Comments on: Worst pundit ever

By: peter ramus

peter ramus — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:49:54 +0000

Desperation isn’t the half of it, chris h.

Even a known idiot like me understands the danger of intelligence in service to a canard.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:06:49 +0000

The most frustrating thing about reading criticisms of Hitchens is that his detractors are so very much less intelligent than him. Desperation is the word to describe those that resort to ‘douchebag’ retorts and irrelevant rejoinders like PoorMan’s centrifuge rant. Why is it CT devolves into schoolboy mode whenever Hitchens is mentioned, poking him here and there (ineffectively) at every available opportunity? It’s hardly interesting.

By: peter ramus

peter ramus — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:20 +0000

That underline is a Textile thingie.

A total hack: Surround the entire text of your comment with blockquote tags, and paragraphs will appear as expected after two strokes of the return key. Your comments will be taller and thinner, too.

By: Steve LaBonne

Steve LaBonne — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:12:19 +0000

Oops, it happens even with a space between the underline and the word!

By: Steve LaBonne

Steve LaBonne — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:11:33 +0000

I discovered accidentally that underlines before and after the word are also interpreted as italics (remove the space before the word and you get)—> italics.

By: Matt McGrattan

Matt McGrattan — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:58:18 +0000

Not really relevant to the thread but the reason for the change from to is that the former is a piece of ‘physical’ mark-up—it tells the browser how the text ought to look. The latter is a ‘logical’ tag and tells the browser that the text is ‘emphasized’ but not how.
This may seem like a trivial distinction in an ordinary browser where and look the same but it matters a lot in, for example, a screen reader for the blind which emphasizes text in a different way.

By: Phillip J. Birmingham

Phillip J. Birmingham — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:28:03 +0000

For some reason or other is the common XHTML tag replacing .
stands for “emphasis.” has been deprecated in HTML for a while, if I recall correctly.

By: peter ramus

peter ramus — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:17:07 +0000

Strange but true:
For some reason or other is the common XHTML tag replacing .

By: no, not again, sorry

no, not again, sorry — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:49:12 +0000

And fixing things so that italics and line breaks aren’t illegal might be nice, too.

By: Gary Farber

Gary Farber — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:47:07 +0000

And yet.
And no offense intended, Ted, but I kinda thought “douche bag” as an insult had some considerably misogynistic implications. However, never let me stand in the way of a good screed; if one doesn’t relieve the bad humours, the results might be even less pretty.
Is there any chance the commenting mechanism might be fixed so that one doesn’t have to retype personal info in each time?

Ah: Unfortunately your comment is not well-formed according to the XML rules or contains illegal tags and/or attributes. Here is a list of the errors found while validating your comment:

Illegal tag: i
[Bad Words Here]

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:36:11 +0000

I think that the results would have been better if you had bargained harder, and had insisted that it was incumbent upon them to start using language appropriate to the times.
So is this why I can’t seem to get a link from y’all, just because I occasionally ask one of your trolls to go piss up a rope?

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:06:19 +0000

No, the World’s Biggest Douchebag is actually you, Ted Barlow.
M….Mom?

By: Uncle Kvetch

Uncle Kvetch — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:01:27 +0000

The trouble with naming a Worst Pundit Ever is the competition.
I just assumed the post was going to be about Jonah Goldberg.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:33:26 +0000

No, the World’s Biggest Douchebag is actually you, Ted Barlow. Hey, this is fun! What’s wrong with a cesspool of personal invective?

By: P O\'Neill

P O\'Neill — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:30:05 +0000

The trouble with naming a Worst Pundit Ever is the competition. Only today, Daily Howler catches George Will engaged in utter hackery, botching what was already a rickety Social Security surplus spin point. And he shares with Hitch the supreme self-confidence with which opinions are expressed.