Jonanism
Jo·nan·ism -noun
1. The belief that everybody you hate is exactly the same.
2. The belief that evidence that nobody takes you seriously means you are very serious.
3. Any attempt to popularize these beliefs in book and associated website form.
[Origin: c. 2008, from 'Jonah Goldberg' and 'onanism'; see calling all toasters]
February 28, 2008 at 10:56 am
Jonanism – I bow before the ineffable, sublime genius of this neologism.
We are not worthy! We are not worthy!
February 28, 2008 at 10:58 am
I thought Jonanism was the highest form of wankery.
February 28, 2008 at 11:46 am
I thought Jonanism was the highest form of wankery.
Awesome.
February 28, 2008 at 12:00 pm
We will pry the column out of there the way Kahn yanked those baby monster things from the back of that slightly larger monster thing in Star Trek II and it will be up extry-special early in the morning.
(As you can see, writing without the excuse of defending Galileo or explaining Littleton or debating the irony of irony is like praying at the temple of Onan (look it up).
February 28, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Jonanism. Brilliant.
February 28, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Very apt.
Especially since reading Jonah will make you go blind.
Sure, it’s because you gouge your own eyes out to stop the pain, but the end result is the same.
February 28, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Jennifer: no it is a very *particular* form of wankery, as outlined by c.a.t. and by theEditors.
And I hereby remit to your care my commenting badge till such time as I can earn it agayne.
February 28, 2008 at 3:28 pm
My palms…they are growing hair!
February 28, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Jonanism is outstanding. I would have gone for Doughism in second place, but it sounds too much like a Chinese religious sect:
‘From the Pantload Sutra:
Then the ancient master Dough Tzu said, “this is central to my point.” ‘
February 28, 2008 at 5:57 pm
One can only pray this sad condition is not still another postmodern mutation!
February 28, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I taught calling all toasters everything he knows.
February 28, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Otto Man: Apparently Jonah only did it until he needed glasses.
Which may explain why his book is unreadable.
February 28, 2008 at 8:58 pm
secondharmonic says:
That’s right: it’s not *just* wankery, it’s Über-wankery, if you catch my drift.
February 28, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Wouldn’t uber-wankery be the same as “the highest form of wankery”, except with a cool sounding German prefix?
February 28, 2008 at 10:13 pm
You’re thinking of ‘das mötley über-wankery’.
February 28, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Jonah ist der überwichser!
February 28, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Chomsky wins, bitches:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123087033
February 29, 2008 at 5:14 am
What is this crap? Show me the funny!
February 29, 2008 at 5:47 am
Apropos of, well, the Jonah in hte Belly of the Turducken Whale mythos, here is how I’ve always pictured The Keyboard Kommandos manipulating the Jonah to make the silly but impressively large ass of himself that his mother wished him to be:
Reporting to you dangerously live within the belly of the beast
February 29, 2008 at 7:09 am
Jonanism is certainly a “neolojism” — i.e. a word coined out of the name of a neocon wanker.
February 29, 2008 at 7:51 am
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February 29, 2008 at 8:29 am
Glad tidings from Genesis 38:10!
10 And the thing which Jonan did displeased the LORD; therefore He killed him also.
February 29, 2008 at 9:13 am
Laugh all you want, and I’m laughing with you, but Jonah’s book will be #1 on the NYT bestseller list next week. However it got there, it is there.
A depressing sign of our time.
February 29, 2008 at 9:38 am
First, “Jonanism”, then
I thought Jonanism was the highest form of wankery.
Can it be coincidence that these brilliant jewels show up on Leap Day? There’s gotta be a god out there after all!
February 29, 2008 at 9:41 am
Praise Jay-zus!
Jonanism is certainly a “neolojism” — i.e. a word coined out of the name of a neocon wanker.
Glory Hallelujah!!
February 29, 2008 at 11:42 am
Jonah spills more seed on himself.
February 29, 2008 at 11:43 am
Oh, damn. I’m really quite bad at the blockquoting here. The paragraph about Fussell is mine, not his.
February 29, 2008 at 11:56 am
“…Jonah’s book will be #1 on the NYT bestseller list next week.”
Highest I’ve seen it is 6th, and it seems to be on its way down.
I agree it’s still too high, but at least Colbert is higher.
February 29, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Uli, I don’t know, maybe K-Lo is pulling my leg, but this is where I got the info. And I trust K-Lo implicitly, of course.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWVjOTdhYWM2ZDU3Yzg3NTdjM2M3NWI2YjdkOGUyODc=
February 29, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I’m curious, but not enough to click the link. Traffic being the lifeblood of websites, it’s why I never click on Hitchens, HuffPo, The Corner, NRO, etc., though they’re otherwise “free”.
February 29, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Uli, Jonah posted a “one is the loneliest number” link yesterday to this at the link in my comment above:
“Not a Bad Legacy [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
If you ask me, the Right thrives, and it, with all its thinking and pushback and debating, is Bill Buckley’s living legacy.
And it’s no bad thing that Jonah Goldberg’s important book, Liberal Fascism, will be #1 on the New York Times bestseller list next week.
(image of partial screen shot of what is evidently next week’s NYT bestseller list, dated March 9, with a circle around Jonah at #1)
Congrats to two friends. One on a life’s work remarkably well done and another on the work he does brilliantly well today and will continue to through many tomorrows.
02/28 08:19 AM”
February 29, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I thought this was the worst thing I’d read about today — RCH, your item is worser.
February 29, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I have nothing to say but I want to be able to say, later, that I posted on this brilliant thread.
aimai
February 29, 2008 at 2:53 pm
What aimai said.
February 29, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Et Tu TS? Me Too
February 29, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Me, I’m just marking time, waiting for the “Hillary answers the phone at 3 A.M.” thread.
February 29, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Anyone familiar with the publishing industry (specifically the stratum of that industry located in Manhattan) knows that the NYT Top Ten List has as much in common with nationwide book sales as “Liberal Fascism” has in common with historiography or political analysis.
Although I’d buy a ticket to watch Jonasm try to say ‘historiography’ out loud.
February 29, 2008 at 5:56 pm
secondharmonic causes us AGAIN to turn in our commenter cards in shame. This is like Exxon saying in 2050, when the economy has ground to a halt “we’re not going to run out of oil because we’ve discovered vast untapped stores, directly under the very ground where we’ve been looking all this time!!!!”
February 29, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Boy, Pinko, you’re easy.
I’m starting to get askeered that pretty soon you’ll be telling us to hang our heads in shame because Jonah riposted a Juan Cole argument with “Oh yeah? Sez you!!”
Although secondharmonic’s comment WAS pretty neat. Just not spit-take-grade neat.
February 29, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Swallow-take?
February 29, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Me, I’m just marking time, waiting for the “Hillary answers the phone at 3 A.M.” thread.
Be sure to add this to the thread, mm?
February 29, 2008 at 9:10 pm
fish -
Well played.
March 1, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Jonanism outsourced.
From a reader, of course.
March 1, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Just thought I’d let you know that Bill O’Reilly is getting on the case of Blogofascism.
March 2, 2008 at 2:14 am
I teed it up for fishwagon. That’s how we roll.
March 3, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Johah’s invisable friend:
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg205/fozzetti/separatedatbirth.jpg
March 5, 2008 at 4:08 pm
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