Isn’t it just enough that the _National Review Online_ seems to have published dodgy reporting on massive (and apparently entirely imaginary) Hezbollah invasions of chunks of Beirut, without the source of said reportage being the “co-author”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/01/in-the-tank-did-national_n_74954.html of _The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design_ ? ? Sweet.
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blatherskite 12.02.07 at 6:08 pm
Co-author?
That makes him not quite bright enough to be a complete idiot.
Even about as dumb a subject such as Idiotic Design.
eric 12.02.07 at 6:54 pm
I suspect that the readership of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design overlaps substantially with the readership of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Home Schooling. In both cases, of course, the “complete idiot” designation is redundant.
The Next to Last Pope 12.02.07 at 7:37 pm
I thought you were joking about the book title until I clicked on the link. At least he understands his readership.
Bryan 12.02.07 at 8:10 pm
Also, strangely enough, he’s co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pirates. Obviously a “polymath” on par with Micheal Medved, movie critic and historian of slavery.
josh 12.02.07 at 8:23 pm
Ah. I’d always assumed, seeing them on the shelves, that the Complete Idiot’s Guides were designed FOR use by complete idiots. Now I realise that the title actually reflects those they are written BY. Good to know.
(Incidentally, any bets on how many of the folks up in arms about the alleged misrepresentations by the soldier writing in the New Republic will also condemn NRO for publishing these, um, creative reports? Anyone?)
thompsaj 12.02.07 at 8:51 pm
@6, there were several trollish comments about the subject of beauchamp and tnr at Political Animal. Suffice to say that the answer is “few if any”.
Helen 12.02.07 at 11:23 pm
Bryan,
He’s evidently working on a counter theory to that of the Church of the Great Flying Spaghetti monster.
It’s true! There’s a table and everything! Global warming, intelligent design and pirates are inextricably interlinked.
Rowz 12.03.07 at 3:18 am
#3 – Regarding homeschoolers:
“Major findings include: the achievement test scores of this group of home school students are exceptionally high–the median scores were typically in the 70th to 80th percentile…”
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8/
I imagine this is mostly or entirely selection, but, well, that’s the point.
bad Jim 12.03.07 at 8:55 am
A title like “The Complete Idiot’s Guide” may, if taken to refer to the author, be more accurate than the similar “Politically Incorrect Guide”, but the latter has a more descriptive acronym.
The Bee 12.03.07 at 11:02 pm
—dodgy reporting on massive (and apparently entirely imaginary) Hezbollah invasions of chunks of Beirut
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But, but, people on the ground have reported for months that a Hezbollah tent city has blocked of inner Beirut as well as parliament.
Now what do we believe?
eric 12.04.07 at 12:54 am
#11
My jibe wasn’t aimed at home schoolers in general, but limited to people who would attempt something as demanding as home schooling on the basis of a “Complete Idiot’s Guide”. I can see how that wasn’t clear.
Master Mahan 12.04.07 at 2:17 am
A Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design can’t be that hard to write. All you need to do is cross out the word God every time it appears in the Guide to Creationism and replace it with designer. Easy money.
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