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Wednesday, February 20, 2002

Screedish Crankery from Lileks
When I think of screedish crankery, there are few who do it better than Mr. Lileks. Today he runs through a marriage-control advocate and basically says 'They can take my matrimony from me when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.'

... On the radio today I heard an hour-long interview with some hay-headed professor who teaches a class in gender, class, ethnicity, paper, plastic, Heinz, and Hunts. She believes that the family is the greatest threat to humanity today - specifically, the (crash of thunder, neighing of frightened horses) Patriarchal Family, with its army of thick-browed brutes picking their teeth with bowie knives while their cowering wives sit hunched in the corner, polishing daddy’s brass knuckles. If’n I see any yore hair left on them, you’re in for a whuppin agin, and this time I ain’t stoppin’ for refreshments. Ah’ve been readin’ up onna my Playboys, an’ they done taught me how to drink while beatin’, and Ah’ve got a pahrful hankerin’ to try. It’s us menfolk whut breed terrorism, and our very desire to be part of our children’s lives just turns them into al Qaeda cellmembers.

Now you see the violence inherent in the system!

... No, she gets a job, and an audience, and a state stipend, because the long hard coil of her stool contains a few fossilized remains of doctrines still worshipped in places where the light of recent history has yet to penetrate.

Misogynist oppressor!

At some point a society’s ability to indulge this sort of bullshittery is a sign of its weakness, not its strength. Anyone whose prescription for the troubled dynamics of some familial relationships is the abolition of ALL such relationships is a hapless crank, and if we have to keep these people on the public payroll then we’d better start hiring flat-earthers for the geology department.

Silly man--everyone knows the earth is hollow.

posted by Terry at 8:30:00 AM

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