Head Full of Nothing

NTodd trembles to hear what I might say about Althouse's recent attempt to delve a sub-basement for the NYTimes opinion pages even below the dank, spidery cellars of stupid currently infested by the likes of Tommy Friedman and Davey Brooks.

But I'm not sure what I might add to what Mr. Greenwald had to say, or what Mr. Lemieux mentioned in passing. These are of course real lawyers -- and I? Merely a humble community college professor what is full of jealousy. And of course "insolent." (Althouse once called me "insolent," which is still pretty much the greatest thing ever. Whenever I feel blue, I remember that Ann Althouse once told me I was "insolent," and it makes a nothing day suddenly seem worthwhile.)

The fun thing about Althouse is that she will give utterance to pretty much any bubbly thought that wafts unbidden into her beautiful mind. If Gerty McDowell had a blog, tenure, and were less literate, you'd have Althouse. Or, oh, I dunno...  a Ron Burgundy joke would work almost as well. Or maybe all one need invoke is the sort of profundity that billows out from the mouths of bongs. To wit:

As to the zoo, I do think people roam about looking for animals to identify with. No one stares at the camels. There's always a crowd gazing into the eyes of the chimpanzee. It is far more interesting to watch the people as they watch the animals or to watch the animals and think of people.

Like, totally.

Venturing out here onto the speculative limb myself, I'd imagine that one of the reasons why doorknobs like Althouse and David Brooks are so otherwise unaccountably popular is that they have a gift for making stupid shit sound like genuine argument. You don't need to actually know anything to be an Althouse fan, as her commenters are usually so eager to prove. You just need to have a good line in bullshit. Oh, and you can't use the word "bullshit," because it's dirty. And you know someone is civil and smart because those people don't use cuss words. Or something.

Did you ever wonder if moths get jealous of butterflies? Also, I don't think so many people would drink milk if it was orange.

Comments

[pseudonymous in nc]

If Gerty McDowell had a blog, tenure, and were less literate, you'd have Althouse.

That's beautiful. Particularly given what ver yoof ov today mean when they call someone 'lame'.

[flory]

I like camels. They're humpty. But orange milk isn't.

[LJ]

I'd imagine that one of the reasons why doorknobs like Althouse and David Brooks are so otherwise unaccountably popular is that they have a gift for making stupid shit sound like genuine argument.

You're too generous, Theri.

The reason the NYT included that mindless inanity was because they're just as stupid as she is so they thought it made fucking sense.

They've also dumbed down their readers so much since the Clenis that AA sounds in-te-lek-shul.

It's days like these that make me wonder why the stupid gene replicates so well. Maybe it's a path of least resistance thing? Or maybe meme not gene, a la Dawkins, would be more appropriate here?

[charley]

Also, I don't think so many people would drink milk if it was orange.

ooh, you should try that on one of your 36 kids.

[NTodd]

My cousins and I once blew up some bullshit. Really, with firecrackers on my uncle's beef cattle farm. It was cool, 'specially when manure shrapnel hit my aunt in the face and she yelled, get this..."oh, shit!"

I'm totally not joking.

[geoduck2]

I wish somebody would call me insolent.

(I couldn't read her response; I just couldn't.)

[geoduck2]

couldn't read the op-ed either.

ps.
I hope the duck and her ducklings are having a good end of the summer!

[notanumber]

Haven't given much thought about moths and butterflies, but I think it is proven that rats are jealous of squirrels.

[Interrobang]

Comparing the vacuity that wafts out of Althouse's computer to the profundity that wafts out of bongs is unkind to bongs. I mean, really.

[LittlePig]

Hey, it's you Thers and you should know it,

in each glance and every little movement you show it.

:)