Had a comment waiting in moderation from “Bud” in response to my trackback to Greyhawk’s post of a couple of days ago – Iraqi mayor of Tall ‘Afar thanking the 3rd ACR for their efforts to drive the murderers out of town.
It was a deeply stupid comment, lacking any sense of scale or proportion, making no rebuttable argument and highlighting only the writer’s petulant, pugnacious pessimism and obdurate, obtuse oafishness. It was a grown up version of the third grader’s, “Oh, yeah?”
So I thought about it for a moment, and then, almost sadly, deleted it.
But then I felt bad, didn’t I? Who was I to stifle Bud’s dissent? And anyways, shouldn’t such a crystaline example of wooly-headed idiocy also have its moment in the sunlight? If for nothing else, than for the entertainment value that’s in it for the rest of us?
It should.
So, knowing the type, I went back to Greyhawk’s trackback list and followed it down to Matt’s spot, where, true to form, “Bud” had cut and pasted the exact same piece of asininity. Like the village idiot admiring the booger he’d pulled from his nose. Like maybe he was proud of it.
There. See that? I did that.
Shall I share it with you, gentle reader? Shall we all not benefit from the benevolent bliss of Bud’s brainlessness?
We shall:
iraqi mayor thanks cheney -chertoff troops
for the 70% unemployment, destroyed petroleum industry,
lack of electricity, water, and food,
violence everywhere
Imagine what it would take to read a post like the one Greyhawk put up and have this be your only response. Imagine writing this and being so damn proud of it that you went and spread it around all over the net.
Imagine.
Can you do it? Well then – that’s what separates you from Bud.
He left the same comment on my site for the same post. He was apparently visiting many (if not all) of those linked to Mudville Gazette. What a waste of electrons.
And oxygen.
After all this, it is still quite odd to imagine, the distance between us and them. Indeed, that these times have come down to an us v. them. Yet indeed, it seems that it has indeed come down to that.
“Ignorance must pay a price… it must look itself in the face.”
Its all about context. Posted here it will get scorn. Posted over at Kos it will get half a dozen “OK!’s”………
Ce’st le Guerre………
Bud’s comment proves the adage ‘it’s better to say nothing and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt’. Maybe Bud took lessons in logic from those busy torching embassies because of some cartoons.
Saw a new word today defined on a list of “new words” crafted by Mensans (can you believe it? List inbound to Lex):
IGNORANUS- one who is both ignorant and, well..
You know what.
BTW, this “new” word won the contest!
B2
Sorry. Ignoranus isn’t new–it appears in my canonical list of Sniglets, lovingly collected over the course of six months’ of air thievery and distributed to several of Argghhh’s loverly Denizennes.
Hey, at my age, I’ve gotta score points *some*how…
Heh…I have to put up with this kind of stupidity everyday. My youngest brother is a moonbat, as they say.
He just watched f9/11 and now he thinks that all hs conspiracy theories have been proven.
Oh, and he calls me a “corporate Republican” with just that tone of voice he thinks implies mass murdering, thieving cannibal. Fortunately for him, I find most of his comments amusing though I have the urge to kill him at least twice a week.
Hey, kat…
What’s the pay like as a Corporate Repub? If it’s better than my check, I’ll sign up..
LOL
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