way
To an endless fall
She can feel this
War on her face
Stars on her pillow
Folding in darkness
Begging for slumber
I’m not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child’s eye
I’m not frantic
I can feel it coming
Violently shakes
My body
Her son’s slanted
Always giving her
the sideways eye
An empty chair where dad sits
How loud can silence get?
And mom, she reassures
To contain him
But it’s becoming a lie
She tells herself
And everyone else
Father is risking
His life for our freedoms
I’m not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my childs eye
I’m not frantic
I can feel it coming
Darling you’ll save me
If you save yourself
Click here to return to my Pearl Jam lyrics page
The lyrics are Copyright their respective owners.
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:23
“The possibilities here are immense.”
Are you people going to leave that sentence of words hanging suspended in the air like that?
The Disgruntled Chemist said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:33
C-O-squared? Wha?
He may be a professional writeificator, but he’s no scientician!
The Disgruntled Chemist said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:34
Shit! Marita said it like ten comments into the thread.
I suck and she is awesome and et cetera. Oops.
Marita said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:40
Disgruntled Chemist, I appreciate your declaration of my awesomeness, but I dispute your claims of self-suckitude. If this strange man is going to mangle chemistry so badly, I don’t think we can write enough comments mocking him. Everyone should be participating.
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:42
Ain’t it the truth!
Hudnall’s main area of expertise is climate science, but he also has extensive knowledge of maritime law, energy resource exploration, nutrition, European politics, nosepicking, and many other challenging topics.
Here are just a few of his many trenchant comments:
We are part of nature, therefore whatever we do is a product of nature and therefore, natural. There is no such thing as unnatural.
Whenever any kind of disaster happens, its easy to blame it on something.
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
And let’s be clear, there is a lot more land where human beings don’t live, then places where we are. More humans live in cities. Cities take up a small amount of land compared to everything else.
I could have found more of these, but my brain cells were shutting down fast.
The Disgruntled Chemist said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:42
Peer review works again!
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:52
So. The picture in the Blaaargh! (Snort) thread. That’s a shot taken during J the Hud’s colonscopy?
mdhatter said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:53
It’s sort of like drowning by drinking too much water.
Some Guy said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:56
You don’t really drown, mdhatta’. The water enters your system faster then your system can flush it out, and your saline levels get fucked to hell, and your cells shut down and rupture.
Linus said,
November 11, 2007 at 2:59
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
That was the very first thing that I thought of when I read that line.
MzNicky said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:00
Hey, I’ve been a professional writer for 21 years! Eat it, Hud-boy!
I’ve given “F’s” to better undergraduate writing students’ work than this steaming pile o’ errors.
Also:
Gundamhead wonders:
What does it take to NOT get on Pajamas Media’s blogroll anyway?
Talent? Intelligence? A sense of self-respect? Sentience? Decency? A smattering of knowledge about the world and how it works?
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:01
Ain’t it the truth.
Hudnall has vast knowledge not only of climate science, but also of maritime law, energy resource exploration, nutrition, European politics, nosepicking, and many other challenging topics.
Here are just a few of his many thought-provoking comments:
We are part of nature, therefore whatever we do is a product of nature and therefore, natural. There is no such thing as unnatural.
Whenever any kind of disaster happens, its easy to blame it on something.
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
And let’s be clear, there is a lot more land where human beings don’t live, then places where we are. More humans live in cities. Cities take up a small amount of land compared to everything else.
I could have found more of these, but my cerebrum was starting to shrivel up.
Sammy Hagar said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:02
Only time will tell if he stands the test of time.
Rightwingsnarkle said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:04
Remember - without chemicals, life itself would be impossible.
As for this Hudnut feller, perhaps a little writing contest is in order - kind of like that annual “Write Like Papa Hemingway” extravaganza.
1. Pick a topic
2. String words together into sentences; sentences into paragraphs; paragraphs into essays
3. Profit!
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:05
Hmmm. Some of my comments are getting filtered out. Maybe Hudnall has extraordinary cyber-powers I did not foresee.
Slippytoad said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:06
These homeschooled geniuses, they are cruelly bound by the abuttals of such lumpy constructs as syntax, grammar, and sentence structure. Their brilliance it shines through the constricting gaps in the letters of the words, that are but pale figments of the gossamer ideas in whose place they stand upon our crude mortal plane. Never let it be said that . . . aw, fuck it. The guy’s a bloated lump of goo. Maybe he’s smart enough to not choke to death on his cheetos.
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:14
(Let me try this a third time…)
Here’s a small sampling of Hudnall’s keen insights, from his blog archives:
We are part of nature, therefore whatever we do is a product of nature and therefore, natural. There is no such thing as unnatural.
Whenever any kind of disaster happens, its easy to blame it on something.
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
And let’s be clear, there is a lot more land where human beings don’t live, then places where we are. More humans live in cities. Cities take up a small amount of land compared to everything else.
I could have found plenty more of these, but my cerebrum was starting to shrivel up.
Marita said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:16
There is no such thing as unnatural.
Tell it to the judge, pal.
gbear said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:22
Hudnall sounds like he got his writing style from Criswell, the narrator of Ed Wood’s ‘Plan Nine from Outer Space’. Minus the wacky charm, of course.
Krassen said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:25
Oooops, I am afraid Sadly No! got punked here… This guys smells like a JonSwift/Colbert character. take a look at this from his blog, that can’t fureal:
I can’t help mocking science claims, either. First they tell us that electrons orbit a nucleus like a particle. Then they (de Broglie, among others) tell us that the electrons are like waves. What gives? My physicist friends tell me I should learn the math, just as my social science friends tell me that “studies,” not “science,” make tentative claims that can build toward consensus. But even Einstein was proven wrong on some issues– is Al Gore smarter than Einstein? That usually shuts my friends up.
Simba B said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:28
If he isn’t for real, aren’t Pajamas Media the ones that got punked then? Just sayin’. I mean, I don’t think they’ll find the humor in it that we would.
gbear said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:31
Ooops. I should have read down first. Snorghagen beat me to the Criswell comparison hours ago.
glorified jughound said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:31
I too wonder when the future people in the future where they look back to the past which is for us the present although when Hudnall wrote this is now the past and for the people of the future it’s the present when they look at the past whether they wonder how past people (i.e. our present) let people like Hudnall carry the day and didn’t think or act enough about the future enough to not let our natural processes of nature get ruined with natural chemicals produced unnaturally.
gbear said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:33
Argh!!! Now Krassen beat me to the Ooops. Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed.
InsaneInTheCheneyBrain said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:38
“That usually shuts my friends up.”
They stop talking because they’ve realized they don’t want to be your friend any longer.
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:39
That’s exactly what I used to think! But I was so much older then - I’m younger than that now.
gbear said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:45
I find farts to be taxing.
Linus said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:45
Of course, at this very moment we are in “the future,” relative to when Hudnall wrote his little musings. THINK ABOUT IT.
Jon H said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:48
“What does it take to NOT get on Pajamas Media’s blogroll anyway?”
The intelligence to not seek a place on that blogroll. Which is a very, very low bar indeed.
Gundamhead said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:52
“This guys smells like a JonSwift/Colbert character. take a look at this from his blog, that can’t fureal”
I don’t know, that really doesn’t sound any more stupid than quite a few supposedly serious wingnuts that have appeared on this sight. Frankly, unless they give you some sort of obvious hint, a parody of wingnuts is impossible to tell from the real thing.
Sammy Hagar said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:57
Of course, at this very moment we are in “the future,” relative to when Hudnall wrote his little musings. THINK ABOUT IT.
Where’s my atomic toaster?
Righteous Bubba said,
November 11, 2007 at 3:57
Sammy you ass.
glorified jughound said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:01
a parody of wingnuts is impossible to tell from the real thing.
The parodies will lack the required quotient of ‘bitter, miserable and creepy’.
ignobility said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:09
I think Hudnall is Pastor Swank’s illegitimate son.
Spartakus said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:09
i has a wurd prossesser for righting!
MrWonderful said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:13
Fluffybunnyfeet–
Maybe. But I say that any boob can a ball in a pocket. And I call that sloth.
MrWonderful said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:14
Shit.
Can PUT a ball in a pocket.
And I haven’t even started drinking yet.
Left_Wing_Fox said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:30
As both salt and water are vital to the human diet, I recommend James go on a steady diet of seawater. The truth of the fact that we think we believe this will be a good notion of an idea should be put to motion in the immediate now for future benefits in time.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:34
We are part of nature, therefore whatever we do is a product of nature and therefore, natural. There is no such thing as unnatural.
So if I tell Hudders to eat shit and die, it’s quite okay, because it’s natural? Kewl!
Whenever any kind of disaster happens, its easy to blame it on something.
Yah, of course. Our previous ancestors in years gone by blame god; we use science to work out who’s really at fault. The point here is…?
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
I speak here as President of the Endless Nimrod Benevolent Society, and I’m sure all the other Endless Nimrods will agree with me when I say, on behalf of my Nomrodian colleagues with whom I am in complete agreement, that we Nimrods, nay, we Benevolent Endless Nimrods…
Wait, what was I saying? Oh, yes. We Endless Nimrods will continue issuing our edicts, particularly about the dangerous danger inherent in the exceedingly danger-ridden poppycock and horsefeathers. Indeed, you’d be surprised at the damage a loose poppycock could do in the world. And there’s nothing we like better than issuing edicts. I could issue edicts all day long. The technical latin term for that, in latin, is Nimrodus Edictus. Who is a word that we techical latin Nimrods use.
And let’s be clear, there is a lot more land where human beings don’t live, then places where we are. More humans live in cities. Cities take up a small amount of land compared to everything else.
Indeed. And because our atmosphere (where we in the technical latin nimrod trade refer to as “air”) is sucked straight out of the ground, there’s plenty for everybody! Hurrah!
/knobheadedness, with a relieved swipe at the sweating forehead
Man, this is a lot harder than it looks. And I can’t even manage to carry off some of the more egregious crapperies. What must the inside of this guy’s head feel like?
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:35
What must the inside of this guy’s head feel like?
{Waiting for someone to say “squishy”}
Pablo said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:36
My woodwork doesn’t contain any nimrods. Are nimrods some kind of reinforcing material or something? I know they’re not a pollution, considering that wood is natural.
Simba B said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:37
It feels natural, Qetesh. Everything is natural, remember?
cokane said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:43
this guy is like a poorly written imitation of the Simpsons’ comic book guy
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:43
You…you don’t suppose cHudnall is a naturist do you? [shudder]
Love and Rockets said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:55
We are part of nature, therefore whatever we do is a product of nature and therefore, natural. There is no such thing as unnatural.
We are so going to sue his ass.
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:55
I’m afraid so. He likes to display his endless nimrod.
Matt T. said,
November 11, 2007 at 4:56
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
Hey, man, that’s not cool. My uncle died from inhaling horsefeathers. He never screwed around with poppycock, though he was bad to get into the balderdash from time to time. His wife died from acute flapdoodle. That was sad.
And Krassan, this guy reads like half the letters that are published in the Athens Boner-Herald. Apparently, “Scientists think they’re such smarty britches, but Einstein believed in God shooting craps or something like that, and anyway, you can’t ‘measure’ love, which scientists don’t do because they don’t believe in it, so therefore global warming is a fraud for scientists to get stinking, filthy rich off grants” is considered a good argument for your average Conservative And Thus Real American.
And for what it’s worth, I only have 18 years’ experience as a writer, but that’s only if you count the last three years of not writing, which I haven’t (much). So let’s say 15, which is natural and, thus, within nature and part of the natural process, naturally.
RobW said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:00
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
I have no words for this. I want to engrave it on a plaque.
gbear said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:03
I wonder if he thinks teh gay is natural, not that I want to find out…
Some Guy said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:07
Describing the war as a battle between “light and dark,” Bush said, “If you kill people to achieve a political objective or to advance an ideology … you are nothing but evil. …”
*head/desk* *repeat as needed*
DEMIZE! said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:10
Enough horsefeathers and poppycock and your farts would be taxing as well.
g said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:13
What’s wrong with Poppycock?
g said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:14
And I like the idea of, if something’s natural it’s not pollution.
Shit’s natural too, so we don’t need to worry about sewage spills.
DEMIZE! said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:20
Oxygen is natural,fire is natural.I suggest he try combining the two right away.Call it an experiment.
Ex-Fed said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:22
The great triumph of the wingnuts is that they have rendered it impossible to distinguish between real wingnuttia and parody of wingnuttia. Satire has been killed, revivified, and re-killed more times than Jason or Freddy Krueger — and no more prettily. I mean, really — if your friend was writing Pantload’s columns as a joke and asked you to review them, wouldn’t you say, “No, dude, you’ve got to make it WAY more subtle?”
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:25
g wrote:
Damn! That’s a real product.
If I remember correctly, the word ‘poppycock’ comes from a Dutch phrase that means something like ‘mashed shit’.
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:28
Maybe at some point soon in the not too distant future Gay Patriot will investigate and perhaps inquire about the question to whit: Is cHudnall’s nimrod at all responsive a poppycock?
When GP has completed his finalized study of the query the people of tomorrow will look behind them at the people back there on the day before Tuesday and wonder at the marvels of a past that did not include questions about cHudnall’s penis propensities.
And then, they will have a drink of the fermented ale beverage called beer.
Just like me.
Me said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:30
but the very idea of calling CO² a pollution, when it’s a natural process of nature, is nothing short of wacko.
I hear tell that marijuana is a “natural process of nature”, naturally speaking. I wonder how fucknozzle feels about legalizing it?
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:33
And let’s be clear, there is a lot more land where human beings don’t live, then places where we are.
This is a valid point. If we all stood in one place, we would only cover the surface area of Zanzibar, leaving a lot of land which is not Zanzibar. I learned this from John Brunner so it must be true.
The only trouble is that I don’t want to go to Zanzibar. How about if we all stand somewhere else instead? Party at Mikey’s place!
FlipYrWhig said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:41
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
It’s like a prim Victorian gentleman after a snifter of absinthe. And about a month of huffing industrial soot off chimneysweep lapels.
ignobility said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:44
Party at Mikey’s? I’ll bring that natural product of nature mentioned in the previous comment.
gbear said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:54
‘Maybe at some point soon in the not too distant future Gay Patriot will investigate and perhaps inquire about the question to whit: Is cHudnall’s nimrod at all responsive a poppycock?’
I think one of the tests they’ll have to run is the balderdash.
Some Guy said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:55
“Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.”
Why would game hunters have edicts?
g said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:01
OK, y’all. I just had an awesome meal this afternoon.
Seems that after Katrina, many displaced residents of the Louisiana and Texas gulf coast who happen to be Vietnamese immigrants moved - quite logically - to other Vietnamese-American communities in the US, bringing their cultural heritage with them.
And so Orange County, CA has suddenly blossomed with examples that embody this exotic cultural heritage - the Vietnamese/Cajun Crab Boil restaurant.
You sit at a table covered with butcher paper. The first thing they put on your table is a roll of paper towels; the second thing is a cold beer. You order the seafood of your choice by the pound - shrimp, crawfish, lobster, or blue, king or dungeness crab. You pick from 3 choices of seasoning (Cajun, Lemon Pepper and Garlic). They boil it up and bring it to you in a plastic bag. There isn’t a single piece of cutlery on the table - you eat everything with your hands.
The experience leaves you smiling and satisfied. The table looks like a trainwreck when you’re done.
You can also get raw oysters and fried seafood, and there are sides.
Jonathan Gold wrote a much better review than I could.
It’s in the heart of Little Saigon, and almost everyone in the place was Vietnamese or Asian, except for us and one guy who sat at a table alone and went through a huge bag of mudbugs by himself and went away very satisfied.
Damn! It was good.
MzNicky said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:02
Of course, at this very moment we are in “the future,” relative to when Hudnall wrote his little musings. THINK ABOUT IT.
Linus: That’s so true. For example, I’m not the same person I was when I started typing this sentence. Might that mean that Hudnutt is now a completely different person than he was when he wrote that awful offal? Leave us hope so. And now I’m even a more different person than when I finished that first sentence!
DEMIZE! said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:04
#
Me said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:30
but the very idea of calling CO² a pollution, when it’s a natural process of nature, is nothing short of wacko.
“I hear tell that marijuana is a “natural process of nature”, naturally speaking. I wonder how fucknozzle feels about legalizing it?”
Fucknozzle is a fine fine word.May I use it?
MzNicky said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:06
You…you don’t suppose cHudnall is a naturist do you? [shudder]
Arky: Oh good lord.
Where’s my wine glass?
Kraftwerk said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:08
Poppycock and horse feathers
Nimrods Endless
Poppycock and horse feathers
Nimrods Endless
Rightwingsnarkle said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:11
Did you know that this Hudnut feller, “…has a major motion picture in development with Universal for his series The Psycho.”
Think about it - a major motion picture! In development!!!11!
Why, that’s like being a Vice Presidentat a bank!!1!
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:11
Hey, leprosy is pretty natural, so it’s clearly good, right? Anybody out there like to drop a digit in fucknozzle’s* mega-cheeto-burger, in the interests of science?
*I too admire this word, and shall lard my conversation with it forthwith. Perhaps fifthwith.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:12
Hey, I’m sure I’ve got that album…
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:16
And just apropos of the names, it reminds me of a brand of hair spray (no, not spray-on hair: a kind of liquid glue that turns hair into a helmet) that was previously available here in Oz in earlier years in the past. Probably the 60s in the past, not the current 60s mind you, but the previous 60s.
Anyway, are you ready? Okay, this big can of spray-glue-with-extra-ozone-eaters was marketed under the tres chic name of “Richard Hudnut”. God’s own truth. It still makes me snigger.
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:16
In fairness to Word Warrior Hudnall, he is in favor of legalizing marijuana.
Kraftwerk #2 said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:22
We are standing here
Exposing ourselves
We are PJ Bloggers
We are PJ Bloggers
D. Sidhe said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:33
I am so late to this one, but I could not possibly let this go by:
20 years of placing the letters on the church sign does not make you a writer.
Hysterical Woman, can I buy you a drink?
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:33
If cHudnall is a naturist do you think he likes to flaunt his fucknozzle.
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:34
?
Al Einstein said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:46
Pay no mind to his confusion with subscripts/superscripts in his scientific notation; I mean, hey, Einstein was always fuckin’ that crap up too.
Fucking up? Hell no. I meant to do that.
Herr Doktor Butthead said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:00
You liberals are a bunch of morons.
SamFromUtah said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:08
You liberals are a bunch of morons.
Gheesh, these name-stealers can never spell. It’s morans.
gbear said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:08
How do you keep a troll occupied………………..?
x_eleven said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:10
“Maybe this is not as bad, but the very idea of calling CO² a pollution, when it’s a natural process, is nothing short of wacko.” Oy vey!
How can I get one of those professional writer’s jobs? After all, I can meet the qualifications in spades if this is any indication. “CO2″ is not a “pollution”, nor is it a “process”.
Ex-Fed said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:18
The more I think about it, the more I think that this guy’s graphic novels represent the perfect medium for wingnuttia. Most of their favorite points can be reduced to a monosyllabic four-color action signifier like WHAM! ZOOM! POW! The transition from four-color to the dark and sepia tones of graphic novelists perfectly signifies their heavy burden of self-seriousness. Plus, the jutting-titted women of the comics NEVER laugh at you or throw their drink on your favorite Members Only jacket or get a restraining order from a liberal judge.
Think of it! All of Town Hall could run bi-monthly in a booklet the size of an Archie & Jughead Digest. I bet the X-ray glasses in the back would sell even better; instead of the little drawings implying you can see through the skirts of the 1950s-era women, it could show you looking through the wall to see if the brown people in 5G are plotting to blow up the Chrysler building with semtex baked into those things they say are called “tamales.”
Herr Doktor Butthead said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:19
You liberals ARE POLLUTION!
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:21
How do you keep a troll occupied………………..?
(Open Monitor for answer)
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:24
It’s like a prim Victorian gentleman after a snifter of absinthe
Well dash my balders! You poltroons have the unmitigated gall — the effrontery, I say — to bruit about this poppycock and horse-feathers. Spasm, bring me my horse-whip. I propose to give these jackanapes a lesson in blogger civility.
lobbey said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:43
with playdo and bacon….
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:45
Responding to a review of your book on Amazon.com.
Pathetic, or just plain lame?
I also have a suspicious feeling of a hunch that he is the author of his wiki page.
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 7:51
I really must learn when to stop my inquiring research activities.
ahem said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:17
Unfortunately, none of it is in writing.
commie atheist said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:41
a parody of wingnuts
Is that like a murder of crows?
Anne Laurie said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:50
My uncle died from inhaling horsefeathers. He never screwed around with poppycock, though he was bad to get into the balderdash from time to time…
Matt T, I think I love you. Not only did this make me laugh, but I finally have an explanation for some of the more heavily pruned branches of my family tree that will make it past the profanity firewall.
commie atheist said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:51
Describing the war as a battle between “light and dark,” Bush said
Preznit give me turkee!!!!
Mandos said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:54
Michael Moore is fat.
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:54
a parody of wingnuts
Is that like a murder of crows?
Also
A Comedy of Errors;
A Bodyguard of Lies.
commie atheist said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:57
A Confederacy of Dunces (original name for Pajamas Media; alas, it was already taken)
commie atheist said,
November 11, 2007 at 8:59
Michael Moore is fat.
Yes, but James Hudnall is morbidly obese.
Lesley said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:05
Now, as Mr. Hudnall amply demonstrates, a good writer does not simply have to say something well; he also has to say something intelligent. And that Hudnall certainly does. Who could possibly disagree with his point that Al Gore and all those other liberal global-warming boo-hooers are almost as bad as Hitler and Torquemada for failing to realize that if something like carbon dioxide is naturally produced then its okay to produce as much of it as we can?
altogether now, fart in hudnall’s general direction. it’s natural gas, he can handle it.
hell, everything is natural!. the stuff that went into agent orange and the atomic bomb, for example. what’s our problem, anyway?
btw, it’s obvious, in a very large sammich kinda way, that mr. hudnall has no difficulty inhaling massive quantities of cheetos, so what’s Gavin’s problem? clearly, liberals have weaker plumbing systems.
Mandos said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:08
And?
Lesley said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:11
Word Warrior?
Bwahahaha! [Falls out of chair]
like these “people”
Lesley said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:12
and…
he should stop eating cheetos. (difficult to do, anyway, for a mouth breather.)
Mandos said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:15
What would this do?
Some Guy said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:22
…Man, now i want to go to Subway and get a 6″ cold cut combo with Cheetos. Mmmm… man. Nummy yummy. Hey, ya think they would mind if I broke in and helped myself?
Lesley said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:27
i almost wish bush would legislate a draft so some of these neocon fuckwits would be required to risk their necks. a few boxes containing their remains - extra wide to accommodate their inflated heads - returning home wouldn’t bother me a bit.
cruel to say, but fuck i am beyond caring anymore. i hate these people.
commie atheist said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:38
Yes, but James Hudnall is morbidly obese.
And?
Uh, really stupid?
Some Guy said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:43
Wouldn’t work, Lesley. They’d just get deferments, then blame liberals for being pussies and not wanting to get drafted.
Gavin M. said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:45
All:
It’s been a tough week in terms of Freepers and other trolls coming over to plant nasty stuff in comments, so I apologize, but I’m being a bit vigilant in moderating things that even seem to rub up against the basic no-assholishness policy (see posted policy re: personal info, threats, and all that).
Althouse is having another of her hissies about people using her name. Our reply, every time she does this, includes the fact that anyone is allowed to use anyone’s name they want here, if it’s done as satire and not maliciously — e.g., not as a way to fool people into thinking that somebody is saying things that they’re not really saying.
She seems determined to misunderstand this, which is fine, but I think it’s a good idea to restate it here, so that any new people who come by will know how things customarily work, etc.
Just a note in passing. G-
commie atheist said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:47
God, I am so sick of Althouse’s whining.
Some Guy said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:50
Oh, hey, speaking of Freepers, any news on the web-awards front regarding backlash and/or sour grapes from DUFUS? I expect they shall announce that the awards themselves are liberally biased, and no doubt THOUSANDS of votes for DUFUS were thrown out on dubious charges to make sure you won.
Personally, I think next year I’m backing The Sneeze, should he be nominated again.
Gavin M. said,
November 11, 2007 at 9:54
Oh, they already went through multiple false accusations of cheating, coupled with a Freeper-driven campaign to hack the poll software, plus almost any other kind of bad behavior you can imagine.
That’s part of why I’m so worn-out lately: all the monitoring of message boards and Freeper threads to see what they were trying to pull next.
It was a frickin’ life-lesson, that whole thing. A virtual zoo of Internet pathologies.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 11, 2007 at 10:19
Kraftwerk #2 said,
November 11, 2007 at 6:22
We are standing here
Exposing ourselves
We are PJ Bloggers
We are PJ Bloggers
I know I’ve got that album. I scare myself.
barbell said,
November 11, 2007 at 10:20
welp, the the fight continues in the forum against LOL, the troll who may or may not be PJ Comix, Dummie Funnies blogger who is PJ Gladnick in real life. See bio here. http://www.newsbusters.org/bios/p-j-gladnick.html
I’m convinced LOL and PJ are one and the same or in cahoots for reasons I can’t disclose in this forum as doing so could put me at risk (the fuckwit has begun stalking me).
If they are, whooee… I would love to write to the publications that pay PJ and expose his bullshit.
barbell said,
November 11, 2007 at 10:22
Re Althouse: that she would post a coy photo of herself from the seventies below a headline about Mailer’s death is so ridiculously narcissistic. Gods, I’m surprised the woman isn’t thrilled that people are using her nick in this forum. She loves attention.
pedestrian said,
November 11, 2007 at 10:43
Gods, I’m surprised the woman isn’t thrilled that people are using her nick in this forum. She loves attention.
You think she isn’t? She set up a Google auto alert that will email her any time someone types her name. She probably masturbates to our threads.
barbell said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:05
Having lived with an alcoholic narcissist who shares Althouse’s on-line persona and sex - (i.e. this person was female, highly educated, professionally employed, sexually fucked up), i’m familiar with the MO of Ann Althouse. She’s transparently pathetic.
mikey said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:07
Wow. I’m on the road. 154 comments, and gavin moderating into the early morning hours. I haven’t read them all, and I’m genuinely surprised that anne althouse’s breasts are causing any amount of fuss.
May I recommend a sammich?
Rock on, Sadlies….
mikey
N. Dless Nimrod said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:09
Beware the Ides of November.
And, of course, the twin dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.
barbell said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:10
This photo speaks volumes.
N. Dless Nimrod said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:10
But, mostly the Ides of November.
And Pakistanis, of course.
Poppy feathers are perfectly all right, but the other is, perhaps, best not discussed in polite company.
N. Dless Nimrod said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:12
Beware that, too. Especially unmarried women, and professional writers with more than 20 years experience in writing comic books.
Ann Althouse said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:23
Wow! All I wanted to do was share my vortex! What’s with the hostility against Althouse impersonation? I’m following the rules!
barbell said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:37
Ann would prefer you use the word “vagina.” “Vortex” has less sex appeal to the readers who fantasize “banging her at Altamont.”
owlbear1 said,
November 11, 2007 at 11:51
A 5 year old with an 8th grade reading level. But that was then and this is now.
M. Bouffant said,
November 11, 2007 at 12:01
Gavin & other estimable hosts:
Uh-oh. I was making some mock of the Divine Ms. A. at my very low-traffic blog, about her lack of humour on that very subject. (Hoping, of course, to piss her off & get some attention. Also, M. McArdle is not blogging, so I’ve no one else to pick on besides the usual collection of politicians.) Hope there’s no blowback in your direction, ’cause you know w/ her Google Herself Alert she’ll be all over it. (Talk about asking for it.)
I don’t follow the “threats” policy though. If people are posting under obvious pseudonyms & have no idea who or where the other one is, why can’t they make threats of physical violence? I know I’ve read a few threats of at least a bitch-slap directed against actual public figures here (Bill Kristol certainly makes the blood boil). Is it alright if one says, “I’d sure like to smack [name of wingnut] in the [body part of your choice]” as opposed to “I’m absolutely going to the business or place of residence of X, Y, or Z & slap his/her lights out?” Or are slap threats OK, but explicit mikey-like (in the sense of descriptive narrations of weaponry involved & potential damage to be done, not that mikey’s ever threatened anyone) threats of greater than slap violence not allowed? How ’bout when someone (probably on the other side of the continent from the threatened) offers to “take it outside?”
Not to make your part time gigs here any harder. Just food (or Chee-tos™) for thought.
barbell said,
November 11, 2007 at 12:27
I wouldn’t worry about it M. Bouffant. Ann didn’t react to the men who wrote the following comments, on her blog,
1. That picture…Oh my god. I think I boinked that woman at Altamont…
2. “If you had posted that as a photo of one of Charles Manson’s “family,” I wouldn’t have been a bit surprised.”
3. “you didn’t boink her in Altamont, you bonked her, with a cue.”
She got angry with the guy who wrote this, though:
“Wow, your were hot once. For how long? It has to be longer then just that one day the picture was taken.
Is the reason you never got married because guys saw that poster in your room and thought you were a lesiban [sic]?
Not his first paragraph, his second.
tommy yum said,
November 11, 2007 at 14:46
S,N! must referee the Grogan/Hudnall smackdown. Marie’ Jon’ can hold up the cards before each round.
Snorghagen said,
November 11, 2007 at 14:52
Barbell wrote:
There are publications that currently pay money to this guy? I’m not just joking, I’m genuinely surprised, given his inability to be funny and his general air of desperation. On his bio page, I notice that all references to employment as a humor writer are in past tense.
humbert dinglepencker said,
November 11, 2007 at 15:47
(rich three-part harmony)
Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork…and they stand…there!
(break)
(racing funk bass-line)
I’ll be your rooouuuunnnd the block,
I got your horsey-feathers and
Your poppycock…
Gavin M. said,
November 11, 2007 at 17:25
Well, it’s usually pretty obvious when it happens. There was someone awhile back, addressing Mikey, who was being all like, “Where do you live, so I can [do something to] you?” Mikey thought it was funny, which was very generous of him, but it wasn’t so funny coming from an unknown visitor who’d just appeared on the site.
As a rule, if someone isn’t genuinely trying to intimidate another person, it doesn’t come off as though they are. But the Freeper troll invasion made things a bit tougher re: new and unknown visitors. They like to plant things in comments and then gaspingly point to them as ‘evidence,’ and all sorts of things like that. They can also be genuinely malicious, trying to harm people in real life when they can’t win Internet sissy-fights. .
They seem to have gone on to other things, so I expect we’ll be back to normal soon. Until then, um, I certainly haven’t noticed anything untoward in anything you’ve said.
Comrade Rutherford said,
November 11, 2007 at 17:39
What about foofaraw?!
Won’t someone think of the foofaraw?
Along with poppycock and horsefeathers, foofaraw and balderdash are critical ingredients of ‘libertarian’ ‘writing’.
As in: “Global Warming: Balderdash or Foofaraw?’
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 17:40
Um. I’m sure I’m missing something but can’t you just post a little ed note that states “SN! is not responsible for the content of the comments and the ideas (such as they are) and opinions of the people writing them do not reflect those of SN!”?
Or even: “The intertoobs are a rough and tumble place. If your feelings are easily hurt turn off the computer and read a book.”
If I go to the Washington Post On-Line and call Charles Krauthammer a lying crap weasel whom I’d like to feed through a wood chipper so I could use him to fertilize my tomato plants,* it’s obnoxious and violent and possibly illegal but no one would say the Washington Post said it wants to mulch Up Chuck.
Just my not-fully caffeine fueled thoughts, but the idea that there is some sort of corporate responsibility relationship between the blog owner and the posters is just bullshit. Remember when GoneZo tried to foist that shit off on the US in order to “Protect the Children”?
*Note: The author of this post is not advocating the use of violence against conservative columnists or the use of conservative columnists as fertilizer. It would kill your plants anyways.
Ann Althouse said,
November 11, 2007 at 17:42
I am Ann Althouse and I did NOT approve this message!
Now shut up or I’ll sue you!!!
All of you!
Comrade Rutherford said,
November 11, 2007 at 17:46
So Anal T. House actually reads the comments here?
Syndicalist said,
November 11, 2007 at 18:02
We had the collective-noun discussion a while back, but I can’t remember what was decided on.
I guess I’m partial to a festering of wingnuts. Second place goes to an encrustation of wingnuts.
owlbear1 said,
November 11, 2007 at 18:06
Arky, if you put him through a woodchipper he won’t learn nothing.
Professor Fate said,
November 11, 2007 at 18:40
Mr. Hundall - here is an sealed chamber containing nothing but Carbon Dioxide - please enter and enjoy the natural process.
James Hudnall said,
November 11, 2007 at 18:47
Ouch, you got me. Those are some bad pull quotes.
I am guilty of not proofing my posts as much as I should. It’s a blog, after all. But I should do better. My only excuse is I’m really busy and I often don’t have a lot of time for blogging.
Even though this is a very insulting post, and even though a lot of rude people have come over to my blog to insult me personally (though anonymously), I thank you for this. I’m going to pay more attention now, as I should have done.
There’s no excuse for any of this. And it’s not representative of my work.
But then, you would know that if you knew my work. You seem to think I am some extreme right winger, which is also a false impression. I am a centrist iconoclast,. I’m actually pretty liberal. I’m just not a fan of leftists, because I think worship of the state is more dangerous in the long term than what the neo-cons are doing. History makes my point for me. If you are a German, East Germany should be a clue.
Of course, we really know what this is about. I’ve looked over your blog and you spend a lot of time insulting people you don’t agree with and trying to demean them. As if this some how makes your position loftier.
All that does is reveal a contempt you have for other humans. And a deep seated insecurity about yourself.
Have a nice day.
a different mikey said,
November 11, 2007 at 18:53
“There’s no excuse for any of this.”
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
Paddy Mac said,
November 11, 2007 at 18:55
“…anyone is allowed to use anyone’s name they want here, if it’s done as satire and not maliciously…”
That’s the problem. These wingnuts don’t merely lack logic, facts, and reason. They need wingnut welfare because they’re piss-poor writers, period. This post nicely encapsulates their problem. We’ve seen many great off-the-cuff satires of Hudnall in this comment thread, but have any of us really exceeded his idiocy? How could anyone with half a working brain do so? Ms. Althouse rightly figures that, no matter how intentionally stupid, pseudo-hateful, mocking, insane, or otherwise outre our satire, a reasonable person would mistake it for her native output, because no limit to her foolishness has yet been shown to exist.
At least that’s what the past wells us. When we move our process to the future, and kill all those growing pollut-plants (which are unnaturally natureal), looking backwards, we will misunderestimate our current reality — which by there, will be our past — and, therefore, liberals are commies and , oh, the heck with it. I still can’t compete with him.
SamFromUtah said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:11
Thanks for stopping by, James!
Your display of professional writing has given me a deeper appreciation for the skills of professional editors.
Righteous Bubba said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:11
I’m actually pretty liberal. I’m just not a fan of leftists, because I think worship of the state
Obviously that stuff about trying to do better was a load of … checking thread … codswallop.
g said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:13
Ms. Althouse rightly figures that, no matter how intentionally stupid, pseudo-hateful, mocking, insane, or otherwise outre our satire, a reasonable person would mistake it for her native output, because no limit to her foolishness has yet been shown to exist.
Oh, I think you’re lending her far, far more rationality than she actually possesses.
Ann’s problem with these posts are motivated by an emotion as simple and enduring as it was back when she was 14 - it’s the fear that somewhere, some people are having a slumber party that she wasn’t invited to, and that they are huddled in their sleeping bags making fun and gossiping about her.
g said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:14
Of course, we really know what this is about. I’ve looked over your blog and you spend a lot of time insulting people you don’t agree with and trying to demean them. As if this some how makes your position loftier.
All that does is reveal a contempt you have for other humans. And a deep seated insecurity about yourself.
Oh, snap! he got us!
Me said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:20
My only excuse is I’m really busy and I often don’t have a lot of time for blogging.
But your bio says you’re a “professional writer”. What, if you don’t mind my asking, are you busy doing?
Smiling Mortician said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:28
James Hudnall said,
November 11, 2007 at 18:47
Ouch, you got me. Those are some bad pull quotes.
I am guilty of not proofing my posts as much as I should.
Proofing? When your entire argument rests on a faulty premise supported by nonexistent evidence and copious malapropisms, ain’t no copy editor in the world can fix it.
*sigh* And I was holding out hope that he actually was a parody.
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:33
And yet, if we check the archive (I went back to August) we can see he blogs at least once on an almost daily basis.
Perhaps there is a new, more natural, definition of not a lot of time.
Uh-huh.
I too challenge anyone to spoof anything of this caliber. Drunk, sober, stuffed to the gills on Cheetos and Mountain Dew, I don’t care. It can not be done.
SamFromUtah said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:34
Proofing? When your entire argument rests on a faulty premise supported by nonexistent evidence and copious malapropisms, ain’t no copy editor in the world can fix it.
I agree no copy editor can fix the argument, but they sure as hell can fix “The day will come some day in the future where they will look at the people of today…”
FWIW, I think people in the future will believe that the people of today were a bunch of loonies. Just not for the same “reasons” that our Mr. Hudnall thinks that.
Bullsmith said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:44
Yeah, I notice a lot of worshiping the state these days on the left. Congress is feeling the love all over.
commie atheist said,
November 11, 2007 at 19:57
I’m actually pretty liberal. I’m just not a fan of leftists, because I think worship of the state is more dangerous in the long term than what the neo-cons are doing. History makes my point for me. If you are a German, East Germany should be a clue.
I don’t think the word “liberal” means what you think it means.
However, you got us on that “worship of the state” thing. California Uber Alles!!!
FlipYrWhig said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:00
Oh boy, libertarianism! That’s where I’m a Viking!
mat said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:05
“Yeah, I notice a lot of worshiping the state these days on the left. ”
As opposed to the worship of the Heroic Leader by the right?
J. Hudnall Althouse, Esq. said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:19
Just for kicks, let’s read a bit about Nimrod:
Ann Althouse's doppleganger said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:22
How things customarily work here doesn’t fit in my need to be willfully ignorant so that my feigned outrage can be perpetuated. My blog needs fuel dammit, and if I can’t come up with any good original ideas on my own to keep things moving, then by God whining about other people making fun of me will be my issue!! If I play my cards right, this will take me into the middle of next week, or the end of my box of Gallo. Whichever comes first.
Doodle Bean said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:23
The wingnut has confused me. Why is he squaring carbon monoxide?
Bravo, Marita! You get twenty jillion points!
Ovid said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:27
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
Mikey smells like shit said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:33
You liberals are a bunch of crybaby sissies.
Arky said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:34
Marita, if CO is natural and natural is good, then CO² is even more gooder because that means you get 50% more of CO’s natural wholesomeness!
Sorry.
I think commie atheist deserves a few points for the DK reference.
tb said,
November 11, 2007 at 20:35
These Democrats are playing with nuclear fire with their “national health care” and their “sensible alternative energy policy”. Jamming sham democratic government down people’s throats with the barrel of a gun, making millions of them dedicate their lives to taking up arms against us is infinitely more prudent.
Yes,