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Pot, meet kettle
February 12, 2008 |
John Derbyshire writing about Ben Stein, who evidently has hopped about the creationist express:
This is very sad. I’ve always liked Ben’s stuff — used to read his diary in The American Spectator way back in the 1970s. Smart, funny, worldly guy, with just that endearing streak of eccentricity. I’m sorry to see he’s lost his marbles.
Yeah John. It’s really a shame when a writer you once read and admired starts going a little whacko. You know, he starts expressing ideas you vehemently disagree with, and maybe becomes so cantankerous and disagreebale you wonder why you even ever read the guy in the first place. It’s just so sad when that happens.
Now you probably know how most readers of National Review feel about you.
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Touche.
John Derbyshire, as a supporter of Ron Paul (R.OZ), has about as much right to decry Ben Stein supporting academic freedom for proponents of intelligent design as a bag lady cursing in the street has the right to complain about a gentleman wearing a white suit after Labor Day.
It seems that Stein’s main criticism in the piece had to do with what is (was) known as “Social Dawrinism” and modernity’s continued attempts to theorize and apply meaning to a universe that they continue to insist is wholly without any meaning that is not self-applied.
Derbyshire is supposed to be an intellectual, right? Perhaps he then should try actually reading the objects of his criticism before he writes the criticism.
WAC