tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post9220150989346348014..comments2023-10-17T14:31:52.102-04:00Comments on Est Quod Est: Yes, sir, you may have anotherPaulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-8456126732130221442015-06-06T21:05:32.008-04:002015-06-06T21:05:32.008-04:00Actually, that comment was mine. (I think I'm...Actually, that comment was mine. (I think I'm one of the "banned" now, too.)Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12782937873610761699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-70600610096347596212014-03-01T16:43:53.532-05:002014-03-01T16:43:53.532-05:00Rod's BFF, Vlad Putin, has decided he wants so...Rod's BFF, Vlad Putin, has decided he wants some land in the Ukraine. Can't blame him, really. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_in_Ukraine" rel="nofollow">There's a lot to like about that region.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/whats-russias-game/" rel="nofollow">Too bad Plato doesn't understand this.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-34552646402091232882014-03-01T02:10:03.786-05:002014-03-01T02:10:03.786-05:00Speaking of hometown blogging, it looks like Drehe...Speaking of hometown blogging, it looks like Dreher pulled down the Bonnie Blue Review. <br /><br />http://westfeliciana.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Having his hat handed to him by a local politician must have been too much for our Working Boy to deal with, or let stand on the Internet for eternity.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-37865743359724409762014-02-28T19:14:06.994-05:002014-02-28T19:14:06.994-05:00Meanwhile, Erin seems to be more than happy in the...Meanwhile, Erin seems to be more than happy in the role Rod has chosen for her - just being noticed by the Great Man over there seems to bring a girlishly giddy verve to her comments - so who am I to rock that boat any further? People inevitably find the level they really want to occupy in life, and she seems happy with hers.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-31249610264565004252014-02-28T19:09:54.163-05:002014-02-28T19:09:54.163-05:00You know, here's a fascinating if farfetched t...You know, here's a fascinating if farfetched thought: I wonder if Allison is grooming Dreher to be the sucker he eventually unloads TAC on to cut his losses. That way everybody gets what they want: Allison gets out, TAC <b><i>becomes</i></b> Dreher, and Dreher and his temple virgins get all Dreher, all the time. Take that, Templeton!<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-9853814527071048682014-02-28T17:47:31.407-05:002014-02-28T17:47:31.407-05:00Dreher Agonistes, or How Dante Saved My Life.<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/dante-the-american-conservative/" rel="nofollow">Dreher Agonistes, or How Dante Saved My Life</a>.Oengushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537779684816982064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-78452713380995146702014-02-28T13:17:30.946-05:002014-02-28T13:17:30.946-05:00In this case I think you may be mistaking congenit...In this case I think you may be mistaking congenitally dishonest intellectual power bottom Dreher waltzing across stage in his best organdy frock lip-syncing Hillary's "What difference, at this point, does it make?" for his Ambien-drugged laziness.<br /><br />His Ambien-drugged laziness is why mowing the lawn has been added to all the rest of Mrs. Dreher's household chores while Working Boy tackles wolfing down buttered steak and sitting in his cozy corner.<br /><br />But Dreher's resistance to gay marriage has never been anything more than the most tepid, dry, abstract peripheral references to religious liberty he could choke out. Anything more would jeopardize his relationship to the big bareback bear Andy Sullivan and to the probably third of his audience who is gay and to NPR, which he desperately needs to sell anything outside the relative ghetto of small-niche-micro-genre Christian publishing, like death/grief&bereavement/southern/sibling/sister/younger/tomboy/firstnamebeginswithr. Much easier to point dramatically - for his TAC readership especially - and say "The Republicans failed us on religious liberty! The capitalist Cathedral fix is in! Now where is the towl with which to dry my freshly washed hands?"<br /><br />No, on this subject Dreher's cheeks are stained with a muddy mix of mascara and a liberal helping of crocodile tears.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-21858903610156911682014-02-28T10:22:44.706-05:002014-02-28T10:22:44.706-05:00Once again the Working Boy demonstrates why he is ...Once again the Working Boy demonstrates why he is an abject failure as a journalist or "thinker". <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/bacevich-arizona-cathedral-gop-republicans-arizona-religious-liberty/#post-comments" rel="nofollow">His statement in this post can only be interpreted as the whine of an intellectually lazy person.</a><br /><br />"I told them quite honestly that I didn’t have an opinion, because I hadn’t researched the details of the bills, which were being widely denounced as the second coming of Jim Crow. I had — and do have — serene faith that were these bills passed into law, the courts would overturn them, because that’s what the Cathedral’s canon law tribunals courts do these days on gay issues. Why bother learning about a bill that will not withstand court scrutiny anyway, no matter how carefully drafted and precise? It may have been a sound bill, it may have been a terrible bill, but the point is, the fix is in. None of this matters anymore."<br /><br />In other words, it might require him to motivate his Ambien-addled self to actually look into what Arizona (and Georgia, and Tennessee, and several other states) is trying to do legislatively to protect religious freedom. Rather than investigate and give an informed opinion one way or another he chooses the lazy way out.<br /><br />And he gets paid for this...amazing!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-75385189080020283432014-02-26T17:50:14.442-05:002014-02-26T17:50:14.442-05:00Oengus, Rod Dreher likes to paint himself as the q...Oengus, Rod Dreher likes to paint himself as the quintessential anti-Enlightenment, pre-Modern religiously seeking man, but the greatest irony (besides his contempt for any generation older than his) is that Dreher is peculiarly and uniquely the creature of the age of the internet and could not possibly exist as we know him without it. Maybe Pauli or Pik can substantiate this even further, maybe even in a post, with some Dreher references I don't have.<br /><br />But here's my take: any pre-internet Enlightenment culture would subject Dreher to rational scrutiny, which he could not escape by his own reality-editing as he does with his comments and which his casual, daily self-contradictions continue to fail consistently. OTOH, and pre-internet pre-Enlightenment "Benedictine" sort of religious shame culture would subject him to own particular conformity which he would fail for the basic reason Pik identifies, namely, that Dreher is ultimately driven, not by any sort of principle, religious or otherwise, but only by his ongoing idiosyncratic tastes.<br /><br />So a Rod Dreher can flourish only in a market broad enough to approach infinity - which he can regulate. And the planet-wide English-speaking blogosphere uniquely offers him that opportunity and the only reason he's visible today.<br /><br />Out of 6-7 billion people, I think it's safe to say that probably at least a billion are both on the internet and can read English. All he has to do is connect with enough of those people who are both hungry for the verbal comfort food casseroles he slops together and are also acceptable to him and he has his blog flock, or spiritual cult, or Facebook likes, or whatever post-internet age social network option he wants. And, as his tastes in audience change, he can change them out to follow.<br /><br />In no prior age of communication could that sort of mass amateur/failure connection be possible: everything prior was limited by <b><i>standards</i></b> more significant than "clicks".<br /><br /><br /><br />But like any aging little Debbie taking her Secret Diary scrawlings global, there's absolutely nothing non-New-Agey about Dreher, Lord of the Clicks. Except of course his pretensions.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-9494485523141408902014-02-26T16:09:11.589-05:002014-02-26T16:09:11.589-05:00I dunno, Pik & others. Right here Rod explains...I dunno, Pik & others. Right <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/columnists-james-poulos-media-ideas/" rel="nofollow">here</a> Rod explains why he'd be one of the most respected and widely read columnists writing today is he wanted to be.<br /><br />And you know he's financially better off than most, because he linked to a fee-based CFP. <br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-32084041116132646112014-02-26T15:29:08.656-05:002014-02-26T15:29:08.656-05:00Rod says he writes for those who want to make thei...Rod says he writes for those who want to make their living at it. What on earth would he have to say to them that is of any value? Clearly he failed as a journalist (by his own admission in another NFR), and the sales of CC or TLWORL are certainly nothing to brag about. <br /><br />Is he speaking to those who wish to succeed in writing by demonstrating how *not* to do it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-82400220192731987822014-02-26T15:09:53.752-05:002014-02-26T15:09:53.752-05:00What a stupid post by Dreher, with of course his a...What a stupid post by Dreher, with of course his arrogance and narcissism piled on. That's before mentioning that he stupidly misses the most important rule: <br /><br />0. Write something that someone is willing to pay money to read. <br /><br />More broadly stated, write something of value. pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-15211017009498029802014-02-26T15:01:00.264-05:002014-02-26T15:01:00.264-05:00Keith: "Diane, are you indulging in paranoid ...Keith: <i>"Diane, are you indulging in paranoid silliness?"</i><br /><br />RD: <i>"If you want to write for free, bully for you. I address people who want to make their living at it."</i><br /><br />After looking at the NFR, I wondered in amazement. Is there anyone there in his family who can honestly tell Dreher just how pompous he sounds? I almost feel embarrassed for the guy. If I was coming off like a jerk, I would hope my family would at least tell me.<br /><br />The first thing I though was:<br /><br /> <i>"Man, you're stuck deep in a hole. The first thing you have got to do is stop digging!"</i><br /><br />My other thought was "who would even want his advice?"Oengushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537779684816982064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-44806156587771610522014-02-26T12:47:34.676-05:002014-02-26T12:47:34.676-05:00Diane, are you indulging in paranoid silliness?
K...Diane, are you indulging in <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-awful-truth-about-the-writing-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4458237" rel="nofollow">paranoid silliness?</a><br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-14592127343049056912014-02-26T12:25:30.938-05:002014-02-26T12:25:30.938-05:00To your point, Keith: Why doesn't Dreher use ...To your point, Keith: Why doesn't Dreher use his clout and network reach to put Erin in touch with agents and publishers who could help her get her stuff published?<br /><br />I think thr answer's simple: He's a narcissistic control freak. And narcissistic control freaks feel threatened by other people who may have as much talent as they do (or more). They do not assist those people; they squash them flatter than junebugs. Believe me, after so many years in the corporate world,I know the syndrome well.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-63930612359043649342014-02-26T12:21:22.650-05:002014-02-26T12:21:22.650-05:00I have no idea why that comment showed up in tripl...I have no idea why that comment showed up in triplicate! Sorry!Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-58932484401429124232014-02-26T09:41:59.092-05:002014-02-26T09:41:59.092-05:00I read Erin's comment but couldn't bear to...I read Erin's comment but couldn't bear to wade through the NFR.<br /><br />What struck me is that Erin is a hell of a better writer than Rod is. Judging by her comment, at least.<br /><br />And, of course, every word she writes is true.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-60889342094821928862014-02-26T09:41:54.077-05:002014-02-26T09:41:54.077-05:00I read Erin's comment but couldn't bear to...I read Erin's comment but couldn't bear to wade through the NFR.<br /><br />What struck me is that Erin is a hell of a better writer than Rod is. Judging by her comment, at least.<br /><br />And, of course, every word she writes is true.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-76408057959442811942014-02-26T09:41:40.325-05:002014-02-26T09:41:40.325-05:00I read Erin's comment but couldn't bear to...I read Erin's comment but couldn't bear to wade through the NFR.<br /><br />What struck me is that Erin is a hell of a better writer than Rod is. Judging by her comment, at least.<br /><br />And, of course, every word she writes is true.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.com