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Dear Mr Halperin May 1, 2009

Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, bigotry.
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Kindly go fuck yourself.

Kisses,

EB

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1. Raging Bee - May 4, 2009

Yo, Bender, long time no see! Hear from Kentucky Fried Sophist Martin Cothran lately?

(I posted on his blog as Motheral, just for the record.)

I read Halperin’s novels a long time ago. Wierd, to be sure, but good in their own respective weird ways. I was about to ask what he’d got up to since the people he wrote speeches for got kickied to the curb; now I have my answer, and I wish I hadn’t asked. What a sad waste of talent.

2. Evil Bender - May 4, 2009

Hi Bee/Motheral. Thanks for stopping back by. I haven’t read Halperin’s work, but I must say that “sad waste of talent” definitely reflects my opinion of the writing I have seen from him.

I’ve largely been ignoring Cothran, except to watch him make a fool of himself while being exposed as a dishonest hack by Josh Rosenau.

3. Raging Bee - May 4, 2009

So who is this Josh Roseenau guy? Someone Cothran will be threatening to ban soon, as he did with me?

If I weren’t feeling so tired on Election Night, I would have checked out Cothran’s blog, just to see his head explode when “That One” won.

4. Evil Bender - May 4, 2009

Bee: I think you’d like Rosenau’s blog.

He’s proving to be much more patient with Cothran that I was. But he deals with ignorance professionally, so maybe that makes a difference.

Cothran’s head explosions are hilarious, but I grow tired of his insistence on using the most dishonest tactics available, given that he apparently instructs students in argument and logic. Ugh.

5. Raging Bee - May 4, 2009

That may be part of Cothran’s pathology: he knows he’s THE eminent expert in logic (in his hometown at least); therefore all of his arguments are, ipso facto, logical. I don’t know this for sure, but he may in fact be incapable of admitting to himself that he’s capable of making illogical statements, or that logic doesn’t work when inconvenient facts aren’t allowed to enter the process.

Another possibility, of course, is that he became a logic prof. in order to have more tools to defend illogical prejudices; which he seems to spend a lot fo his time doing. I mean, calling Obama anti-Jewish? Puh-lease. Is he a birfer too?