Comments on: Dumbing Down The Word

By: (Lex) It's All In My Head (Azagthoth)

(Lex) It's All In My Head (Azagthoth) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:09:44 +0000

Their “pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking”, as Spock said of Khan when he was whirling around in the nebula looking for The Enterprise. Rather, “Two-party Thinking” as I grew to call it in honor of that exact quote. Ahhh….quien es mas macho? Senor Hanson, o Senor Montalban? Senor Kristol o Montalban?

Senor Hanson is too busy marketing his mugs and mousepads to busy himself with this business, ya know?

By: Strangething

Strangething — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:39:11 +0000

Bill Cosby has a ~~posse~~ Sblog?

By: henry lewis

henry lewis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:50:39 +0000

On the subject of Ignatieff, go read David Rees' takedown from last August. An intert00bs classic.

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:33:34 +0000

Yeap, I bet those preteen girls just loved marrying old men! It’s not like they had no choice and were told it was the only way to get to heaven. Free consent is over-rated in marriages.

By: obsoleziphelicopter

obsoleziphelicopter — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:26:19 +0000

Objectively, pro-rape?

…Finally, we should openly discuss the question, and examine our prejudices to the contrary: is it truly so egregious and damaging for a teenage girl to marry a 40-year-old man, that the state is justified in tearing families apart and causing trauma to prevent it from happening? I have the same cultural distaste for it that everyone else reading this has, but objectively, I’m not convinced. If the girls are happy and their children are thriving, what is the law protecting them from?…

http://www.plumbbobblog.com/?p=327#comments

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:39:56 +0000

then I can hide him in the kitchen until you’re gone, you’ll never look for a man in there!
That’s cruel, Tigrismus. Very cruel.

By: The 100 top public intellectuals | stuart noble

The 100 top public intellectuals | stuart noble — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:26:34 +0000

[...] Really, these guys made the list? Sadly so from Sadly No! [...]

By: PeeJ

PeeJ — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:22:31 +0000

Pheh. If they were looking for REAL historians and REAL intellectuals with REAL credentials as REAL public thingies then Newt Gingrich would have been listed.

And to Wordpress: You task me! I’ll chase you round the outer nebula and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition’s flames before I give up!

By: Von Pseud

Von Pseud — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:46:55 +0000

On the subject of Ayaan Hirsi Ali I’m very much with Mr. Lobbey. As traumatic as her early life was her career in Dutch politics was an almost perfect illustration of the ‘I’m alright Jack, pull up the ladder’ principle.

By: ahem

ahem — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:55:11 +0000

In regard to Niall Ferguson one is tempted to say that to be an ‘intellectual’ you don’t necessarily have to be right, just significantly advance the public discourse. Of course, one is also not sure if hoots of derisive laughter from the public counts.

The hoots of derisive laughter from historians probably mean that you’ve graduated from the field of history into that of intellectualology.

By: ahem

ahem — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:52:18 +0000

Ignatieff is a deputy leader of the federal Liberals, so 'wingnutien' is probably off. Savant idiot is nice. 'Smug liberal hawk careerist carpetbagging fuckwad' will do.

By: Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:14:40 +0000

BTW I read somewhere that Ricardo Montalban’s chest was his own as he prepared for the movie role the same way he did for the TV show.

By having silicone implants sewn into his pectorals?

By: Suicidal Zebra

Suicidal Zebra — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:13:05 +0000

But Gaydar… now that’s just a cheap shot.

By: Suicidal Zebra - Now Apologising for Boris Johnson's Hair

Suicidal Zebra - Now Apologising for Boris Johnson's Hair — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:12:16 +0000

I was going to make a crack about the ‘Friedman Unit’ seeming smaller every year, if that counts.

By: Strider

Strider — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:55:23 +0000

BTW I read somewhere that Ricardo Montalban’s chest was his own as he prepared for the movie role the same way he did for the TV show.

By: UNE_HusseinOfNegroFascism

UNE_HusseinOfNegroFascism — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:53 +0000

CTRL-F type “Gaydar”.

WTF?!?!

One of the snarkiest venues on the whole of the internets and no-one yet cracking on the third to last Intellectual on the list? Cracking on his unfortunately humorous last name that is……

By: Gregory

Gregory — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:39:57 +0000

Ann Althouse is going to be pissed today.

It seems she’s pissed (in the British colloquial sense, meaning drunk) just about all the time.

[/delurk]

By: lobbey

lobbey — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:39:12 +0000

I don’t even particularly dislike Ayaan Hirsi Ali. What pisses me off is the way that her courage to speak freely is taken as blanket permission to hate other brown people. It is like ending a long racist rant against black people with, “And Bill Cosby agrees with me”. You never hear about her opposition to Christian fundamentalists, or her support for gay rights, drug legalization, and absolute seperation of church and state.

I really don’t give a shit about her one way or the other, to tell you the truth, its just that not in a million years would I call her a ‘public intellectual’. At best she swings with the prevailing wind with respect to where the cash is coming from and recently she is just incoherent. If she qualifies as a ‘public intellectual’, then so do most my mates at 9pm on a Friday night.

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:37:20 +0000

Is Ben Stein on the list?

Or, after “Expelled,” was that just too obvious?

By: stryx

stryx — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:37:02 +0000

I can't believe this guy didn't make the list.