JOE ORORKE | 2006-08-05
Think mderpelding's got you buffaloed, Bob. Must be a professor. Check that piece out a little bit and you'll find a little crap floating around in there. But he buffaloed you with pieces of crap. "Materialistic Christianity." Right. It's kind of funny to see you folding under all this verbal pummeling, Bob. But it's still your basic professorial crap. You should be able to deal with that. You wrote a book on professorial crapshooters, didn't you?
Comment by joe rorke
MY OBSERVATION:
You're damned right that mderpelding hit me sideways. He said so much that I know is true!
When I demanded comments like this LibAnon warned me that I was looking for people on my own intellectual level. He said there weren't any.
When was the last time YOU got a compliment like that, Joe?
Joe, you are a mean old bastard just like I am. You've been through what I've been through. You give me hell, and I would be very worried if you didn't.
But being bufalloed is what I'm LOOKING for. I think the people I want here SHOULD mostly tell me I'm right and admire my courage and perverseness.
You have been advocating Tough Guy surrender since you got here. We are both hard, crusty old men who have been through it all and never surrendered.
The difference is that I'm not a BITTER old warrior the way you are.
Instead of trying to justify the way things are, you say our enemies are beneath contempt. You don't hide behind the rationalizations of "The Greatest Generation" that JUSTIFIES the disaster we are in the middle of. You get kicked inthe teeth, but, unlike so many bitter old men, you don't pretend to LIKE it.
Joe Rorke and I have a grand total of ONE disagreement. Joe says I am engaged in nothing but intellectual masterbation and I think I am encouraging the kind of intellectual fighting back that will WIN.
Long live Joe!
Even if he is a dyed-in-the-wool Son of a Bitch.