Comments on: Manhattan Building Explodes

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:33:49 +0000

Xrlq:

Wow, you were thorough. So thorough, in fact, that you deleted all the parts where I condemned the habit, all the parts where I said “name-calling is unconditionally wrong,” and where I said “Xrlq is a bad person because he calls people names.” Actually, you deleted any references to my taking any position on the matter whatsoever. That’s pretty damn thorough, in my book.

That post was an InstaTgirsch throwaway, where I merely linked a comment I thought was funny (at your expense). To read into that post the message that “all name-calling is bad” is even more absurd than to read “Iraq and al-Qaeda are working together” into the 2003 SOTU. (Oh, wait…)

In other words, with that link, you’ve just established two things: Jack, and Shit. And Jack left town.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:05:14 +0000

Yup, I’m dishonest all right. So dishonest, in fact, that I managed to hack into your LeanLeft account and post an entry titled “On Xrlq’s Name-Calling Habit,” just to make it look as though you’d taken a position that you have never taken. Just to be extra devious, I left out any references to double-standards, real or imagined, and even backdated the entry all the way to last July, which was long before you discovered that even lamer “name-calling is name-calling is name-calling” argument you’re making now. It was almost the perfect crime. All I forgot to do was to link back to your own stated policy on name-calling, which would have made your … err, my … entry look even sillier than it did.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:47:19 +0000

Again, a position I've never taken. It's settled then. You've got nuthin. (For those not familiar with those threads, my actual beef, which Xrlq is apparently unwilling or unable to articulate in an intellectually honest fashion, is that he gripes about other people doing exactly the same thing he does even more often than they do. My policy on name-calling has been published for over two years.)

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:25:03 +0000

Oh yes, I almost forgot. Your beef is with me calling scum “scum” or morons “morons,” not with me calling “assholes” assholes. Silly me.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:32:36 +0000

Gee, X, if all you can do is attack a position I’ve never taken, then I guess you’ve got nuthin’.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:57:50 +0000

Such horrible name-calling. Couldn’t you call the guy something a little less judgmental, like maybe “procto-American?”

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:14:36 +0000

To really turn your stomach, the AP is now reporting that this may have been the result of one asshole's elaborate suicide attempt.

By: drstrangegun

drstrangegun — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:11:14 +0000

Mayor Bloomberg showed up and started giving a platform speech without giving the residents enough warning to crack their windows and vents; the resulting overpressure from all the foul, hot air caused the walls to fail and the building to explode.

By: Tel-Chai Nation

Tel-Chai Nation — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:50:31 +0000

Building collapses in Manhattan

Allahpundit at Hot Air reports that a 4-story building in New York City’s Upper East Side collapsed after a gas explosion.