One of Daniel's favorite bloggers, a David Schuler, he of The Glittering Eye (from Coleridge, I believe, "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye / Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?...") has a semi-regular series of posts about so-called issues he doesn't care about. This is a rational and laudable response to the daily crush of inanities that keep us away from more lofty and worthy pursuits. Namely, the quest for knowledge, faith and enlightenment.
As a proselyte of the Church of Rome, I find this day's fou-fou about what some comedian did or didn't do to be nothing short of abomination, not for his supposed grand strings of bon mots but for the fact that so many people feel it worth their time to have an opinion. Get thee to a cathedral, America, and repent.
And after-wards, rent The Sign of the Cross and ponder. After dinner, It happened One Night should aid digestion.
-AQP
You're absolutely right. Move along, people. There's nothing to see here. Just keep shopping, keep driving, keep sporting those yellow ribbon magnets and everything will be just fine. The last thing we need it anybody mucking things up by thinking.
Posted by: Dave | April 30, 2006 at 04:17 PM
AQP, I'm impressed. I've never been asked about it and you're the first one to pick up on it.
Posted by: Dave Schuler | April 30, 2006 at 10:19 PM
Dave (not you Schuler),
You lugubrious little twit. One must come to a moment when all the petulence of youth gives way to wisdom. Your moment will come, perhaps. In the mean time, you may continue to suck at the teat of the dying bitch of culture. There is, in fact, nothing to "see" here, except for the spectacle of empty heads filling up with bilge.
Posted by: AQP | May 01, 2006 at 04:39 PM
Well, Mr. AQP, it has drawn more comments than your pathetic little speil by several orders of magnitude, and I seriously doubt that anyone has heeded your tired advice to repent. As a proselyte of the Church of Rome, as well as a social critic, I guess you're pretty much a dud. Maybe you'd best get back to your quest for knowledge, faith and enlightenment .... and good luck, you clearly need at least two of the three.
Posted by: Cousin X | May 02, 2006 at 11:47 AM
Excuse me, what was that? Another gnat wishing to partake of a drop? While you have so mortally wounded me, I can hardly carry on. My eyes have been opened as to the wretchedness of my existence. Why? Because another dimwit says it's so!
Posted by: AQP | May 02, 2006 at 11:55 AM
Foresooth, the stalwart word-warrior strikes again, lunging with his irony-envenomed blade! Verily, say he that another is but a gnat (albiet a gnat who can type -- such a strange world!), then must it be so. And yet his professed wounds, mortal though they be, seem to have blearied his penetrating occular organs .... he has clearly admitted his own dimwithood, but has mistaken yours truly for another like unto him.
Posted by: Cousin X | May 02, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Sir, or Madame, or whatever. You are a knave and an idiot, evidenced by the subjects that attract your adolescent attention and your feeble attempt at insult.
Posted by: AQP | May 02, 2006 at 12:36 PM
but maybe, "snowjob" will fall in love with colbert, ala marcus and mercia (how disappointingly obvious a name), and the world will be healed!
Posted by: JPRA | May 03, 2006 at 05:50 PM