Laugh, of course:
What’s the difference between BloodhoundBlog and a porcupine?
With the porcupine the pricks are on the outside.
It’s quoted from Dustin Luther’s High Temple of Unidirectional Virtue. (“Where poking fun at other people is always wrong, except when we’re doing it.”)
The joke is stolen, of course, but it’s still funny. Anyway, who expects originality from trolls?
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Mike Farmer says:
Yes, indeed, laugh. Although I am offended and expect a loud and persistent outcry of moral outrage in our defense.
February 25, 2008 — 12:01 pm
Greg Swann says:
Y’all got the worst of it, for sure. Always taking flak from grenades aimed at me. You have my apologies, anyway, if that helps.
February 25, 2008 — 12:04 pm
Bob says:
It surprised me to see that it was still there. I would have thought that it would have been removed, if for no other reason than it applied to people who had no stake in the squabble other than just being contributers.
February 25, 2008 — 12:14 pm
Teri Lussier says:
I do find that funny since I’ve never been called a prick before.
Ah well, consider the source.
February 25, 2008 — 1:04 pm
Greg Swann says:
> I would have thought that it would have been removed, if for no other reason than it applied to people who had no stake in the squabble other than just being contributers.
Nah. Dustin Luther himself called Mike Farmer, Teri Lussier and Cathleen Collins “disingenuous” — that is to say, liars — for daring to question his behavior. It’s hard to be a saint in the city…
February 25, 2008 — 1:33 pm
Kevin Tomlinson says:
Is there such a thing as virtual Kevlar?
February 25, 2008 — 9:01 pm
Teri Lussier says:
It’s standard issue for BHB contributors. 🙂
February 25, 2008 — 9:14 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Is there such a thing as virtual Kevlar?
😉
On the internet, everything is Kevlar.
This is for real, and it’s a lesson people are slowly learning all over the globe:
1. Muscle power accumulates, brain power does not. A group of people is no smarter than its smartest member, and the sclerosis imposed by group decision-making will tend to make a typical group seem to behave as though it were dumber than its dumbest member.
2. Groups cannot interdict the flow of information, so there is no longer any way to prevent most of the people on earth from discovering anything they wish to know. The middle-men who have been disintermediated first were the people who wanted to prevent the other members of their groups from gaining free access to the truth.
3. Even when they manage to cohere, groups have no power where they cannot amass muscles or accumulate weapons.
4. In consequence, any competent individual can take on and defeat any group of people on the internet, no matter how large it might be.
Ergo, on the internet, Socrates would have lived.
This is the triumph of the Greek ideal, an amazing, world-changing accomplishment.
February 25, 2008 — 9:22 pm