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The Martyr Malkin on Blogging

"You have to accept that you'll never have many friends," Michelle Malkin says. "It's a lonely existence."

William Donohue - Whore

"The gay community has yet to apologize to straight people for all the damage that they have done."

I Don't Care

That Pete Rose lied about gambling.

That Britney got married in a drunken haze at 5:30 AM.

Why do you?

The Man Who Folded Himself, Again

I received this on December 6, 2001. Tonight I found a printed version in some old paperwork. Apparently I made a hard copy for prosperity because I found it such a singular spam. Intrigued I Googled the email address [email protected] and found this recent article, "Turn Back the Spam of Time" by Brian McWilliams at Wired.

Niklas Lindqvist has been keeping track of the alien time travel spam. I'll have to do some searching to see if I have any more copies. When Wired refers to the letter they reference a subject line which includes the word "Travellers" whereas mine does not. Niklas makes note of textual variances.

I have in my library Leaves of Grass : A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1892, 3 Vols. which really intrigued me when I got it at the Strand in NYC many years ago. I had never seen such a thing: a variorum.

Someday we will have variorums of publications on the web, for instance, I wonder how many versions of Kaycee are there? Why did Dave Hill create so many variants of his alien time travel spam? Is there a variorum of Dave Winer's writings? What happened to the "quick to be removed" Winer Watcher and how many copies still exist in the wild? Are there variants?

I assume we all realise that there will be academics someday studying these things. I can see it now:

"Early-Modern Blogosphere: Literative Culture & Transgressive Identity"

"September 11th Foretold: Heaven's Gate & Internet Culture at the Turn of the Century"

"A Vaviorum of Megnut: the Kinja Directive & its Role in Post Iraq America"

The Man Who Folded Himself, Again

I received this on December 6, 2001. Tonight I found a printed version in some old paperwork. Apparently I made a hard copy for prosperity because I found it such a singular spam. Intrigued I Googled the email address [email protected] and found this recent article, "Turn Back the Spam of Time" by Brian McWilliams at Wired.

Niklas Lindqvist has been keeping track of the alien time travel spam. I'll have to do some searching to see if I have any more copies. When Wired refers to the letter they reference a subject line which includes the word "Travellers" whereas mine does not. Niklas makes note of textual variances.

I have in my library Leaves of Grass : A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1892, 3 Vols. which really intrigued me when I got it at the Strand in NYC many years ago. I had never seen such a thing: a variorum.

Someday we will have variorums of publications on the web, for instance, I wonder how many versions of Kaycee are there? Why did Dave Hill create so many variants of his alien time travel spam? Is there a variorum of Dave Winer's writings? What happened to the "quick to be removed" Winer Watcher and how many copies still exist in the wild? Are there variants?

I assume we all realise that there will be academics someday studying these things. I can see it now:

"Early-Modern Blogosphere: Literative Culture & Transgressive Identity"

"September 11th Foretold: Heaven's Gate & Internet Culture at the Turn of the Century"

"A Vaviorum of Megnut: the Kinja Directive & its Role in Post Iraq America"

The Morons Among Us

The whole "African-American" community! Wow that must suck. Are they really big and have huge cocks? Do they steal your women? Come on fess up, do they? Come on I see that smile on your face. Do you get to watch?

The Morons Among Us

The whole "African-American" community! Wow that must suck. Are they really big and have huge cocks? Do they steal your women? Come on fess up, do they? Come on I see that smile on your face. Do you get to watch?

A Small Primer in Logic

You are a coward. And an easily confused and ill-informed one at that. Now listen up boy while I explain the meaning of ad hominem. Ad hominem literally means "against the interlocutor, person, or man/woman" in its original Latin. In arguments ad hominem attacks are one of the most common & most easily ignored fallacies of logic. The basic structure goes like this:

1. You boy, make declaration of X.
2. I say "You are an ignorant boy."
3. Therefore your claim of X is wrong.

This is quite obviously a statement of nonsense. You may be an ignorant boy but that has nothing whatsoever to do with statement X. In fact my pointing out that you are an ignorant boy is not only an ad hominem attack but could also be considered a red herring. In making such a statement I am attempting to produce an irrelevant topic, your ignorance & youth, in order to divert attention from your point X.

With this knowledge available let's look at a few examples shall we. For instance if you were to write:

"Gay and lesbian relationships couldn't be of any possible value considering the fact that God unequivocally condemned homosexuality as an abomination."

I might counter with the very witty, "Ah but you sir have bad breath and your mother dresses you funny so therefore gay and lesbian relationships do have value." But alas this would be an ad hominem attack on your argument. To be quite honest it wouldn't have any bearing on your contention that gay and lesbian relationships have no value no matter how funny you dress or how badly your breath may smell.

See, wasn't that fun (and informative too)!

So, boy, when I call you a coward that is not an ad hominem attack because I am not arguing your point. I am simply calling you a name. I think you are a coward. It is simple as that.

(Suffice it to say anyone who can use the word unnatural to make a point is, well, definately my intellectual better and I dare not go there.)

A Small Primer in Logic

You are a coward. And an easily confused and ill-informed one at that. Now listen up boy while I explain the meaning of ad hominem. Ad hominem literally means "against the interlocutor, person, or man/woman" in its original Latin. In arguments ad hominem attacks are one of the most common & most easily ignored fallacies of logic. The basic structure goes like this:

1. You boy, make declaration of X.
2. I say "You are an ignorant boy."
3. Therefore your claim of X is wrong.

This is quite obviously a statement of nonsense. You may be an ignorant boy but that has nothing whatsoever to do with statement X. In fact my pointing out that you are an ignorant boy is not only an ad hominem attack but could also be considered a red herring. In making such a statement I am attempting to produce an irrelevant topic, your ignorance & youth, in order to divert attention from your point X.

With this knowledge available let's look at a few examples shall we. For instance if you were to write:

"Gay and lesbian relationships couldn't be of any possible value considering the fact that God unequivocally condemned homosexuality as an abomination."

I might counter with the very witty, "Ah but you sir have bad breath and your mother dresses you funny so therefore gay and lesbian relationships do have value." But alas this would be an ad hominem attack on your argument. To be quite honest it wouldn't have any bearing on your contention that gay and lesbian relationships have no value no matter how funny you dress or how badly your breath may smell.

See, wasn't that fun (and informative too)!

So, boy, when I call you a coward that is not an ad hominem attack because I am not arguing your point. I am simply calling you a name. I think you are a coward. It is simple as that.

(Suffice it to say anyone who can use the word unnatural to make a point is, well, definately my intellectual better and I dare not go there.)

The Weight of Fandom

In other news, Steve has lost his job. While I'd like to take full credit all I can say is stick around a bit longer and I'll have your first born & wife as well!