"I am offended that you think we're dumb enough to believe that you're dumb enough to believe that"

A fun dig from commenter Noscitur a sociis, entirely apart from the substance or political valence of the comment to which he was responding. I generally prefer that comments be more substantive than that, but even I have to acknowledge high-quality snark.

Comments

[Shamie Ervin iv]

Keep going. You're on a roll. Where is the thread where Noscitur (aka birds of a feather flocking together) wrote that witticism?

[Absaroka]

Everything Old Is New Again, Ukraine War Edition.

[DaivdBehar]

The people here are amusing, and so smart. But they are not serious.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Were that true, this would be a very different blog with a nearly entirely different target audience.

[rspct]

Wow. I thought you were a dedicated troll. But you're actually aggrieved that Prof. Volokh didn't think "cop succor" was high-quality snark.

You make so much more sense now.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

I have concluded that this white, male, right-wing blog intentionally attracts and lathers a crew of disaffected, downscale wingnuts.

Others — antisocial misfits, especially — are welcome to see it differently.

The noteworthy element of the “c_p succ_r” incidents was not Prof. Volokh’s assessment of my wordplay — the important point was his partisan, hypocritical imposition of viewpoint-driven censorship.

[DaivdBehar]

Artie. Go ahead, type, fuck. No censorship has happened since the arrival at Reason.

[Ruqt]

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

― Mark Twain

[Bored Lawyer]

And yet you keep coming back. Like Groucho Marx, it seems you do not want to be a member of any club that would let you in.

[Currentsitguy]

"I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me."

[Longtobefree]

"Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you, if you don't bet, you can't win"

[Eugene Volokh]

"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded; everybody rolls with their fingers crossed."

[MatthewSlyfield]

"The only way to win it not to play."

[not me]

The great genius of that scene is that everything Vizzini says is actually correct.

[hobie]

I'm shocked Volokh didn't break this post into two parts

[Cal Cetín]

At least he didn't have the Gaul to break it into three parts.

[mydisplayname]

🙂

[Eugene Volokh]

Nice.

[Bored Lawyer]

Bon mots, like bon bons, are temporarily exciting, but not very nourishing.

[Eugene Volokh]

All life is merely temporary.

[Jmaie]

Life is just nature's way to keep meat fresh...

[Bored Lawyer]

This life is. Some us hope to go to eternal life in the next world. If we make the most of this one.

[juris imprudent]

I rather thought that if you believe in eternal life, it isn't a question of hoping to go to it - it is a question of where you'll be spending it.