Comments on: Balkanization

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:59:01 +0000

Only 84 comments on a post about the Balkans? After four days? Damn, people just aren’t trying anymore. I remember when a reference to the Balkans on a blog could get you a couple hundred comments with links to the complete works of Diana Johnstone, all in 24 hours or less. Those were good times! Indeed, that is central to my point.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:14:07 +0000

and Art Buchwald.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:13:46 +0000

The Editors, that is…

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:13:23 +0000

Lot’s of good fish in the sea in the sea in the sea…
Yeah and just yesterday I was watching *Topsy Turvy.*
Concilience and Serendipity strikes again.
The Ditors and Sifu Tweety Fish — the Bennett Cerf and Art Buchwals of Liberal Fascism.
Or maybe that’s Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl.

By: Gilmore

Gilmore — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:12:38 +0000

Who’s this ‘Editors’ dickhead and why is he allowed to practically monopolize the comments section of this otherwise fine blog? Isn’t anyone in charge around here?

By: Uli Kunkel

Uli Kunkel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:23:29 +0000

“I have to just to call him the lying sack of shit that he is.”

That’ll larn him.

Sack. Of. Shit. (Makes me feel all butch typing that, I can see the attraction.)

By: The Editors

The Editors — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:15:33 +0000

Spazzatura – That’s quite a tale. I’m quite sure I have no idea who the fuck you are or where you live, I don’t spend my time looking at lists of IPs, and I couldn’t care less. You’re one of the Jeff Goldsteins who comes around here and leaves 50,000 word posts of unreadable autodidact fanboy gibberish now that Jeff Goldstein has moved on to other things. Afer you, there will be others, and I’ll hold them just as near to my heart. They probably won’t have quite the uniquely awful prose style that you so effortlessly express, but I’m sure they will have something to recommend them. Lotta fish in the sea and all that.

So: go fuck yourself. Or don’t. Or go lurk around here for another few years, seething, thinking up new names of the form “pop culture figure with first-name pun” and try to screw up the courage to defend your idols from very mean dudes on the internets. Dream of further brave and bold pants-sniffing investigations into who linked to Matt Welsh in 2003 and how that proves you’re not a loser. A matter of periodic sport, but mostly indifference to myself, and probably anybody who reads this. Call yourself what you please – you’re a bad writer with nothing to say. Nobody gives a shit what you think.

By: HTML Mencken

HTML Mencken — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:57:09 +0000

I was emailed about this thread before the sockpuppet accusation, and I wasn’t going to say anything before (contenting to let the formerly pro-war Editors stew in his own failure), but now I have to just to call him the lying sack of shit that he is.

You, Andy, know roughly where I live and what my IP should be; ergo, you know I can’t be Balls McCartney or indeed anyone else on this thread. You just said it out of desperation, and because Balls reminded you that despite your best robots.txt efforts, a lot of people remember what a stupid fucking idiot, war-cheerleading, Steyn- and Jonah- and Goldstein-complimenting jackass you were. Sorry, I know you want to forget all about that yourself but c’mon — you’re not Madonna, you don’t have to believe in your own makeovers. And at least you’re funnier than Yglesias and Ezra, though they have a bit more grace and confidence…

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:47:03 +0000

If I were going to be snarky, I might say that
1)Your statement that maybe all those Yugoslavs hate Muslims — that’s some pretty big generaliztion going on. Sure yeah, everybody over there just hates them some Muslims. Even if Elena Atanasova IS part Albanian. And even if she and everybody in her acquaintance was brought up, per Tito to show respect for all ethnicities.
2) Case Histories — anecdotes or data?
3) War and Revenge — out of 300 or so pages, how many are anecdotes and nothing but anecdotes? How many pages of Tables do we have here? I look at Amazon.com and I see a lot of random pages from the book have anecdotes. Nothing BUT anecdotes. Of course 50 some interlocuters IS, in binary, an order of magnitude more than 25.
I’ll grant you that.

4) Maybe it’s just that the Albanians are like Texans — what unites them is far more significant than what differentiates them, they are all Texans and are all hated by everyone else everywhere else. Because of their Texan-ness.
But feel free to start loving Tony Romo now.

By: The Editors

The Editors — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:25:08 +0000

*rimshot*