Tuesday, April 13, 2004
(9:37 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
I know I already linked this on the quick links
And I know I'm scrolling Robb down much too quickly, but seriously: read this (this being "Every Damned Weblog Post Ever"). The comment section is the best. Here are some highlights:
From D-squared:
A few minutes research using google, of the sort that anyone serious who wasn't a pathetic hack pushing an agenda would have carried out, reveals that your numbers are out by a factor of 1.0625. Who the hell do you think you're trying to convince with this worthless bollocks?
While we're at it, I'd be *ahem* grateful if you could provide citations, with links, for every single word of your post, including "and" and "the". Somehow, I don't think you're going to bother.
From apostropher:
Heh heh. Nice.
Posted by: apostropher on April 13, 2004 12:19 PM | Reply to this
Heh heh. Nice.
Posted by: apostropher on April 13, 2004 12:21 PM | Reply to this
Sorry about the double comment.
Posted by: apostropher on April 13, 2004 12:21 PM | Reply to this
From Matt McIrvin:
No, see, the real problem with this kind of humorous exercise is the implicit assumption that these rhetorical fallacies are essentially independent of ideological alignment, that all sides engage in dishonesty to approximately the same degree. It's the fake "balance" of the ersatz political authorities that whore themselves in unsigned editorials, the he-said-she-said sickness of a world unwilling to express itself in anything but surrender to the swollen organizational monstrosities that order our lives like six-thousand-ton ticks sucking the life essence out of the national discourse. When in fact anyone who has eyes to see and is not yet a complete quisling prostitute will reject such empty "nonpartisan" jocularity, and recognize that all people who disagree with me are guilty of crimes against humanity, and in a just world would hang by the neck.
Amen.
Anyway, with that post, the blogosphere is officially over -- we have entered into the post-blogosphere, during which we can only shallowly mimic other people's past achievements.
