Kevin Myers at his best.
1 posted on
01/05/2005 4:19:09 AM PST by
Colosis
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To: Colosis
Few can wield the dagger so effectively and humorously.
To: Colosis
I don't think he liked her. (Thank heavens for dictionary.com.)
3 posted on
01/05/2005 4:28:10 AM PST by
KevinB
To: Colosis
She wasn't a Marxist? I'd argue otherwise.
Qwinn
4 posted on
01/05/2005 4:30:16 AM PST by
Qwinn
To: Colosis
He'd better take a number.
6 posted on
01/05/2005 4:31:45 AM PST by
The G Man
(The Red States ... the world's only hope for survival.)
To: Colosis
She hated white people, the west, America and business. Yet she chose to spend her life in cafes like Elaine's where only rich white people go, in a town that was built by and for business and little else.
You would think that she would have practiced what she preached and spent her time with swarthy third worlders in the developing world.
Limousine liberalism at its worst.
7 posted on
01/05/2005 4:33:07 AM PST by
Bon mots
To: Colosis
A satisfyingly sarcastic sayonara to Susie Sontag's soporific and sophomoric sonorities.
To: Colosis
My real mistake was not radioing her co-ordinates to the Serb artillery, reporting that they marked the location of Bosnian heavy armour. My own life would have been a cheap price to pay. Coffee, meet keyboard.
9 posted on
01/05/2005 4:38:20 AM PST by
10mm
To: Colosis
She reminds me, in fact a lot of the "intellectuals" remind me of oppositional two-year olds.
10 posted on
01/05/2005 4:40:04 AM PST by
OpusatFR
To: Colosis
She isn't the only one who needs a swift kick to the Depends
11 posted on
01/05/2005 4:42:13 AM PST by
GeronL
(I am NOT the real bin Laden)
To: Colosis
We can all do this kind of poser-cleverness, but we'll never find our way into any dictionaries of quotation because one has to have a certain academic status before one's pseudo-sage declarations come to be exalted as "sayings"
I've done this. I was trying to teach someone the skill of critical thinking. I had her head swimming with self-contradictions. At the end of it, I asked her what I'd said, and then admitted I'd said absolutely nothing.
13 posted on
01/05/2005 4:47:14 AM PST by
wolfpat
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14 posted on
01/05/2005 5:03:51 AM PST by
Stoat
To: Colosis
Another example of someone who is regarded as an 'intellectual' but in reality is as dumb as a post, as evidenced by his unshakable embrace of numerous ideas that have been endlessly disproven: Noam Chomsky.
15 posted on
01/05/2005 5:09:17 AM PST by
Stoat
To: Colosis
"Beneath the veneer of apparent profundity...there is usually a deep well of meaninglessness..."Well said, Kevin.
The same is true of the highly visible, self-proclaimed intellectual sophisticates who dominate the American Left, notably television "personalities", so-called "journalists", "academicians", and denizens of the "salons" of the Leftist enclaves.
Observation of these people reveals both limited intellect, generally camouflaged by "credentials", and lack of sophistication, generally camouflaged by pretense.
The November 2, 2004, election and the campaign leading to it were a glaring expose of the meaninglessness beneath the veneer of profundity that is the quintessence of the American Left and its emetic, if vacuous, spokespersons.
16 posted on
01/05/2005 5:14:31 AM PST by
Savage Beast
(The internet is the newspaper of record.)
To: Colosis
"Good health is the passing delusion of the doomed."Well, actually, the last one is mine.
It's the only one that's any good.
18 posted on
01/05/2005 5:25:50 AM PST by
Savage Beast
(The internet is the newspaper of record.)
To: Colosis
Who is this Mr. Myers? I confess I've never read his work before, but I certainly hope to fix that.
This is biting, and I agree with it, but the real appeal is how well written it is. I enjoy good writing.
To: Colosis
"a brilliant intellect can often be the companion to a truly asinine personality"
I'm keeping this one for myself.
21 posted on
01/05/2005 5:30:06 AM PST by
Imgr8t
To: Colosis
It was a grotesque performance.A good epitaph for Susan, I think.
28 posted on
01/05/2005 5:42:08 AM PST by
trisham
To: Colosis
In five years, no one under the age of 30 will have heard of her and likely never will. That's my obit for the self-obsessed crackpot.
30 posted on
01/05/2005 5:46:47 AM PST by
Pharmboy
(Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
To: Colosis
I just sent this to the entire Memphis Mensa newsgroup, with the following message:
"Perhaps my birthplace betrays me, but the sheer Britishness of what follows appeals to me in a manner independent of the subject. But the subject, whether officially Mensan or not, was "intellectual" for a living, and this criticism might be salutary for all of us - whether it applies specifically to any of us or not."
To: Colosis
Actually, I admire the epigrams of Oscar Wilde. There was truth in his wit. But Susan Sontag was a pretentious fool.
35 posted on
01/05/2005 7:23:57 AM PST by
joylyn
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