Dowsed across this sig on a fandom forum, and it made me laugh:

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, ( Read more... )

all you can do in response to specific criticisms, is to invoke Authority - be it of official credentials, or age, or popular acclaim, be it on one's own behalf or on the behalf of others being criticized - and never once to actually address the specific criticisms made, then you're not going to get very far with me ( Read more... )

No wonder Anwyn's commentary on JRRT, ME, and LOTR/LOTR-M was always so shallow, pretentious and trite* - she is a fan of Ann Coulter, and thinks her a clear if betimes uncharitable thinker, which tells you everything you need to know about Anwyn and her critical capacity ...and why she'd relentlessly assert that Tolkien's characters and Secondary ( Read more... )

"If I had a dollar for every time someone said..."This is something that comes around in waves, it seems, in the wake of rounds of egregious pundit stupidity, and recently there have been more than enough storm-surges of the latter so it's not surprising there's a spike in the phenomenon of people saying that we should just ignore people like O' ( Read more... )