PZ Myers writes
Time's former "Blog of the Year," the execrable PowerLine blog with which I share a state, has done it again: said something so stupid and so palpably false that I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about ragging on Oklahoma in my previous post--I should feel ashamed by association at being a Minnesotan. Check out Deltoid: down is up in the world of the Hindrocket.
I feel PZ's pain. I share a state with Tim Blair, who has now made exactly the same blunder as Hindrocket: "Gore's chilling effect reduces movie audiences". We'll see a correction from Blair sometime around never. Not surprisingly, he also touts the Republican press release attacking Gore.
Mind you, Blair has been fighting back against my criticism in the only way he knows. By correcting my grammar:
"Tim Blair has less knowledge of science than Kyle Smith."
To make your point clear, this should read: "Tim Blair has less knowledge of science than does Kyle Smith." Or perhaps: "Tim Blair is less knowledgeable of science than is Kyle Smith." Or even: "Tim Blair's knowledge of science is equal to Tim Lambert's knowledge of logical and non-ambivalent sentence construction."
Too bad he made a usage error in his correction: ambivalent/ambiguous:
If something is ambiguous it has more than one possible meaning, and so is obscure or difficult to understand: When I asked Stuart if he condemned my action he gave me an ambiguous answer; The message was perfectly clear and not in the least ambiguous. If a person is ambivalent they have an uncertain attitude or feeling towards someone or something: The French are ambivalent about royalty: they abolished their own monarchy but are very interested in the British royal family. A common error is to use ambivalent instead of ambiguous.
After he was hoist by his own petard, Blair deployed his ultimate weapon -- he called me "fatso". Well, that's me put in my place. I should have known better than to take on a professional journalist.
Hi Tim,
I attempted to correct Blair's ridiculous assertions, yet I'm afraid was totally out smarted by an astute wingnut, whose comment I've reproduced below.-
Fuck off Gusty
Posted by jlc on 2006 06 28 at 11:26 AM ⢠permalink
I loved this particular offering from one of Tim's Toadies
"Why hasn't anyone put two and two together about Alkatiri being a Muslim leader and forming a secretly armed hit squad to silence his opponents. Is this just so 'ho hum' that this is what is always expected from Muslim leaders?"
Although it really has abotu as much to do with global warming as most of the posts there.
I was particularly struck by the claims about how in order to stop global warming we'd have to go back to living in mud hits and driving ox-carts.
I'm sure that that fearless and wholely nonpartisan myrmidon of truth Tim Curtin will rush to explain that according to his own extremely pessimistic predictions, that's a load of nonsense.
Hmmm. Is there any proof that that 'fatso' comment was made by Tim Blair? It seems like it could be some guy ridiculing Blair by posting an obscene post in his name.
yet I'm afraid was totally out smarted by an astute wingnut
Now there's a phrase you don't see very often.
Best,
D
Interesting you guys call it a "clue stick." Over here in America, we call it a "clue bat." Culture is funny.
Or my favorite variant, a "clue by four."
Funny - I've lived in America all my life, and I've been hearing 'clue stick' since the late 1980s. I think your post is the first time I've encountered 'clue bat'.
I've heard the culture of climate scientists uses 'clue hockey stick' ...
I added a comment to Blair's site, noting that Gore's grosses have actually increased, not decreased. We'll see if anyone notices.
Well sure you lefties all think it's increaing because you've been brainwashed by the mathematical consensus.
what's needed is an audit of the cinema receipts by some self-appointed busybodies.
Besides don't you people know there's no such as an "average" per screen revenue?