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Giving Morons the Beating They Deserve
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Balloon Juice — This: As all actual, practicing literary critics know, few sentences in critical works scream tendentiousness louder than: What should be transparent to any literary critic is that . . . Literary matters are only “transparent” when they’re not properly literary. If something is transparent, you don’t need a literary critic to ponder the depths it doesn’t have—any old idiot will suffice. And that’s exactly why Jack Cashillm author of the above and an idiot of ...

I'm a couple days late
Rising Hegemon — But not too surprisingly the title of biggest moron on the internet has been locked up for all eternity. What a pity for Jonah Goldberg, Cliff May, Michael Goldfarb, Andy McCartney and the favorite at the turn, K-Lo. I give you Jack Cahill (well, actually ...

I'm going to spend the rest of my life apologizing to Jack Cashill, aren't I?
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... The sloppiness of Andersen's research demonstrably proves that he's not the sort of celebrity biographer an intelligent person trusts with anonymous sources. Andersen's inability to recognize the worthlessness of Cashill's impressionistic "textual sleuthing" demonstrably proves that he's not the sort of celebrity biographer an intelligent person trusts to do responsible literary analysis. Need I remind you of the "quality" of Cashill's work? ...

Late Night: Maybe One Sign Your Intellectual Movement Is in Trouble Is You Have to Keep Asking If It Exists, Or, Festoon Me, Won’t You?
Firedoglake — ... say, Jonah Goldberg agrees. To be fair, he couldn't really be expected to, though he does anyhow come up with something that could very credibly be chiseled into the tombstone: "the right-wing blogosphere is festooned with sparkling intelligence." Festooned! And indeed, it's totally so fucking festooned. See, for instance, just today, TS speculating as to the possible advent of The Wingularity, which would be this, a resuscitation of the William Ayers wrote Obama's book stuff. Speaking as a scientist, one of the key ...