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Okay, no, this is just too funny. It's too over-the-top crackpot for me to take it remotely seriously. (And it's not as if the rabid dog in question is a mere fence away, thanks to the internet...) This nutcase makes James *Dobson*'s rhetoric look centrist and coherent.
Here is the comment I left on on the foam-flecked blog post:
I came across Untergehen In Das Unbehagen: Going Down From My Mountain To The Brokeback Monsters quite by accident, using Technorati's spiffy blogs-search engine to look for ...something else *entirely*. Really, I can't quite imagine the search terms I'd have to have chosen if I *were* trying to find something like this thing.
One of the neat things about a Technorati search is that it tells you how many other blogs link to each search-result post. At least when I came across it, the number of blogs linking to "Untergehen auf Brokeback Monsters" was zero. My comment on it was the first.
Being not unmindful of the opportunity here, I decided I should encourage as many people to join me in mocking Mr James G. Poulos as I can get. Feel free to link your friends and family here (or directly to the blogspot page). Permission to metaquote is granted.
Just in case the glory that is "Going Down From My Mountain To The Brokeback Monsters" should disappear, the internet being the fickle beast it is, the full text is ( below the cut: )
I can't help but be further amused that self-proclaimed "Essayist, free lance, & career academic" Poulos, seemingly so proud of his dubious bit of blog fame, plays so fast and loose with basic rules of usage involving little things like capitalisation of articles mid-title. But, well, as anybody who knows me can tell you, I really am anal...
edited to add: For clarity's sake, I am not suggesting anyone actually *argue* any point with Poulos (though I'm also not telling anyone what to do; what's the fun in that?). It seems fairly clear that'd be a lost cause. I just think anybody who says things like he has publicly deserves to be laughed at publicly -- long and loud.
Here is the comment I left on on the foam-flecked blog post:
This is hilarious! It reminds me a little of those spam e-mails made up of jumbled-together search-result text, only it's (almost) all complete sentences. I'm curious, are you schizophrenic, and if not, where did you learn to emulate their paranoiac faulty-causal and reifying constructions so well?
On that note, I have a friend who teaches university-level logic and debate... would you mind if I pointed him to your brilliant satire here, since it contains examples of nearly every argumentative fallacy there is?
I came across Untergehen In Das Unbehagen: Going Down From My Mountain To The Brokeback Monsters quite by accident, using Technorati's spiffy blogs-search engine to look for ...something else *entirely*. Really, I can't quite imagine the search terms I'd have to have chosen if I *were* trying to find something like this thing.
One of the neat things about a Technorati search is that it tells you how many other blogs link to each search-result post. At least when I came across it, the number of blogs linking to "Untergehen auf Brokeback Monsters" was zero. My comment on it was the first.
Being not unmindful of the opportunity here, I decided I should encourage as many people to join me in mocking Mr James G. Poulos as I can get. Feel free to link your friends and family here (or directly to the blogspot page). Permission to metaquote is granted.
Just in case the glory that is "Going Down From My Mountain To The Brokeback Monsters" should disappear, the internet being the fickle beast it is, the full text is ( below the cut: )
I can't help but be further amused that self-proclaimed "Essayist, free lance, & career academic" Poulos, seemingly so proud of his dubious bit of blog fame, plays so fast and loose with basic rules of usage involving little things like capitalisation of articles mid-title. But, well, as anybody who knows me can tell you, I really am anal...
edited to add: For clarity's sake, I am not suggesting anyone actually *argue* any point with Poulos (though I'm also not telling anyone what to do; what's the fun in that?). It seems fairly clear that'd be a lost cause. I just think anybody who says things like he has publicly deserves to be laughed at publicly -- long and loud.
