Comments on: Quiz Night at Crooked Timber

By: Conservative

Conservative — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:58:07 +0000

You folks ain’t from around these parts are you? We don’t take kindly to strangers.

By: harry

harry — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:02:46 +0000

Bet he doesn’t sneer at Paul Wolfowitz for knowing lots about the history of the far left.

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 14:53:34 +0000

Paul—funny, that was my exact reaction as well.

By: laura

laura — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:06:10 +0000

I went there but I didn’t see “Kieran” as a choice. Some guy named Kiernan was apparently very mean, but Kieran is an unblemished innocent as far as I can tell.

By: paul

paul — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 05:20:09 +0000

Well, you can’t say they don’t read your stuff (it doesn’t appear they understand it, but first things first). The post below the one you cite is interesting: I’m not sure how realistic the threat of running into an armored money carrier is or why I would want to lay a mid 6 figure sum to protect myself against it . . . different priorities, I guess.

By: robin green

robin green — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:04:45 +0000

“I hadn’t noticed any general derision, only admiration for its cleverness, but perhaps Fox News chose not to report the criticism of Rumsfeld’s remarks.” My goodness, he is actually being sarcastic here, isn’t he? He actually seems to believe that “oh if there had been significant criticism, Fox would have reported it”… Oh dear. As for the history of the far left… obviously then, analogously, studying the history of the far right is incredibly shocking and revolting, and makes you practically Hitler.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 02:28:26 +0000

“So a prejudicial remark is made about conservatives and this writer sees it as an opportunity to attack conservatives. Just precious.” Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! That’s so shocking! That’s awful, that’s appalling, that’s hard to believe, that’s stunning, I don’t know when I’ve been so scandalized. I’m horrified. I’m in agony. All my illusions have been shattered. Is that really how the left behaves? God, why aren’t they locked up then? The right never ever ever ever ever ever ever says mean things about anyone at all on the left ever ever ever ever. What a prat.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:42:40 +0000

Links to LGF. Should link to remedial spelling, but doesn’t realise depth of problem.

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:52:47 +0000

Can I also plead guilty to “uses Google and hyperlinks”. A search on “Rumsfeld+’known unknowns’” produces over 6000 responses, most of them derisive, and none of them apparently reported on Fox. I just linked to the top one. Of course, both Google and the Internet were produced by academics, so it’s far from surprising that they produce such unFoxlike results.

By: Brian Weatherson

Brian Weatherson — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:38:34 +0000

I thought the answer might be “All of the above” matched with “All of the above”. Maybe this isn’t obvious for attack 1, but since Conservatives have been down ever since 1997, and I’m sure all of us have attacked them one time since then, we all qualify for that.

By: Sebastian Holsclaw

Sebastian Holsclaw — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:34:55 +0000

I don’t think you are representative of academia at all. You are much less crazy than many academics. That is a compliment. Really! I’m just not good with compliments. :)

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:17:44 +0000

Hopefully, you’ve learned your lessons.