The Talking Dog described each blog (more than 200) on his blogroll in glowing terms. But now he shows that the dog can bite as well as it can talk.
U.S.S. Clueless is the eponymous blog of Steven den Beste of California; the eponymous part, BTW, is the “clueless”, rather than the “beste”, which this blog is, well, NOT. In fact, den Beste seems to go out of his way to answer the question of what we would get if the owner of the comic book store in the Simpsons had his own blog. It would have a general Star Trek theme, and would be self-indulgent to the point of nauseating. Den Beste doesn’t put up posts: he puts up daily manifestos, that require not just having the time one could have from not having a job or significant other and living in your parents’ basement to WRITE them, his posts also require a similarly insane amount of time just to READ them. Worse, in substance, the political commentary ranges from “reactionary” to “Neanderthal”. The blogroll is jealously guarded, short, and if one writes to Mr. den Beste to ask to be on it, one can expect a response as lengthy, incoherent and self-indulgent as one of his posts. It is NOT a good sign that this is one of the most widely read blogs out there.
TD Designation: Rabid dog, Euthanasia Recommended
Ouch!
Ouch is right. I hope nobody ever has to say anything like that about my blog!
Have you read Den Beste? At first, his opinions just seemed wrong and long-winded, but he has really gone off the deep end now.
Plus the Talking Dog’s post is very succint and humorous (of the nasty kind). I have to admit it had me laughing.
I haven’t read much of Den Beste, although I’ve read a lot ABOUT him, enough to get the joke. For awhile, I was reading somebody’s “shorter den Beste” which produced a one or two sentence summary. I’m afraid I gave up pretty quickly on trying to read the actual thing.
From analysis of my own writings and analysis of others (well Jordan S. Bassior to be more accurate) I have come to these conclusions,
1 Do not check up facts or figures.
Generally it takes quite alot of time to do this, so avoid it.
2 Do not remove anything because it doesn’t fit in with your argument.
That’s valuable stuff you are throwing away there.
3 Always reply.
It is the highest indignity to not have the last word in a conversation, a sign of weakness even.
Or to put it another way, just type the first thing that comes into your head.
OTOH another extremely wordy blog is http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~vikash1/sasia/ which I heavily suspect is composed of academic papers that are too small to be submitted to a journal, ergo they get blogged.