This month, Pajamas Media is celebrating its ninth year of blogging.
Ed Driscoll:
To officially kick off another year of blogging, here’s our latest Silicon Graffiti video, the first of a two part series, in which we look at several attempts by the left to, as Tom Wolfe would say, “Start from Zero,” and hit the CTL-ALT-DLT keys on western civilization.
Far-ranging, fast-paced, and darkly funny – do watch.
Pajamas Media is celebrating it’s ninth year of blogging.
Spell check doesn’t catch everything…
Funny to see a woman who harps on about the quality of education make such a basic mistake.
lloyd ‘fister’…..’fister’….’fister’?….
hokay..i’ll bite….what’s the ‘fister’ moniker all about…it SOUNDS dirty kinda…dirty like weird sex prolly auto-erotic kinda…filthy though….i feel duct tape is part of the deal…and i can smell little furry animals for some reason…and yet ‘lloyd’ is as square as they come!
talk to me lloyd….you can count on me to be as non-judgemental as a soul could possibly be…
Thanks, KevinB. I’ve amended the post to remove the offending apostrophe.
I’d like to offer my sincere and heartfelt apologies to SDA readers, commenters, and guest bloggers, and to my friends, my parents, my former teachers, the doctor who delivered me, and, most of all, to Kate. I’ve taken a long, hard look at myself, and I don’t like what I see.
I consider this a turning point in my life.
Actually, john, it’s not his name, it’s a pastime; he lives with a fellow named Lloyd.
Hope everyone’s enjoying the PJM video!
Are EBD and Ed Driscoll one and the same?
oh EBD!….i just KNEW there was some slimey(slimy?) underbelly thingy at work…oh well,(sigh)one does what one can to move things forward…one TRIES ever so hard…ever so diligently even when one encounters the ‘picky’ type of converationalist…(we ARE having a conversation are we not?)
where was I?…oh yes….’fisters’….hmmmph…and harrumph into the bargain…do you think lloyd or his roommate(bruce?) will indulge us with an explanation for breaking a butterfly on a wheel?
btw EBD i will carry the wit and wisdom of ‘white man’s wind’ unto and into my wrapping sheet.
i think a modern application of the code duello is in order…
let’s meet mr ‘fister’….name your seconds and let’s agree on the ground…myself i’d prefer rubber chickens at 20 paces but i reckon you want hot double doubles from tim hortons at 10 paces..as for the ground howsabout the rose garden in Stanley Park?
i’m cool with that you pathetic nitpicking analist…
even tho i live in lotus land Herr fister…yeah that’s right fister..LOTUS LAND but i ain’t no lotus eater pal…
EBD is Ed Driscoll!
Great vid – captures the weird, cargo cult relationship the lib personality has with reality, and humanity.
If you’re going to take on a job, do it.
I just started a new job. We handle millions of dollars of precious metal every single day. Think “I’m sorry” is going to cut it if I misplace a single tube of gold Maple Leafs? My customers expect 100% accuracy, and if they don’t get it, my rear end is a piece of front lawn.
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Wimp.
Nitskey indeed…the punk hyenas like ‘fister’ that circle our camp fire wouldn’t know Nitskey from any chinese greengrocer on Spadina..
I can take the heat, KevinB – not that you’re capable of generating any.
Btw, any cowardly blowhard can sit in front of his computer and type out the word “wimp” – but then, you already know that, don’t you?
Too bad this medium doesn’t provide for a little one-on-one face time.
EBD
The ironic thing about the Driscoll piece is that most of present day adherents of the “Start from Zero” doctrine are the least equipped to cope with the reality it entails.
They are, essentially, demanding their own demise. Maybe we should let them take point.
BTW…Is larben onto something?
KevinB
Anal retentive much?
Begley
Fister isn’t even sharp enough to realize who authored this post let alone grok the Nitsky reference.
I must admit I didn’t get it either but a search of these intertubes set me straight. Can you imagine how KevinB must feel?
“The ironic thing about the Driscoll piece is that most of present day adherents of the “Start from Zero” doctrine are the least equipped to cope with the reality it entails.
They are, essentially, demanding their own demise. Maybe we should let them take point.”
This is indeed an hilarious irony. You see these would-be anarchists, sporting a pre-packaged “non-conformist” look that they likely bought from a chain store somewhere, claiming to want to tear it all down (or some other insufferable cliché). The real communists would consider them the very worst sort of idle bourgeoisie, the pampered offspring of the wealthy, stuck in a permanent adolescence. Such persons tend not to have a very long shelf life once the real revolutionaries show up.
But even in the absence of overt political violence, the idea of them somehow fending for themselves in a world stripped of modern convenience is itself hilarious. As Ted Nugent said, “There’s a gut pile behind every hamburger.”
I, for one, have had enough of KevinB and his high horse.
MissAnthropy
I have a theory that states the further removed people are from the actual production and processing of food the more likely they are to be a leftard.
Just a theory…
You just can’t accept you made a mistake, can you?
If you want face time, let me know the next time you’ll be in Toronto; I won’t waste any time traveling to see you.
Here it is in single, specifically typed letters:
W I M P
Holy apostrophe Batman!! Biff!!! Bam!!! POW!!!
“You just can’t accept you made a mistake, can you?”
I acknowledged immediately, in my very first comment, that I made a mistake regarding the accidental apostrophe; I thanked you for pointing it out, and I fixed the typo.
The only issue at this point is, what could possibly cause a grown man to become so incredibly pissy, for hours on end, about a typo?
You should – seriously – seek professional help.
A flame war over an apostrophe – and here I thought 4Chan was the bad part of town.
Back on topic, I agree that it does seem for the most part these “anarchists” are skinny, stoned, urbanites under 25 years old.
Sad, just sad.
Remember Pol Pot and the Kmher Rouge started their Year Zero in Cambodia and what happened there.
The killing fields… which is entirely consistent.
This reminds me of a fellow on the early days of AOL named Bluebird.
When it came to English he was a nut. His triads where legendary.
Needless to say he was not loved, considering spell checkers where in the future.
JMO
@MissAnthropy:
Superb post!
According to the union run education system (in Ontario) Spwelling and all things grammatical or immaterial in today’s society it is the IDEAS that are of import and if those Ideas are put across then the rest is merely window dressing.
Just saying.
I think the term “anti-civilization left” should become more widely used. All the jargon and lies sound promising until you realize what they are actually fighting for.
The way it looks, from the campaign to this day, the current president of the US, has started the march to zero the day he took the office.
He is still on track, though current congress is less agreeable to that end.
Has anyone checked out the Israeli video banned by U-Tube & Facebook @ above site? If not, do so. Kate please post.
MissAnthropy nails it !!
EBD, I think you’re great! I appreciate your posts and commentary. Thanks. I believe that the mistake was a typo, as I’ve not noticed any problem with it’s/its in your texts before this—because I notice this confusion many times daily in different blog comments, and it drives me nuts: it’s not that difficult a rule to learn!
I’m also sympathetic to KevinB’s quibble about “it’s/its”—but not his ad hominems, at all.
English Lesson: IT’S and ITS
1. The word “IT’S” is a CONTRACTION. It stands for “IT IS”, as in: “IT’S raining.”
2. The POSSESSIVE: “The dog wagged ITS tail.” Strangely, the apostrophe is dropped here.
SO many people don’t seem to know this, which is no surprise, as our “Starting—and Ending—at Zero” public school boards decided, in the 70s, to stop teaching grammar: I was told it was OK for me to keep teaching it because I taught special education! (I’d have kept teaching grammar anyway: it’s sad, but true, that, for the past many politically correct, dumbed down decades, the only good teacher is the subversive teacher.)
If it were (subjunctive verb form—another area of “unknowing”) up to me, I’d keep the apostrophe for both the contraction AND the possessive. But it’s not up to me!
REACAP:
CONTRACTION: IT’S raining.
POSSESSIVE: The dog wagged ITS tail.
EBD and KevinB, all the best to you both.
Thanks for your kind words, lookout, and I do hope that your primer is useful to those who are unaware of the proper form of usage for apostrophes, and contractions, etc. In this case, though – just to be extra-double clear – the rascally rogue apostrophe that caused so much pontificating rage was a *typo* — or more of a muscle-memory hand-twitch, really, since I type really, really fast — and not evidence of ignorance; I’ve actually been well aware of the appropriate usages of its/it’s and your/you’re since I was about four or five years old.
I should have caught my error, of course, and the fact that I didn’t is entirely my fault, and my responsibility. My problem with a particular commenter in this thread is this: if I see a minor typo committed (perpetrated?) by someone who I realize understands the correct form by virtue of the fact that he has demonstrated repeatedly in his writing that he knows the correct form, I would personally be incapable – and that’s not too strong a word, it’s entirely accurate – of becoming genuinely furious and hate-filled about a single passing instance of such an un-caught typo, and I am unable to even begin to comprehend the psycho-sexual origins of the urge to call someone a “wimp”, and, especially, to remain apoplectic and literally enraged for hours over the course of an evening over someone else’s *typo*, particularly if the, um, perp had already thanked me for pointing it out, and had corrected it immediately.
I just don’t get it, and I’m glad I don’t. I’m not going to worry about it, though, because it’s a really beautiful day here, so nice and sunny!
Late Saturday evening – drunk? Big ego? Bone to pick? Self centered? Screwed up at work? Kicked the cat already? All of the above?
Just saying.
And then there’s “who’s” and “whose”.
rita, who’s to know whose mistakes are ignorance or just a mistake?
I believe EBD, whose writing is usually free of mistakes! (And it’s nice and sunny here too.)