It takes a special kind of genius to write this badly

[ludickid]

If I really cared, I would rank Jonah Goldberg higher.

For years now, my fellow conservative-laugh-atters have placed this well-born Star Trek geek turned professional blowhard as the pinnacle of right-wing obnoxiousness. It's an opinion I never fully got behind; loathsome as the Doughy Pantload was, he never really seemed like his heart was

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[oilyrags]

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/06/jonah-goldbergs-shining.html

Liberal Fascism in cat macros. Yeah, well, it's a slow day here at 'work.'

[lunchcat]

Seriously, I just give up. I'm going to start a commune somewhere and just plug my ears and pretend the world is something much, much better, filled with fluffy bunnies and unicorns.

[perich]

I like to envision him lying asleep, tossing and turning fitfully. Suddenly, he bolts upright in bed.

"Alliteration!" he cries. "that's what I've been missing. A catchy, alliterative title!"

Dazed at his own wit, he falls back asleep.

[drownedinink]

...when he was allegedly writing a section on Herbert Spencer, he quizzed his blog readers to summarize the man's thinking for him so he didn't have to read any of it himself.

Jesus, he couldn't even be bothered to resort to Wikipedia and Cliff Notes?

BTW, thanks for the write-up on my own wingnut nemesis, OSC. I thought you'd like to know that, according to my friend Michelle who also read the essay in question, Orson got all the information about the Lynne Olson book from an interview on "Booknotes" she also saw.

[ortho_bob]

It's interesting to see that Panty Doughload is switched his target from liberals to libertarians with this title change. See, the founder of Whole Foods, John Mackey, describes himself as "a free market libertarian". But he is one of those troublesome libertarians who knows Adam Smith wrote more than one book -- and thus places as much emphasis on The Theory of Moral Sentiments as The Wealth of Nations. More research for Goldberg's G-Philes to do for him, I guess....

[ortho_bob]

John Mackey: When we are small children we are egocentric, concerned only about our own needs and desires. As we mature, most people grow beyond this egocentrism and begin to care about others--their families, friends, communities, and countries. Our capacity to love can expand even further: to loving people from different races, religions, and countries--potentially to unlimited love for all people and even for other sentient creatures. This is our potential as human beings, to take joy in the flourishing of people everywhere. Whole Foods gives money to our communities because we care about them and feel a responsibility to help them flourish as well as possible. -- "Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business," Reason, 2005.

Pantload: Fascist!