Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Well qualified to write op-eds for the LA Times

Our little Jonah says the darndest things (and by "little," I mean "doughy"). He delights us by saying something stupid and with the greatest of confidence about a subject he knows really very little about. Then, because he wears a sign on his back that prominently asks (or is that states?), "Kick Me," his stupid utterings are rapidly and widely shown, throughout the blogospheria, to be massively wrong and ill-informed.

But what makes Lucianne's spawn so special -- so delightful, in fact -- is that he compounds his inanity by pursuing the argument with those who have so clearly unmasked his moronity. DeLong's post has the double-goodness of not only showing the Doughboy to be spectacularly and petulantly wrong, but you may just learn something interesing to boot.

It's also a great reminder of the scene in Annie Hall when Alvy Singer's standing in line for a movie and gets annoyed by a guy behind him spouting off some nonsense about Marshall McLuhan. So Woody Allen has Marshall McLuhan appear to tell the guy, "No, that is not at all what I meant."

UPDATED to add a forgotten link.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

Weblog Commenting by HaloScan.com Site Meter