Tuesday, October 1, 2002 |
22:33 - <blinks audibly>
http://counterspin.blogspot.com/
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Okay-- forgive me for being buried under a rock lately with nothing to keep me company but chapter upon chapter of author review, but just what in the hell is up with this Hesiod Theogeny guy?
I just skimmed the posts on his page going back through about 9/19, and almost all the content consists of him pointing a shaking finger at other bloggers and shrieking, "Look! Look at him-- he's an idiot! And this guy is stupid! And this one stopped linking to me-- what an asshole! And her-- I've never heard of her, but she must be a moron too!" He seems to spend all his time inventing imaginary grassroots Silent Majorities for the purpose of overruling opinions like Den Beste's and Lileks' and Reynolds'-- if you removed all the posts that refer to Den Beste, you'd be left with a couple of sneering references to the quote-unquote-Axis-of-Evil and the quote-unquote-War-on-Terror and an animated GIF of a candy bar wrapper fluttering in the breeze.
I mean, I don't agree with everything Den Beste says... but when he writes a researched thesis that runs to ten monospaced printed pages, I consider that a point worth respecting, if not responding to in kind, not ridiculing. Especially if the best response I could come up with to an invocation of Godwin's Law is a spurious reference to the other guy's reasoned mention of Nazi Germany as a genuine salient contention.
Why is everybody suddenly wasting valuable electrons linking to this guy?
And why are the intro sentences to his posts in a smaller font than the rest of the text?
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