So too, apparently, at Comedy Central where blogger Dennis DiClaudio takes a stab at my post on the evolutionary thinking of the suspect in the Holocaust Museum shooting, James von Brunn. I think DiClaudio has been getting comedy hints from Ezra's pal Baruch.
He writes:
Wow. Somebody hurry up and invent an Einstein Award for Excellence in the Field of Thinking, because this Klinghoffer guy totally deserves it.
He has clearly proven that if a person "draws lessons" (otherwise known as completely misrepresenting an idea so as to create a bull---t justification for a flawed and hateful belief system) from a thing, that thing becomes completely responsible the person's actions.
Clearly, this DiClaudio guy has a bright future ahead on Jon Stewart's writing staff. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.

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Yes, the original was sufficiently ridiculous that a parody of it falls flat.
Glen Davidson
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They used to say "punning is the lowest form of humor" but I think sarcasm is. It's cheap, cowardly, self-indulgent hostility from the weak. It's hit-and-run. It's pure destruction, causing the target to waste decoding time. But that's not what I really think about it :)
Name-calling, false associations, guilt-by-association (false or not), and smearing are also unimpressive forms of rhetoric, right up there with sarcasm :)
I absolutely disagree your link between Darwin and this guy, but DiClaudio's comeback was not funny and was barely coherent. That falls under the definately-not-worth-my-time list.
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