Comments on: Physician, Heal Thyself

By: q

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:28:49 +0000

Jack/Sherlock- Do you run your own blog?

By: Chrisper

Chrisper — Mon, 31 May 2004 08:44:23 +0000

I drop in to Crooked timber to get some alternative world-view comments. Being from Australia I am used to very homogeneous attitudes in my media commentators. It is terrific to get some diversity, in quality comments from places like Crooked timber, Oxblog – and Instapundit. Drop over to PC Watch or the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler if you want something to bitch about.

By: Insta_Irony

Insta_Irony — Sun, 30 May 2004 07:34:29 +0000

Dos Reynold read his own blog? You have to wonder. But boy, does he ever have a capacity for irony.

By: Tacitus

Tacitus — Sun, 30 May 2004 02:06:14 +0000

Read Tacitus who has the rigour to see that you can’t really describe the war as going well still find ways to argue that not invading would have been worse. On the contrary: I said precisely the opposite here.

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Sat, 29 May 2004 23:46:34 +0000

Indeed.

By: Mr Ripley

Mr Ripley — Sat, 29 May 2004 23:12:14 +0000

Heh. (I can’t believe I just wrote that)

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 29 May 2004 09:46:58 +0000

I bellieve that I read here of a name for the problem caused by assuming that one is right. Since most arguments are incomplete there is usually some description of the world that in which one remains right even in the face of the strongest evidence. It seems to me that bloggers are extremely prone to this. For example Steven den Beste arguing that the war was a Bush masterstroke that would cure the deficit problem by bringing oil down to $20 a barrel. Even more open minded souls suffer. Read Tacitus who has the rigour to see that you can’t really describe the war as going well still find ways to argue that not invading would have been worse. I believe the name was something like Buggin’s paradox where Buggin is a relatively recent and possibly British philosopher. If I am deluded in this I propose calling it the Sherlock Holmes fallacy. If you eliminate the apparently impossible and what remains is extremely improbable, it’s really worth checking if the alternatives really were impossible. cf Daniel’s latest post at d-squareddigest .

By: DCharles

DCharles — Sat, 29 May 2004 08:56:30 +0000

Isn’t Instapundit the guy who was worried that overuse of Free Speech might endanger its use? I would nominate him for an ILA (intellectual Laziness Award).

By: robbo

robbo — Sat, 29 May 2004 07:55:18 +0000

I do believe that’ll be my last hit on Instapundit. Not that I’ve visited him often before, but there’s just never any intellectual payoff. Just a lawyer playing with rhetoric, badly, pathetically trying to project brilliance and insight that are MIA. Who needs that bullshit?

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 29 May 2004 07:01:44 +0000

This is the problem with instapundit links, I really want to avoid clicking through to his site, giving him advertising money and increasing his pagehits by one for the next time he does one of those “5 trillion hits this month!” posts.

By: neil

neil — Sat, 29 May 2004 06:31:48 +0000

That guy is really a piece of work. The hypocrisy isn’t even out of context, for those of you who didn’t click through—Matt is criticizing him for scapegoating the Times and encouraging vandalism against their property.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Sat, 29 May 2004 06:23:34 +0000

Indeed.

By: Kip Manley

Kip Manley — Sat, 29 May 2004 05:49:14 +0000

That is one of the most clearly simple and singularly beautiful examples of projection I think I have ever seen. Breathtaking.

By: wcw

wcw — Sat, 29 May 2004 05:35:50 +0000

That’s the joke. I found it came across quite easily without clicking through or even knowing a bit of background.

By: fyreflye

fyreflye — Sat, 29 May 2004 05:34:11 +0000

Yes, Glenn does thrive on self-delusion.