It appears Kate touched a nerve again. I can hear the laughter all the way from Saskatchewan.
Posted at 2008-01-16 11:46:28 [PermaLink]Hey Warren, Spit-flecked and jam-packed with spelling and grammatical errors. is not a sentence so why the capital letter on spit and the full stop punctuation mark after errors? Perhaps you should be checking out the motes and beams in your own syntactic incompetence before poking fun at the knuckle dragging neanderthals on the right
A good Catholic boy like you will know what I'm talking about.
Just for your information don't go gotcha because I gasp, gasp ended a sentence with a preposition. That's standard criticism from the know-nothing lefties who are contributing to the present day pollution of English with their whom boom and excessive idiotic use of more and most importantly.
As a recovering academic I'll make your eyes glaze over with my standard lecture on the functions of prepositions in English as well as why more and most importantly are wrong, wrong, wrong if you so much as dare.
Kinsella, like his buddy Cherniak, have gone from being a sometimes worthwhile read to see the view from "the other side", to teeth-gnashing, sniveling little ankle-biters..
I think Kinsella realizes his time is over, Cherniak isn't smart enough to have caught on yet..
Skal!
He just can't resist name dropping can he. Me and Moe Berg are pals!! 99% of the Cdn population amd 80% of his readers just went, "Moe who"?
Posted at 2008-01-16 13:36:42 [PermaLink]I am of the personal opinion that Warren Kinsella is a victim of bipolar disorder. He claims to be a compassionate Liberal, but he gets so incoherently angry and spiteful. He professes to take the high road, but calls people who disagree with him "friggin losers". I don't believe he is dumb enough not to understand these blatant contradictions, what I do believe is that he has other things going on that affect his personality. Do you people have any idea what is going on? Bad marriage? Drugs? A life wasted? Just what is going on with that guy?
Posted at 2008-01-16 14:16:44 [PermaLink]Warren is just peeved because the latest Top 25 Blog
Roll for Jan 08 has Small Dead Animals coming in at No. 3
while his site is at the bottom at 23. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
The actual list can be found at Dime A Dozen
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where can i get a poster of jessica simpsons republican ass ?
Posted at 2008-01-16 14:31:11 [PermaLink]"99% of the Cdn population amd 80% of his readers just went, "Moe who"?"
I had basically the same reaction as John B: hasn't Moe Berg been dead for decades? And even if he hasn't, would someone who rubbed elbows with Babe Ruth and Werner Heisenberg be hanging out with Kinsella?
"99% of the Cdn population amd 80% of his readers just went, "Moe who"?"
I had basically the same reaction as John B: hasn't Moe Berg been dead for decades? And even if he hasn't, would someone who rubbed elbows with Babe Ruth and Werner Heisenberg be hanging out with Kinsella?
"Pardon my French, folks, but they're frigging losers. Until the Internet came along, no one knew they existed, much less cared"-Warren the weasel.
It must just kill him, after his hero Gore invented the internet, we rednecks taking it over and using it as a tool to kick the liberals ass to the curb.
I did read his dumber than dogshit blog, and all I got to say...is it a good thing the guy can spell, coz he ain't got nothing else going for him.
Posted at 2008-01-16 15:52:26 [PermaLink]MILLIE ROCKS! Hey Millie, thanks!
BTW, Damian, nothing Kinsella can say would offend me or ever hurt my American feelings. Ditto Baglow, Rubert and a host of other lefties and statists.
Honey has a point: This blog thingy has done more in the last five years to advance the voices of individualism than the old statist elites had ever feared. Kinsella & Co's ideas and rhetoric are now open to swift (and often embarrassing) review.
Holy cow. Warren sounds like a teenager trying to impersonate Hunter S. Thompson:
"We were somewhere around Brandon on the edge of the prairies when the Geritol began to take hold. I remember whimpering, "I'm a little tired of being spanked by my intellectual betters; maybe you should read these awful comments..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge chihuahuas, all swooping and yapping and diving around the Rayman's land barge, which was going about 85 km an hour, max, with the top safely closed to Calgary. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Tit-Fuck-Me-Jesus! Mommy!"
"Then it was quiet again. The Rayman had taken his shirt off and was pouring sunscreen on his white, satiny chest, to safely prevent the tanning process. 'Warren, puh-lease. I'm trying to listen to the CBC,' he whined, watching the road carefully with his eyes shaded by with 100% UV-protected Zellers sunglasses. "Never mind," I said. "It's your turn to drive." I carefully slowed down and aimed the land barge toward the highway rest stop. No point mentioning the chihuahuas, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough."
With apologies:
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"Playing Ball With the O.S.S."
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Well worth the read.
Mark
Ottawa
Heh. We really got to him, didn't we? Let's poke him some more!
Posted at 2008-01-16 17:21:29 [PermaLink]A while back, Kate did a poll of her readers, asking them to state their professions. It was interesting. Many, if not most, were engineers, scientists, small businessmen or other degree-holding professionals. This is not to suggest that degree holders are any more insightful than people in the trades, but it does underline Kinsella's somewhat skewed view of the world.
Posted at 2008-01-16 17:26:35 [PermaLink]Don't knock Moe Berg - TPOH is one of the greatest Canadian bands ever.
Posted at 2008-01-16 17:28:02 [PermaLink]Is anybody collecting the punk's posts in the hope of causing him grievous harm?
I wonder how most of the readers of the Post might respond? Cancelled subscriptions?
As well, if he ever gets another Liberal war room job, I wonder what damage these missives might cause if they were made public?
Filth like this fellow needs to be heaped on the dung hill.
"Until the Internet came along, no one knew they existed, much less cared."
Huh. I could say the same thing for Kinsella. If it weren't for Damian, I'd be oblivious to his existence to this good day.
The last time I read Kinsell's blog...was just that: the last time. ZGood to know I have not been missing anything worth reading. Plainly he is dismissing the grapes as sour at Small Dead Animals--"she has tons more readers than me, but those readers are not worth having as readers."
Posted at 2008-01-17 07:16:22 [PermaLink]Moe Berg is decent. I bought a CD of his in the late 80s.
However, he isn't punk; if your *punk* music has been released on CD, and on CD only, you're about ten years too late.
Warren Kinsella is pure nostalgia.
Remember his book on the Far Right which was released in the 90s?
What was strange, and perhaps even a little dangerous, was his 'comfortable' opinion that Far Right inevitably meant only one particular group of people; pimply, white neo-nazis.
At the time, though, plenty of evidence ( not to mention mayhem and destruction) had already been committed in the name of an ideology dissimulating its racism, anti-semitism and hatred behind a tawdry facade of faux abrahamic sentiment.
Warren was oblivious to all that.
There had already been repeated terrorist attacks in France, for instance, and many conservative french publications ( Le Figaro) had already run numerous and lengthy exposés on the *new* face of facism.
Warren's 'vigilence' actually served to lull people to sleep, and to blind them to a new threat that could not be defined or pigeon-holed according to any of the standard categories of Far Right.
His 'courageous' and avant-garde work, then, was actually quite reactionary and counter-productive, omitting, as it did, to make any mention or reference to the new forms of hate and fascism.
His absurd assertion that Moe Berg's music was punk dovetails with that and reinforces my overall opinion that he suffers from an irremedial, irretrievable and dangerous zietgeist lag.
Warren's 'today' is our yesterday.