Still the Gold Standard of Hackery After All These Years
By Yep, Glenn Reynolds has still got it. His latest crackpot claim is that “eliminationist rhetoric” is far from confined to one nut who took hostages at the Discovery Channel but is prevalent among contemporary environmentalists. His “evidence” for this assertion is as follows:
- The transparently idiotic “what happens when you type phrase into a Google search box” metric. (I especially like this because it’s an indirect way of letting you know that he tried to Google up some actual evidence and came up empty.)
- A willful misreading of a 30 year-old book.
- That is all. But since the beginning of time, liberals have yearned to destroy the sun!
I’m not sure if this quite comes up to the level of some of his past McCarthyite Comedy Classics, but it belongs in the discussion.
UPDATE (SEK): I was going to write about this earlier, but got distracted by this awesome book. Had I not, I would’ve written a post that included the following self-explanatory image:
