Comments for Re:harmonized http://reharmonized.an-earful.com All kinds of music and whatever else sounds reasonable Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:48:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Fighting like a Republican and losing like John Aravosis by Let's end the envy and pledge allegiance to the one percent | Re:harmonized http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/12/fighting-like-a-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-3831 Let's end the envy and pledge allegiance to the one percent | Re:harmonized Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:48:36 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=816#comment-3831 <p>[...] Romney says he’ll Keep America America, but to do that he’ll have to Restore America. The United States has lost a lot of America [...]</p> […] Romney says he’ll Keep America America, but to do that he’ll have to Restore America. The United States has lost a lot of America […]

]]> Comment on Todd Willingham’s witch trial: the preposterous prosecution by Prosecutorial Misconduct | Justice & Reform http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2010/08/todd-willinghams-witch-trial-prosecution/comment-page-1/#comment-3806 Prosecutorial Misconduct | Justice & Reform Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:59:05 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=508#comment-3806 <p>[...] and “very likely” that Willingham’s alleged arson murder of his children was some kind of “devil worship thing.” To this day, Jackson rejects all the fire forensic reports—a total of seven—which have [...]</p> […] and “very likely” that Willingham’s alleged arson murder of his children was some kind of “devil worship thing.” To this day, Jackson rejects all the fire forensic reports—a total of seven—which have […]

]]> Comment on High-IQ stupidity by ezra abrams http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/12/high-iq-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-3795 ezra abrams Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:39:03 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=789#comment-3795 <p>in case you are wondering why no one comments on this post, which suggest few readers... the firt few paragraphs are incomprehensible to soneone who doesn't already know all the dramatix personae, but they do show off the worst sin of a writer, showing off the remainder of the post is so long, and such navel gazing..... KISSaH (keep it simple, stupid, and humble)</p> in case you are wondering why no one comments on this post, which suggest few readers…
the firt few paragraphs are incomprehensible to soneone who doesn’t already know all the dramatix personae, but they do show off the worst sin of a writer, showing off
the remainder of the post is so long, and such navel gazing…..
KISSaH (keep it simple, stupid, and humble)

]]> Comment on How did Abe Foxman get all Foxed in with Roger and Glenn? by Fighting like a Republican and losing like John Aravosis | Re:harmonized http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/01/how-did-foxman-get-foxed/comment-page-1/#comment-3786 Fighting like a Republican and losing like John Aravosis | Re:harmonized Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:08:04 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=666#comment-3786 <p>[...] too powerful to feel persecuted when feeling persecuted is in your ideological DNA. Roger Ailes, supposedly apologizing for calling NPR execs Nazis — not apologizing to NPR, of course, but instead to his buddy Abe Foxman at the Anti-Defamation [...]</p> […] too powerful to feel persecuted when feeling persecuted is in your ideological DNA. Roger Ailes, supposedly apologizing for calling NPR execs Nazis — not apologizing to NPR, of course, but instead to his buddy Abe Foxman at the Anti-Defamation […]

]]> Comment on Cryptic campus radicals and conservatives crying wolf by Fighting like a Republican and losing like John Aravosis | Re:harmonized http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2010/12/cryptic-campus-radicals-conservatives-crying-wolf/comment-page-1/#comment-3784 Fighting like a Republican and losing like John Aravosis | Re:harmonized Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:02:38 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=651#comment-3784 <p>[...] of informing the public. I know it well from my dealings with the academic hack KC Johnson. Give no context but plenty of rhetorical subtext. Point readers in the direction you want them to go but take no [...]</p> […] of informing the public. I know it well from my dealings with the academic hack KC Johnson. Give no context but plenty of rhetorical subtext. Point readers in the direction you want them to go but take no […]

]]> Comment on High-IQ stupidity by Sunday Reading « zunguzungu http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/12/high-iq-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-3769 Sunday Reading « zunguzungu Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:20:23 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=789#comment-3769 <p>[...] High-IQ stupidity: I once heard a female professor of mathematics talk about an encounter she had with a senior colleague soon after taking her first faculty job. He told her that he didn’t think she belonged there because he knew for a fact that women weren’t good at math. Coming from a math professor, of all people, the reasoning is mind-boggling — surely he understood the basics of probability distributions. It could be true that on average women are less capable mathematicians than men and also true that this particular woman was more capable than most men, including a certain professor standing in the hall making an ass of himself at that very moment. [...]</p> […] High-IQ stupidity: I once heard a female professor of mathematics talk about an encounter she had with a senior colleague soon after taking her first faculty job. He told her that he didn’t think she belonged there because he knew for a fact that women weren’t good at math. Coming from a math professor, of all people, the reasoning is mind-boggling — surely he understood the basics of probability distributions. It could be true that on average women are less capable mathematicians than men and also true that this particular woman was more capable than most men, including a certain professor standing in the hall making an ass of himself at that very moment. […]

]]> Comment on High-IQ stupidity by Patrick S http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/12/high-iq-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-3739 Patrick S Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:41:37 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=789#comment-3739 <p>I'm with you, man. That Jeff G just makes my head spin. Might be the peyote, might be the prose. Guess I shouldn't have had all that cough syrup.</p> I’m with you, man. That Jeff G just makes my head spin. Might be the peyote, might be the prose. Guess I shouldn’t have had all that cough syrup.

]]> Comment on High-IQ stupidity by Robert Zimmerman http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/12/high-iq-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-3741 Robert Zimmerman Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:30:23 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=789#comment-3741 <p>Hey, serr8d, I see you're hip to Goldsteinian intentialism, too! As in, read whatever the fuck you want into the text, as long as it makes you look and feel good. But you're right, the post is long and boring. I was kind of depressed about that when I finished it. I feel better now, though — thanks.</p> <p>I like Goldstein's <a href="http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=32605#comment-1148914" rel="nofollow">comment over on PW</a> even more.</p> <blockquote> Why is it, do you think, that the preferred attack on me is that I'm an intellectual fraud -- this has come from both the left and the right, from academics and lawyers -- ... </blockquote> <p>Yeah, like Donald Trump. Why do people always wanna call him a clown? And Bernie Madoff. Why is it that everyone — left, right, gay, straight, living, dead, undead, unborn — calls him a crook? There's gotta be a <i>reason</i>!</p> <blockquote> ...and that the driving force behind the charge is that I seem to be able to ape the language of the academy [<i>I didn't suggest anything like "aping"</i>], but that I nevertheless <i>use</i> my (powerful but quite superficial) rhetorical skills in silly, "iconoclastic" [<i>I used the word for his beliefs, not his language</i>] ways to promote intellectually vapid notions (in needlessly dense prose) [<i>yes, like right now</i>] that do little to <i>actually challenge</i> established academic notions about where meaning is to be anchored [<i>who cares?</i>], how interpretation actually works, [<i>none of this has anything to do with my post...</i>] and why these things -- the subversion of which is intended, cynically, as a means toward political ends, and yet has become a marker for contemporary epistemology -- matter outside the rather arcane world of literary theory? </blockquote> <p>Wow, that's a really loooonnnnggg question! And all I wanted to know was why folks like me and others totally not like me call him an intellectual fraud. Let's see...</p> <blockquote> If I am "an intellectual fraud, a billowing gasbag of pedantry, hypocrisy, and self-pity, and the perfect poster boy for the puffed-up but ultimately hollow cult of superior intelligence," why spend so much time <i>insisting on it</i>? Clearly I'm not worth the trouble -- especially if you find yourself criticizing my pedantry in a blog post that features fucking <i>footnotes</i>. Right? </blockquote> <p>But wait, that's kind of a bait and switch, isn't it?</p> <p>Anyway, it's great to see that all he can come up with is evasive bullshit and lame ad-hominem. Otherwise I'd worry that I missed my target.</p> Hey, serr8d, I see you’re hip to Goldsteinian intentialism, too! As in, read whatever the fuck you want into the text, as long as it makes you look and feel good. But you’re right, the post is long and boring. I was kind of depressed about that when I finished it. I feel better now, though — thanks.

I like Goldstein’s comment over on PW even more.

Why is it, do you think, that the preferred attack on me is that I’m an intellectual fraud — this has come from both the left and the right, from academics and lawyers — …

Yeah, like Donald Trump. Why do people always wanna call him a clown? And Bernie Madoff. Why is it that everyone — left, right, gay, straight, living, dead, undead, unborn — calls him a crook? There’s gotta be a reason!

…and that the driving force behind the charge is that I seem to be able to ape the language of the academy [I didn’t suggest anything like “aping”], but that I nevertheless use my (powerful but quite superficial) rhetorical skills in silly, “iconoclastic” [I used the word for his beliefs, not his language] ways to promote intellectually vapid notions (in needlessly dense prose) [yes, like right now] that do little to actually challenge established academic notions about where meaning is to be anchored [who cares?], how interpretation actually works, [none of this has anything to do with my post…] and why these things — the subversion of which is intended, cynically, as a means toward political ends, and yet has become a marker for contemporary epistemology — matter outside the rather arcane world of literary theory?

Wow, that’s a really loooonnnnggg question! And all I wanted to know was why folks like me and others totally not like me call him an intellectual fraud. Let’s see…

If I am “an intellectual fraud, a billowing gasbag of pedantry, hypocrisy, and self-pity, and the perfect poster boy for the puffed-up but ultimately hollow cult of superior intelligence,” why spend so much time insisting on it? Clearly I’m not worth the trouble — especially if you find yourself criticizing my pedantry in a blog post that features fucking footnotes. Right?

But wait, that’s kind of a bait and switch, isn’t it?

Anyway, it’s great to see that all he can come up with is evasive bullshit and lame ad-hominem. Otherwise I’d worry that I missed my target.

]]> Comment on High-IQ stupidity by serr8d http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/12/high-iq-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-3738 serr8d Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:31:32 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=789#comment-3738 <p>Seems your intent was, using some 25-plus entry paragraphs of yawn-inducing fluffery (oh! and those three footnotes are teh <i>icing</i>, my man!), to set-up those last two sentences; two sentences that are nothing more than a run-of-the-mill crescendo of so-obvious LeftLibProgg hatreds. As a matter of fact, I'd guess you wrote those two lines first, then sat around for months consuming no telling how many joints, picking and grinning on your two-string lute, trying to figure out a way to properly get 'em out there without seeming so spiteful, hateful and jealous.</p> <p>A shame, really. All that work for nothing, as you still come across as insanely spiteful, hateful, jealous, and, unfortunately for your own eggshell ego, easily dismissed.</p> Seems your intent was, using some 25-plus entry paragraphs of yawn-inducing fluffery (oh! and those three footnotes are teh icing, my man!), to set-up those last two sentences; two sentences that are nothing more than a run-of-the-mill crescendo of so-obvious LeftLibProgg hatreds. As a matter of fact, I’d guess you wrote those two lines first, then sat around for months consuming no telling how many joints, picking and grinning on your two-string lute, trying to figure out a way to properly get ‘em out there without seeming so spiteful, hateful and jealous.

A shame, really. All that work for nothing, as you still come across as insanely spiteful, hateful, jealous, and, unfortunately for your own eggshell ego, easily dismissed.

]]> Comment on High-IQ stupidity by JeffG http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2011/12/high-iq-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-3737 JeffG Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:04:46 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/?p=789#comment-3737 <p>"He’s also an intellectual fraud, a billowing gasbag of pedantry, hypocrisy, and self-pity, and the perfect poster boy for the puffed-up but ultimately hollow cult of superior intelligence."</p> <p>That's a keeper for the rotating blurbs, thanks!</p> “He’s also an intellectual fraud, a billowing gasbag of pedantry, hypocrisy, and self-pity, and the perfect poster boy for the puffed-up but ultimately hollow cult of superior intelligence.”

That’s a keeper for the rotating blurbs, thanks!

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