Don’t Forget Catharine MacNerdington!

There are several indications that an article is not going to be worth your time unless you’re a blogger looking for something really dumb to make fun of. The first is that it appears in the Dartmouth Review. But if that’s not enough for some reason, this one makes it clear early:

Writing on CNN.com yesterday, columnist Megan Carpentier broke from the issue’s traditional fault lines to rebuke Mr. Buffett’s tax proposals on radical new ground. Donning the persona of the late Andrea Dorkin, the author argues that the primary problem with a proposal that reeks of Occupy-style class warfare isn’t its spurious economic underpinnings or its assault on success; rather, its most glaring deficiency is its architect’s insistence on calling his “personal assistant” a “secretary.”

Andrea Dorkin? Was that a character in one of the American Pie sequels?

I actually kind of appreciate that. The ratio of wingnut pundits who invoke Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin — the most powerful actors in 20th century American political life — to the wingnut pundits who could tell you a single thing about either of their work is roughly three million to zero. Getting one of them confused with a nickname you or another asshole in your frat gave to a girl in high school with glasses that weren’t cutting edge enough just gives up the pretense.