Posted on 04/27/2005 1:04:59 PM PDT by abork
"Because listening to her is like hitting your head with a hammer: It's fun when she stops."
This writer is such an original! What insight combined with what humor. It sums up everything in one little quip so I don't have to read further. How thoughtful of the author. Verily, an editor's dream. A child of Shakespeare crossed with Dorothy Parker.
Typical liberal. It's about how it makes one feel, actual results aside. The most frightening thing one can hear a liberal say: "I feel..." Usually, right after "feel" comes a hardworking conservative pay for whatever spontaneous cerebral flatulence the liberal brought forth.
The closest thing to violence that Mr. Coleman can describe is "heated verbal volleys". Oh dear, did someone get his feelings hurt?
Also, Nick Coleman's use of the term "groves of the academy" put me in mind of Ambrose Bierce's distinction:
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Academy, indeed.
I tried to read the whole thing but the guy is such a dull writer. Maybe he's mad because Anne can write in a way that makes people want to keep reading it.
I think the best rule for writers is: If you have a point, make it.
Like that that Polonious dude said when trying to break the bad new to Gertrude and Claudius, brevity is the soul of wit. And liberals don't believe in the soul, which is why they are such dull, witless writers to read. Or attempt to read.
Okay, I read all of Nick Coleman's column no where did he cite anything that Ann Coulter said. No one did he have a disagreement with the content of her speech. So what was this? Simply an attack on Ann Coulter?
Nick Coleman - the Minneapolis Star Tribune - a perfect marriage of leftists.
That Nick Coleman guy is a real jerkhole. He had a nasty article in the Sunday paper also and I wrote a letter to the editor in response. Hope they publish it.
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