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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Fun & Games

A few more days, a few more posts and then I'm taking a blog break until after Labour Day. This blog will return with a new design and some new stuff to make things interesting again.

Meanwhile ...

You know Rick McGinnis, he comes here to call me a 'lightweight' from time to time, hoping it will stick. He loves the right-wing tactic of agressive repetition but it isn't especially effective at the personal level ... or when it's so transparent ... or when the target of the insult prefers to be called "oblivious bimbo". Rick wound up looking like a stooge over the weekend in the comments attached to this post at Accordion Guy:

RICK: Actually, he got his MBA from Harvard. Nothing to crow about, I guess. How many Harvard degrees do you have, Martey?

MARTEY: Only one. How many do you have?

At that point the thread is just kind of funny; Rick took a poke at the guy and it turned out that he does have a Harvard degree. Good zinger but no big deal .... until Rick, obviously feeling caught, panics and blurts out:

RICK'S CAFE: Well, that's wonderful, Martey. Was it a walkover - could you have done it with one hand tied behind your back? Is it a completely valueless piece of paper? I hope not.

Or was the crack about a Yale undergraduate degree just a bit of Ivy League rivalry? I'd hate to think it was a knee-jerk crack at a president who rubs you the wrong way, contradicting everything you personally know about high-priced degrees.

I wish I had a Harvard degree, Martey. I'd settle for one from Yale. Alas, I'm one of those poor unpapered unfortunates who've had to get by without academic credentials. I do, on the other hand, have some respect for the work required to get one, which for some reason you seem happy to pretend you don't, personal experience notwithstanding.

Remember, this whole thing was sparked by a tame billboard joke poking fun at George W. Bush but Rick turns it into a self-pitying lecture about the value of "academic credentials". And look at that last sentence:

I do, on the other hand, have some respect for the work required to get one, which for some reason you seem happy to pretend you don't, personal experience notwithstanding.

Really? The Martey person had enough respect for the work to actually do it. And Rick's lecturing him? I guess his 'respect for the work' doesn't extend to the person who actually did the work.

There was also a dust up between Doskoch and Kinsella this weekend and Bill responds fully here. Warren ended his post on the subject with a threat:

I concluded by telling him I may do a column on this subject: I think Torstar and BellGlobe shareholders need to know that the "F*** the Jews" guy is being promoted by Doscock and his pal, she-who-shall-not-be-named, don't you?

Is that necessary? Doskoch's integrity is solid and lobbing a threat against him because of a little blog sparring is unreasonable. Even worse, it's an obviously empty threat, making it seem all the more childish. There's no meat for such a column.

Kinsella hates the bloggers I love!

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