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Category: Politics
Posted on: January 28, 2006 7:29 AM, by PZ Myers
…but I guess everyone has their snapping point. Jaquandor doesn't usually snarl at people, but he's done a fine takedown of wingnut stupidity.
What tipped him over? Jonah Goldberg. I can't blame him—I studiously avoid NRO's corner because it reminds me too painfully of how idiotic some people can be. The NRO gang are just freepers with Buckleyesque pretensions.
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Probably wouldn't have happened if I hadn't read that Orson Scott Card article a few days ago, and just taken a deep breath and let it go....
Posted by: Jaquandor | January 28, 2006 7:48 AM
There is strength in anger. Use it!
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January 28, 2006 8:02 AM
Pointing out the stupidity of truly stupid people is rarely productive, primarily because they won't understand the demonstration of their inanity in the first place.
There may be strength in anger, but if that strength isn't used to silence or at least exclude the babblings of morons, it's wasted. Any population needs a filter to eliminate harmful variations. If you're not going to be that filter, or contribute to its construction, don't bother.
Posted by: Caledonian | January 28, 2006 10:37 AM
When you're over at Jaquandor's site you might want to read the touching story of Little Quinn if you haven't. You need to scroll way down and look for the links on the left.
Posted by: Torris | January 28, 2006 11:18 AM
Pointing out the stupidity of truly stupid people is rarely productive, primarily because they won't understand the demonstration of their inanity in the first place.
*snortle* So, Caledonian, is mathematics still science for you?
Posted by: RavenT | January 28, 2006 12:27 PM
Yeah, *snortle*. The story continues in the next post too.
And the arrogant 'we have a problem because I say so, contribute to the solution because I say so' attitude is ... an inanity I will filter out, not point out. :-)
Posted by: Anonymous | January 28, 2006 12:53 PM
Oh yes, at least until someone points out a flaw in the demonstration. So far there's been nothing but "it isn't, 'cause".
Posted by: Caledonian | January 28, 2006 1:36 PM
NRO to me means the National Reconnaissance Office, the joint CIA and US Air Force Agency which operates and interprets imagery from America's surveillance satellites. Who has appropriated their acronym?
-jcr
Posted by: John C. Randolph | January 28, 2006 2:00 PM
Wow, what an idiotic exchange between Derbyshire and Goldberg. Derbyshire has in the past taken a strong stance against intelligent [sic] design, and rightly championed evolution as an elegant theory. Too bad he couldn't continue that line of thinking. I do think it's valuable to point out the stupidity of stupid people, at least so that people like me can put their occasional eloquence in perspective.
Posted by: Kristine | January 28, 2006 2:24 PM
I think he's on the right track with the lard. But rather than smear yourself with it what you really need to do is pour it in the ice cold water where it will solidify into a floating lard island. Then all you need to do is fashion a sail from Kate Windslet's dress and you'll be in New York harbour before the Carpathia.
But I'm surprised he didn't think of using a bathtub with the plug in as a lifeboat. Personally I would have stuck two bathtubs together with lard to make a submarine. No wait, actually I would have used my Spiderman powers to web onto the iceberg and use that as a life raft. Didn't think of that, did you Jonah?
Posted by: Ronald Brak | January 28, 2006 7:42 PM
JCR,
NRO = National Review Online, the online presence of the far right magazine of the same name.
Posted by: shargash | January 28, 2006 10:42 PM
Why didn't they shine the Batlight and help would be on the way?
Posted by: President Merkin Muffley | January 29, 2006 1:40 AM