June 14, 2006

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Nag me tomorrow if I haven't barfed up some thoughts on this, which is excellent, and this, which is also excellent, but which pains me nonetheless because, frankly, I have a difficult time drumming up any sympathy for the blogger being discussed in that post.

Still, it's the principle of the thing, and I do support the principle.

I would just like to point out to any left-leaning readers that the blogger under discussion in that second link was the right's thin-skinned freak machine long before he was yours, lefties--and we managed to have just as much fun with him without calling him a paste-eater. It's not difficult; you don't exactly have to reach down deep into your bag of insults to launch some people into angry, angry orbits.

Posted by Ilyka at June 14, 2006 11:45 AM in hell is other people
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More food for thought:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/health/13brea.html?_r=1&8dpc=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

What did we tell Bingley?

Posted by: John at June 14, 2006 01:04 PM

Your email won't work for me, but I'm glad you posted this.

http://sadlyno.com/archives/002902.html

Dude.

Posted by: Lauren at June 14, 2006 03:12 PM
More food for thought:

Sheesh, is some web admin dude at the NYT spending ALL his time deleting bugmenot registrations? None of them last beyond a day anymore. Bleah. I'll check out the article later, though. Assigning me MORE work--isn't that just like an academic!

Dude.

WHOA.

Posted by: ilyka at June 14, 2006 05:49 PM

One day, I think we're going to have to sacrifice venting in the name of civility. I admit that the more I read Goldstein, the more I'm chilled by what he does with our shared anti-essentialist beliefs. Ugh. Anyhow, I'll be interested to hear your response to my post, which is, unlike much of what I've read lately, an earnest attempt to generate invectiveless discussion.

Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman at June 14, 2006 06:43 PM

Ilyka: pick up the gist here:

http://tinkertytonk.blogspot.com/

I think her title says it all:

"Next thing you know, bottle feeders will be thrown in jail"

And calling me an Academic: them's fighting words. I may hold a Ph.D., but I hold it in something useful enough to go get a real job with. ;-)

Posted by: John at June 15, 2006 04:06 AM