May 6, 2011

Pile the Dead High Enough to Scale the Walls

Russell Hodin, 5/5/11:
Hodin is damn sure that the deaths of half of a million Iraqis and Afghanis is totally justified by the fact that we finally bagged bin Laden.

Oh, wait, he probably doesn't care about Muslim civilian deaths to begin with. I mean, who does, right?

Well, except for this guy:

(Andy Singer, 5/3/11)
Posted by Andrew Wheeler at 9:00 AM
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3 comments:

  1. EUROman9:58 PM, May 06, 2011

    I think Hodin is showing uncle Sam tipping the scales in his favour, by adding weight to the end he favours with his thumb... meaning he doesn't think it carries as much weight as it seems.
    unless of course you were being sarcastic, in which case you really should end it with "/sarcasm" because sarcasm does not translate well over the web.

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  2. Andrew Wheeler8:52 PM, May 07, 2011

    EUROman: I really can't stand that defeatist "sarcasm doesn't work on the Internet" idea; there is no inherent property in electronic media that strips out the markers of sarcasm that work in other written media. There are clueless readers, and there are insufficiently clear writers, no matter what form text is delivered in. But sarcasm works as well here as it does anywhere else.

    I'd also like to note that if you haven't yet detected any sarcasm in this particular blog, your detector must have its calibration settings completely maxed out. Sarcasm is not the only point of Editorial Explanations, but it's one of our three chief weapons (along with fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency).

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  3. Anonymous1:02 AM, May 11, 2011

    I really can't stand that defeatist "sarcasm doesn't work on the Internet" idea; there is no inherent property in electronic media that strips out the markers of sarcasm that work in other written media. There are clueless readers, and there are insufficiently clear writers, no matter what form text is delivered in. But sarcasm works as well here as it does anywhere else.

    That is well said.

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