cloacal … nepotism … absurdly broad and comically wrongheaded … a caricature … bizarro … thoroughgoing incoherence … oxymoron … classic Newspeak … Newspeak incarnate … grotesquely misrepresents … incorrectly claims … false characterization … almost comical upending of reality … Michelle Malkin … Ann Coulter … selects a narrow band of often unrepresentative facts, distorts their meaning, and simultaneously elides and ignores whole mountains of contravening evidence and broader context … an absurd and nakedly self-serving thing … complete with copious but meaningless footnotes … pseudo-academic veneer
Really.
The Edge of the American West 
20 comments
January 9, 2008 at 4:10 pm
ari
“Pseudo-academic veneer” was the name of my first band.
January 9, 2008 at 4:11 pm
eric
I thought “Decentered Dreamgirl” was a pretty good single, too.
January 9, 2008 at 4:18 pm
ari
Thanks. Had it been available in any format other than cassingle, we might have had a hit on our hands.
January 9, 2008 at 4:34 pm
But I’m Sure Bent Blüdnikow Will Like It at Jacob Christensen
[…] Edge of the American West has what I would call the Captain Haddock Summary of the […]
January 9, 2008 at 4:45 pm
urbino
“Pony Bites” was bitchin’, too.
“Pseudo-academic veneer”
Is it just me, or is that somehow redundant?
January 9, 2008 at 5:10 pm
eric
You could have a pseudo-academic career over a genuinely academic core. You hear cynical people arguing that’s how you get tenure.
Also, “cloacal” is the real champion, there.
January 9, 2008 at 5:16 pm
ari
Have you ever noticed that your head is cocked to the right and mine to the left? Should we pitch a show to CNN?
January 9, 2008 at 5:31 pm
urbino
“Cockfire”?
“Crosscocks”?
“Sword Fight”?
January 9, 2008 at 5:53 pm
matt w
Your suggestions are reminiscent of something that has already been done. If Eric’s head tilts to the right, I guess that makes him Trevino.
(Eric, did you tell me to stop comparing you to Trevino? Sorry.)
January 9, 2008 at 5:56 pm
matt w
Pls substitute this link.
January 9, 2008 at 6:00 pm
silbey
“An awe-inspiring cascade:”
It’s unprecedented!*
*some caveats may apply. Do not use heavy machinery.
January 9, 2008 at 6:17 pm
eric
If Eric’s head tilts to the right, I guess that makes him Trevino
Don’t make me cut you, Matt. I’m serious.
January 9, 2008 at 6:44 pm
ari
It’s a wonder that the blogosphere is so masculine. It really is.
January 9, 2008 at 7:22 pm
urbino
Now we bump chests, right?
January 9, 2008 at 8:01 pm
ari
Yes, chests. That’s it.
January 9, 2008 at 9:05 pm
eric
You’re mocking me because I added the illustration to the other post, aren’t you.
January 10, 2008 at 9:41 am
bitchphd
Of course the (lefty, academic) blogosphere is masculine. Fascists simply love that phallic imagery.
January 11, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Alice Paul, Ron Paul, Paul Lynde « The Edge of the American West
[…] about the hyper-masculine tone of the blog — and the blogosphere generally — what with Eric threatening to cut people. (He’ll do it. Do NOT cross […]
January 13, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Vance Maverick
What is it with the misattributed comments on this blog? Right now I see several familiar comments from Jan. 9, 10, and 11 on a post from the 13th.
In response to this post, as a Southern Californian in exile, I would draw a distinction between a beautiful campus and a beautiful setting. The photo sorts with my memories of visiting Pomona ca. 1981 when in high school — that’s a serious chunk of Brutalism (and a serious tract of golf-course green) weighing down your mountain vistas.
January 13, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Vance Maverick
Hmm, I thought I was commenting on the Cal Poly post. Now I look like the rube.