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The Ideal Platonic Blog Post
You can now stop reading blog comment threads forever. Jim Henley and his readers have stripped away all but the essentials to reveal the pure form of the blog post/discussion, producing what Radley Balko calls "one of the greatest collaborative compositions in the history of the Internet."
R C Dean|4.12.06 @ 1:07PM|#
Blames all on corn syrup. Points to discovery process as vehicle for scientific discovery.
|4.12.06 @ 1:12PM|#
I was going to read through all of the comments on there, but it just keeps going! IT's (h)UGE!
|4.12.06 @ 1:46PM|#
Trollish nonsensical remark followed by overgeneralizing insult--e.g., You are all idiots if you don't agree with my wrong-on-its-face assertion.
|4.12.06 @ 1:46PM|#
the roman empire did things differently, which is why our civilization is going down the tubes.
|4.12.06 @ 1:47PM|#
pointless introduction:
A) useless point for argumentative aesthetics
B) useless point for argumentative aesthetics
C) unclear argument
another unclear rehash of fallacious statement made in C with
adhominem.
Equivocation due to harsh languge in unclear rehash.
* Ctrl-A delete to start over *
* Back button because a sense of humor is lacking *
|4.12.06 @ 1:50PM|#
I don't think the idea is that we repeat the experiment on
H&R.
Comment by matthew hogan ?
April 9, 2006 @ 5:14 am
Nobody expects some kind of obscure Monty Python
allusion.
theOneState|4.12.06 @ 2:15PM|#
The only thing I don't see is the comment that was deleted without a trace.
|4.12.06 @ 3:06PM|#
Statement made by conservative that libertarians are naive and out of touch with reality.
|4.12.06 @ 3:08PM|#
Statement made by liberal that libertarians are naive and out of touch with reality.
|4.12.06 @ 3:09PM|#
Statement made by liberal that libertarians are naive and out of touch with reality.
|4.12.06 @ 3:09PM|#
Three or more paragraphs composed principally of compound-complex sentences, with one (or, too frequently, more) parenthetical expressions(s) per paragraph. Recently Googled quotes and/or HTMLs adding a patina of ersatz authority in lieu of genuine erudition or personal insight. Relatively dry commentary of an obliquely didactic nature occasionally punctuated with expressions of wry bemusement or what, in any case, by blog standards, passes for it. Too many commas.
|4.12.06 @ 3:10PM|#
Statement made by liberal that libertarians are naive and out of touch with reality.
|4.12.06 @ 3:13PM|#
Statement by libertarian implying that non-libertarians are either evil or just haven't thought it through clearly.
|4.12.06 @ 3:40PM|#
Post with a reference to A Titled Work but with failure to close the HTML tags so that almost the entire multi-line post is in italics, and so on and so on and so on.
|4.12.06 @ 3:49PM|#
Incoherent post by a noob who has obviously never read anything on the site before, accusing everyone of rabidly pro-Bush partisan views that no one here actually holds.
|4.12.06 @ 3:51PM|#
Statement by Jersey McJ asserting that if Libertarians were true to their philosophy they should be uniformly against collaberative compositions.
|4.12.06 @ 4:01PM|#
Post for the express purpose of saying that this thread is so boring it's not even worth the time to post in.
|4.12.06 @ 4:01PM|#
Condemning post about how those 'whole foods' wackos are against the progress of bio-engineering followed immediately by a statement of "that being said I shop at Whole Foods on occasion."
|4.12.06 @ 4:11PM|#
emphatic post expressing the idea that I can criticize something without wanting to make it illegal!
|4.12.06 @ 4:34PM|#
I'm new to this but I must say this is the best blog site ever. I'm bookmarking it!
|4.12.06 @ 5:55PM|#
Followed by Cavanaugh banning the poster who signed on as the Reason Pillow Girl.
Steve Bozell|4.12.06 @ 6:34PM|#
My attorney Delores Blasingame tells me that I can sue all of
you for income lost due to my having to read through all of these
useless posts.
And I'm suing my wife for buying me the computer and my daughter
April for not doing her homework on the computer thereby impeding
me from having been trapped inside this thread.
(weeps uncontrollably)
|4.12.06 @ 7:17PM|#
I'll put my money on Carpet Humping Guy to kick Chuck Norris's ass any day of the week.
|4.12.06 @ 7:33PM|#
A quick rebuttal stating that "We Christards are at least Holy enough to restart the Inquisition."
Spammer bot|4.12.06 @ 9:46PM|#
|4.13.06 @ 1:08AM|#
Comment relating the post to my own personal situation, implying
that it should likewise apply to the personal circumstances of all
other readers. High-handed brushoff of anticipated objection.
Additional comment pointing out that not all vegetarians care if
you eat steak.
Afterthought apologizing for the somewhat strident tone of the
first paragraph.
|4.13.06 @ 3:28AM|#
I think all of you guys just need to cool down the idealogy a
bit. I mean us joe schmoes just want to get by and all this talk of
freedom just grates on the nerves, I mean whats in it for the
little guy, you know?
Your friend in the "mainstream",
BSDM Man
|4.13.06 @ 3:35AM|#
As usual, Jennifer and thoreau are stinking up the place with their disgusting lack of logic. Not too mention, thoreau's Papistry prevents him from understanding higher concepts or from accepting that god never existed, while Jennifer is just as stupid as a doorknob.
|4.13.06 @ 4:56AM|#
I thought knobbers were something one did to doorks.
Comment by: smartassed sob at April 13, 2006 03:41 AM
What an imbecilic comment, I will box your ears for your
impertinance!
|4.13.06 @ 4:58AM|#
I thought knobbers were something one did to doorks.
Comment by: smartassed sob at April 13, 2006 03:41 AM
What an imbecilic comment, I will box your ears for your
impertinance!
|4.13.06 @ 9:29AM|#
Insinuation that I have far in-depth professional knowledge of the topic at hand, while in reality I know nothing.
|4.13.06 @ 10:47AM|#
"We Christards are at least Holy enough to restart the
Inquisition."
Impassioned and overly-scholarly defense of the motivations behind
the Albigensian crusade of 1209.
|4.13.06 @ 1:51PM|#
Irritated dismissal of all libertarians opposing some vast expansion of government as hopelessly purist.
|4.13.06 @ 2:00PM|#
saddened statement bereft of capital letters analyzing the topic at hand. whether the question is an expansion or (tiny) contraction of government, it is clear that whatever happens, it is a sign of the relentless death spiral of government into utter tyranny, something that mirrors the overall decline of western civilization for the past seven hundred years. head-shaking explanation that freedom is just a selfish desire for heedless autonomy and that slavery isn't really all that bad in a society better suited to achieving the ineffable state of universal purpose. many, many words rarely broken up by paragraphs, monolithic piles of verbiage allowing the eye no purchase on sentence-structure.
|4.13.06 @ 2:08PM|#
Horrified question to the effect of, "OMG, do you people really oppose big government? Are you crazy?"
|4.13.06 @ 3:25PM|#
'
"We Christards are at least Holy enough to restart the
Inquisition."
Impassioned and overly-scholarly defense of the motivations behind
the Albigensian crusade of 1209. '
Acid rebuttal from self-described neo-Cathar.
|4.14.06 @ 9:37AM|#
Comment that I do want to respond to a point even though this has fallen off the main page.
|4.14.06 @ 9:41AM|#
|4.15.06 @ 12:58PM|#
This is the blog that never ends.
It goes on and on my friend
Some people starting posting not knowing what it was
Now they are still posting because..
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