dang. i read the first sentence, and was all excited, and googled "shit sandwich" and to find that page, and then saw the B+ hyperlink. pwned. i wonder what its like to actually listen to his radio show. those segments where he and lileks rib each other very heterosexually about target and bad taste in music and islamofascists must be something else.
also, the fact that he was a congressman shakes my fundamental faith in democracy.
I think it's best to let the experts plumb these depths.
Class o' 94, I would guess. Him and Joe Scarborough. Lotta crazies got voted in that year.
I heard his radio show once. He is a big Harriet Myers fan.
Hewitt is Hindrocket, but without all the smarts and intellectual integrity. Here's my favorite Hewitt tardsplosion.
congressman. i wonder if he ever partied down on the Duke-Stir. is kevin drum the only sane person south of los angeles?
i didn't know about the law professor bit. damn. not bad enough that he's shaken my faith in democracy, now he has to make shit-sandwiches out of my notion that all this stupid con law i'm trying to learn might inform my ethical intelligence?
The maniac is a law professor. (Of course, so is InstaHack.) My old boss (emphatically not one of my favorite people) just became a prof at Hugh's law school.
Is a B+-- a grade only awarded in philosophy departments?
is kevin drum the only sane person south of los angeles?
Kevin is the only sane person south of San Louis Obispo.
Kevin is the only sane person south of San Louis Obispo.
I don't know whether to be offended by that, or amazed that you diagnosed my problems from afar.
1: Wait wait wait. What's the source for calling him a congressman? I'm almost certain that's not right...
Yeah, I've never heard that either, and it seems like the kind of thing one would have heard.
Congressman Hewitt. I guess he's just really old.
y'know, i might be wrong about that one. huh. well, i apologize for that one, congress. i guess now all i have against you is abject refusal to assert your bare authority in our system of checks and balances. still odious, but in a different way.
"Have you ever read Hugh Hewitt? "
Sure.
He's everything that most lefty/libs who found the blogosophere in the last two years think and claim Glenn Reynolds is, but isn't. He's a Bush-can-do-no-wrong man, and a total whore. Glenn is only part-time, and still spends a moderate amount of time thinking for himself, even if much of that thinking has become entirely delusional via his echo-chamber.
Hewitt just wants to follow the chief dog and sniff his behind as much as possible.
Hindrocket is probably dumber than either, but I can't say for absolutely sure. (I'm sure he's dumber than Glenn; dumbness and delusionhood don't walk hand in hand, though, they just date a lot.)
Should I say, "Gary, we agree" or "Gary Gary Gary, I made that point months ago"?
I don't agree about Hindrocket, though. That man is an artist.
"Should I say, "Gary, we agree" or "Gary Gary Gary, I made that point months ago"?"
We agree because we are, of course, correct.
I hadn't forgotten that thread.
That response ogged linked to twice is sort of touchy, especially since it was responding to something which might not even rise to the level of light ribbing relative to most of this blog. I wonder if he's hiding something?
Also, ogged, it was nice meeting you at the meetup and it's too bad I didn't have more of a chance to talk to you, the table layout wasn't conducive.
Smart dumb versus dumb dumb.
"Delusional" doesn't intersect so much with smarts, to be sure, and I'd have been smarter, myself, to use that term/frame. But I'm dumb, myself, much of the time. We could talk about "more consistently wrong about politics," if we want to get more boringly accurate, and less concerned about the income of other litigators, if that helps. (It's easy for me to say that, not having to have paid for -- or gotten loans for -- a stint in law school, to be sure.)