It Can’t Get Stupider, But It Can Get Lazier
Charlotte Allen would like to inform her critics that her logical and factual errors are central to her point.
The only interesting thing about Allen’s response is that apparently Erik’s name has already reached the status as being, in the context of conservative blogs, a cliche whose use is instant proof of lazy hackery. Impressive — I had no idea that Erik could be a game changer…on steroids! (I would talk about people being thrown under buses but I don’t want to be accused of advocating vehicular manslaughter.)
Kyle Huckins:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:23 pm
It can always get stupider. Allen, McArdle and LaPierre might combine to form a really stupid Voltron.
MAJeff:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Guns won’t kill people, but non-profit public health systems providing HPV vaccines to teen whores playing video games kill people.
Malaclypse:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:30 pm
I had no idea that Erik could be a game changer…on steroids!
Academia needs better performance-enhancing drugs.
Erik Loomis:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:30 pm
“The only interesting thing about Allen’s response is that apparently Erik’s name has already reached the status as being, in the context of conservative blogs, a cliche whose use is instant proof of lazy hackery. Impressive — I had no idea that Erik could be a game changer…on steroids!”
I knew I was destined to be famous in some bizarre way.
Stephen Frug:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Dang it, you made me click through to that tripe just to see precisely what she said of him. I resent giving them the hits. How ’bout a block quote of the relevant bit?
Erik Loomis:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:31 pm
We used to have them, but then that Family Ties episode where Alex downed all of Mallory’s diet pills permanently scared me off of that sort of thing.
bobbyp:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Loomis this. Loomis that. Pretty soon you’re talking about a whole lot of Loomis.
Linnaeus:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:32 pm
The smoker you drink, the player you get.
Malaclypse:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:34 pm
That was a Very Special Episode.
Clark:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:36 pm
When you doubled down on those game changing tweets the result was your 15 minutes of fame.
Erik Loomis:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Also does this mean that I am obligated to write and speak strictly in cliches from this point forward?
Malaclypse:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:38 pm
No, it means you must always be every bit as literally true as the Book of Revelations.
MAJeff:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Nothing will top Helen Hunt. That was VERY special.
Anonymous:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Snort. Makes no f’ing sense but sure made me laugh. Thx.
Matt T. in New Orleans:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:44 pm
Obviously, you’re not a fan of modern jazz.
Malaclypse:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:52 pm
And I have a sad: No longer are DocAmazing, DrDick, and I the evil LGM regulars that upset the Donalde’s sensibilities. The new force of darkness here is none other than, yes, Bijan Parsia.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of LGM commenters.
wjts:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:55 pm
I dunno – Tom Hanks was pretty special, too.
Erik Loomis:
December 21st, 2012 at 9:58 pm
That is quite an honor.
Clark:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:01 pm
It was the business with Meade that drew me into the LGM orbit.
joe from Lowell:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:02 pm
Holy crap, Erik’s an icon.
All for using just marginally harsher language than most people.
Icarus Wright:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Hot 3 way action!…for the kids.
Davis X. Machina:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:11 pm
A mere 96 pixels square. I always thought of him as bigger than that..
DrDick:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:15 pm
You now join Mal and I on the wrongwing bloggers hall of infamy. Congratulations and welcome, sir.
DrDick:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:16 pm
All right! We have another inductee! Congratulations and welcome to you as well, sir!
DrDick:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Actually much milder than is bog standard on wrongwing blogs.
jon:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:20 pm
“I would talk about people being thrown under buses…” Good God man, does no one think of the bus?
Michael H Schneider:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Allen and McArdle are very, very close to the best response to the problem.
I realized this when I thought back upon a day last week when I was surrounded by four standard poodles. Mine was the smallest, at 45 pounds. That’s around the weight of grade school kids. But poodles are faster, more agile, can leap farther, and accelerate more quickly, and have more effective dentition, than people. Especially the dentition.
The problem is not a feminized culture, or a lack of men, or kids not trained to attack. The problem is not sex or gender. The problem is that we are working with the wrong species.
Everything goes better with poodles. That’s the obvious answer. And mine could teach the kids a thing or two about what it really means to be a powerful bitch (I’m using the term in its technical sense). I’ve seen her put dogs larger than herself on their backs with her mouth around their throats, and then she explains the true meaning of respect.
I’m going to get in touch with the Poodle Club of America and see if we can get a program of Poodles in the Classroom (and, for airborne terrorists, Sky Poodles) in place. As I like to say when people start talking about feminized culture: Tell it to the poodles. I’ve never met a gun with half the brains of a poodle.
Mister Harvest:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:30 pm
So, help a recent immigrant out here. Where did the “central to my point” thing get its start?
Warren Terra:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:37 pm
The sky poodles also have the tactical advantage of natural camouflage: they sort-of look like fluffy white clouds.
Warren Terra:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:44 pm
The entry in the Balloon Juice Lexicon is fairly clear:
That definition links to a Shorter using the meme in reference to Goldberg; this page quotes Goldberg actually using the meme himself, possibly in the original instance that led to its becoming an ironic meme:
Anticorium:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:45 pm
During the writing of Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg anticipated that he might be challenged by people who would argue, just maybe, there was a little bit of difference between 1940s concentration camps and a liberal arts college teaching its freshman classes to obtain consent before sex.
His response, in the book: “Liberal fascism differs from classical fascism in many ways. I don’t deny this. Indeed, it is central to my point.”
Anticorium:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Damn you, Warren.
Major Kong:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:47 pm
I’m all for the sky poodles but I’m not following the damn thing around my plane with a plastic bag and a scooper.
Mister Harvest:
December 21st, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Thank you both kindly!
commie atheist:
December 21st, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Life’s been good to Loomis – so far.
Hogan:
December 21st, 2012 at 11:19 pm
I’m afraid I’m never going to be reasonable enough to win the Bijan Parsia Prize for Unmitigated Evil.
commie atheist:
December 21st, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Skyyyyyyyy Poodle…how high can you fly? You never, never, never, reach the sky.
Bijan Parsia:
December 22nd, 2012 at 12:15 am
What’d I do?
Oh. Be misread. How interesting!
I find it even more interesting that he’d post my comment in its entirety (probably violating my copyright :)) when it immediately refutes his claims about it. Oh well, I left a clarificatory comment on that post. We’ll see how he reacts.
repsac3:
December 22nd, 2012 at 12:18 am
You can tune a Loomis…but you can’t tuna fish (or a pike, for that matter.)
Bijan Parsia:
December 22nd, 2012 at 12:28 am
Oh, and I should note that I’m not named as evil, just an “idiot progressive” and professor (check out my login credentials!). Now perhaps that entails my evil…I don’t know.
cpinva:
December 22nd, 2012 at 9:39 am
in other words, there was the (admittedly small) possibility that someone, with an IQ greater than 5, might read his “book”, and point out how obviously full of shit he is.
Jymn:
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:13 am
Perhaps if teachers were paid a better wage, more men would be elementary teachers. Then again, I doubt that would make much of a difference if it was a man or woman when confronted with a madman and a Bushmaster.
Pestilence:
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:36 am
Well, clearly it does. Any higher education automatically brainwashes you into the Evil. I can even produce evidence (Instapundit, Althouse, Donalde Douglas…)
Pestilence:
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:40 am
win
Pestilence:
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:42 am
nonsense – real men always carry at least 2 guns on them, and are expert, unfailing shots at all times, and wear full body armour
John Protevi:
December 22nd, 2012 at 11:08 am
I would like to give this comment two juicy bones of its choosing and a nice afternoon in the park it likes best.
Roger Ailes:
December 22nd, 2012 at 9:17 pm
He can’t complain, but sometimes he still does.
Bijan Parsia:
December 22nd, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to brainwash for reading comprehension.
Bijan Parsia:
December 22nd, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Thus far, he’s not reacting well.
I wonder if he can possibly back down and acknowledge the plain meaning of my comment. His first reply isn’t very promising, since the insult (freak) seem rather disconnected from the claim that I’m unclear.
Bijan Parsia:
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Hmm. I had forgotten about this encounter.
That makes a sensible response even less likely, I guess. Oh well. It’s sorta interesting, I guess. I’m not sure why it’s so difficult for him to concede his misreading straight up. Presumably, he’d get some marginal cred for doing so?
Hogan:
December 22nd, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Not from anyone whose opinion he cares about.
Bill Murray:
December 22nd, 2012 at 11:08 pm
You’re not a star athlete so you should be OK
Bill Murray:
December 23rd, 2012 at 11:45 am
Sky Poodles?!?!!?
Everyone knows it’s Sky Weimaraner or as we like to say Skymaraner. i did not spend my life not raping and killing people to not go up in the sky with my Skymaraner