Banned for Life

You be the judge.

My last blog noted my infiltration of a progressive organ. No, it wasn't the brain, as the bunch I refer to appears to have none; it was rather The Huffington Post, which, I have concluded, is the progressivists' gallbladder: nothing more than a repository of undifferentiated bile. After an illustrious career as a libertarian gadfly lasting, oh a week maybe, I have been banned for life from posting comments on the eggshell pysche's site. Here is the comment that apparently broke the jackass's back:

"Looking for factual errors and logical fallacies in Whatley's article is like looking for straw in a haystack: close your eyes, pick a sentence, and you're there. E.g., his ipse dixit definition of 'anti-intellectualism' conflates intellectualism with education and gratuitously adds, 'paranoid.' (Cf. www.merriam-webster.com: 'opposing or hostile to intellectuals or to an intellectual view or approach.') Another: '[F]ew would deny that the driving force for America's economic growth now is educated innovators.' The 'few' disagreeing would be those faithful to the facts. 'Small businesses provide half of the nation’s nonfarm, private real gross domestic product (GDP), and half of all Americans work for a small firm.' (U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy’s 2008 edition of The Small Business Economy: A Report to the President, p. 7.) Exactly what % of these SB owners is 'educated' is unaddressed by Whatley. So is 'educated' (H.S. diploma? Some college? Ph.D.? Professional Degree? Online degree?), rendering his entire article meaningless. Btw, Egghead, your opening sentence contains this solecism: 'The burgeoning conservative 'teabagger' movement, and the 'tea party' demonstrations set for Wednesday, has [sic] created. . . .'"

Perhaps my immoderate use of the grammar-school epithet "Egghead" was more than their sensitive souls could suffer.