What's Wrong With Blogs (Free Republic mentioned)

Line 56 ^ | August 03, 2006 | Demir Barlas

[Hardastarboard]

Words are important. One of the curses of being educated is understanding the subtlety of words and their use, and seeing how they are constantly mis-used.

"Column fodder" in the place of "Cannon fodder" and "rather then" as opposed to "rather than" being two of my current pet peeves.

It's so EFFING simple. "Then" is a time; "Than" is a choice. How hard is that?

[Earthdweller]

"The article is just so much philosophical masturbation."

Bahahahaha! Lovin' it.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

the possibility that your position might be wrong or at least in need of more nuance.

Jim, could we have a little more nuance, please? I just crave ambiguity and lack of moral clarity. If the answer is no, could we at least have a bit more cowbell? ;^)

[freedumb2003]

To Demir Barlas Free Republic is not a blog, and certainly not a cult.

Since the Buckhead incident, the MSM has latched onto the word "blog" to mean "anything that happens on that computer-thingy."

[bert]

.....Didn't you get this morning's FR briefing?.....

Some of us get it early. I got it last night.

[freekitty]

LOL, This guy has convinced himself he has a brillent idea; so he goes on his own blog and promotes it. What bs.

[Hildy]

So birds of a feather flock together...tell us something we don't know.

[hellinahandcart]

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[iluvgeorgie]

Anyone know what time is the dinner for everyone who thinks like us for us to toast the demise of the devil liberal socialists?

Don't know the time, but heard about the event. I heard the drinks are spiked with cyanide. Something about meeting a comet.

[FreedomProtector]

"The problem with this can be illustrated by recourse to my pro wrestling analogy. The whole of pro wrestling is dominated by quick, decisive moves. You pick up someone and body slam them. You apply a sleeper hold. Every punch is a haymaker, every kick is apocalyptic, every move is dynamic.

Real wrestling is the opposite. You can be deadlocked for minutes at a time. Even matches between experts can, to the untrained eye, be quite unremarkable. There are very few decisive moves in the pro wrestling sense. Victory is far more subtle."


Next election cycle...new liberal busswords instead of "Red Meat" introduced simultaneously on multiple different mainstream liberal media outlets when a conservative mentions anything regarding pro-life or real tax cuts, the new ones: "fake wrestling", "pro wrestling" or "body slaming"


While are a good observations about the difference between pro-style wrestling and real-wrestling, they provide more insight into the mind of liberals.


Good writing and speaking is concise:

Being concise doesn't mean that one hasn't thought deeply about issues.

from Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style":

http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5.html#13

Omit needless words.
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."


Liberals like to ramble on and on without making a point.
Liberals arguments are quite unremarkable even to the trained eye. If liberals would make strong arguments for what they actually believed in, nobody would vote for them.

[newfarm4000n]

Liberals like to ramble on and on without making a point.
Liberals arguments are quite unremarkable even to the trained eye. If liberals would make strong arguments for what they actually believed in, nobody would vote for them.

Or if they do make a "point" it is rarely something that is remotely achievable hence testable.