Comments on: Should Maureen Cover Up? http://www.edrants.com/should-maureen-cover-up/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dan http://www.edrants.com/should-maureen-cover-up/comment-page-1/#comment-261495 dan Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:29:05 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10642#comment-261495 she has incredibly great tits, dude. she has incredibly great tits, dude.

]]> By: Josh http://www.edrants.com/should-maureen-cover-up/comment-page-1/#comment-251715 Josh Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:26:44 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10642#comment-251715 Aware of all Internet traditions, I immediately recognized the object of the parody and understood that the outrageousness of MoDo's vulgarity was responsible for the tone of the Championic commentary. I mean, is there any other conceivable way short of self-immolation to respond to The Dowd? There have been occasions where I thought that a Reluctant Habits parody was misdirected, but if you want to write a commentary on MD that's longer than "Please make it stop," you probably gotta be this vulgar and caustic: it's she, not you, who's so numbed our outrage receptors as to make that necessary. I found your piece cathartic. Aware of all Internet traditions, I immediately recognized the object of the parody and understood that the outrageousness of MoDo’s vulgarity was responsible for the tone of the Championic commentary. I mean, is there any other conceivable way short of self-immolation to respond to The Dowd?

There have been occasions where I thought that a Reluctant Habits parody was misdirected, but if you want to write a commentary on MD that’s longer than “Please make it stop,” you probably gotta be this vulgar and caustic: it’s she, not you, who’s so numbed our outrage receptors as to make that necessary. I found your piece cathartic.

]]> By: DrMabuse http://www.edrants.com/should-maureen-cover-up/comment-page-1/#comment-251676 DrMabuse Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:29:45 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10642#comment-251676 Has it occurred to you, Mike, that vulgar columnists require vulgar parodies in order to assure verisimilitude? You clearly are against vulgarity if you take offense to this. In any event, I wish you the best of reading elsewhere. It's comments like yours that keep me going. (Oh, and you might want to click on the "Michelle Obama's biceps" link to understand the context for this column.) Has it occurred to you, Mike, that vulgar columnists require vulgar parodies in order to assure verisimilitude? You clearly are against vulgarity if you take offense to this. In any event, I wish you the best of reading elsewhere. It’s comments like yours that keep me going.

(Oh, and you might want to click on the “Michelle Obama’s biceps” link to understand the context for this column.)

]]> By: Mike http://www.edrants.com/should-maureen-cover-up/comment-page-1/#comment-251675 Mike Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:55:59 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10642#comment-251675 Well, Ed, if you were trying to offend and scare off readers, you've succeeded, or, in my case, bored them to death with a post so juvenile in nature, I had to check to make sure I wasn't reading choice outtakes from a Matt Taibbi column. I will no longer be viewing your site, or reading any of your inane, pointless, vulgar posts. I'm certainly not against vulgarity, but you've degenerated well beyond the usual angry curmudgeon into some pointless rambler who, when at loss for a word, feels no qualms about dropping a "fuck" here and a "shit" there. Your site was, for a time, rather entertaining and, at times, informative. Now, you focus on ranting and raving about unqualified book review editors or those who dare to think that blogs are an inferior form of journalism (reading this column, it's easy to see why). Or, wait, am I just too dense? Is that what you'll say? Some philistine who just doesn't get "blog" culture? Please, it's posts like these that give blogs a bad name. Try to aim your criticism a bit higher and focus on the issues instead of going for the cheap shot. A Barnes & Noble.com reviewer should know better. Well, Ed, if you were trying to offend and scare off readers, you’ve succeeded, or, in my case, bored them to death with a post so juvenile in nature, I had to check to make sure I wasn’t reading choice outtakes from a Matt Taibbi column. I will no longer be viewing your site, or reading any of your inane, pointless, vulgar posts. I’m certainly not against vulgarity, but you’ve degenerated well beyond the usual angry curmudgeon into some pointless rambler who, when at loss for a word, feels no qualms about dropping a “fuck” here and a “shit” there. Your site was, for a time, rather entertaining and, at times, informative. Now, you focus on ranting and raving about unqualified book review editors or those who dare to think that blogs are an inferior form of journalism (reading this column, it’s easy to see why). Or, wait, am I just too dense? Is that what you’ll say? Some philistine who just doesn’t get “blog” culture? Please, it’s posts like these that give blogs a bad name. Try to aim your criticism a bit higher and focus on the issues instead of going for the cheap shot. A Barnes & Noble.com reviewer should know better.

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