Comments on: The Anthrax Attack, Vanity Fair and The Shakespeare Connection http://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2008/08/02/the-anthrax-attack-vanity-fair-and-the-shakespeare-connection/ Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cogito Ergo Doleo http://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2008/08/02/the-anthrax-attack-vanity-fair-and-the-shakespeare-connection/#comment-1480 Cogito Ergo Doleo Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:13:17 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2008/08/02/the-anthrax-attack-vanity-fair-and-the-shakespeare-connection/#comment-1480 "Perfectly illustrated the perils of Shakeseare intoxication." Okay. Uncle. Or, dare I suggest you are most perfectly illustrating the perils of writing such a statement while proving your point that one so intoxicated ought not write such a statement? What, exactly, though, *is* "Shakeseare intoxication?" Is it an archaic form of Seer DTs with the disfortunate side-effect that one forgets how to spell the name of the Bard or, perhaps, one roasts his prophetic abilities? J/funnin' ya. Loved your book; and, from reading it, know you will appreciate the — ahem — good Will upon which my ribbing is based; that is, I am simply demonstrating the logical fallacy of taking "forensic linguistics" to its extremist exitstream. -- "Prithee do not turn me about, my stomach is not constant." — What's His Name “Perfectly illustrated the perils of Shakeseare intoxication.”

Okay. Uncle. Or, dare I suggest you are most perfectly illustrating the perils of writing such a statement while proving your point that one so intoxicated ought not write such a statement? What, exactly, though, *is* “Shakeseare intoxication?” Is it an archaic form of Seer DTs with the disfortunate side-effect that one forgets how to spell the name of the Bard or, perhaps, one roasts his prophetic abilities?

J/funnin’ ya. Loved your book; and, from reading it, know you will appreciate the — ahem — good Will upon which my ribbing is based; that is, I am simply demonstrating the logical fallacy of taking “forensic linguistics” to its extremist exitstream.
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“Prithee do not turn me about, my stomach is not constant.”
— What’s His Name

]]> By: Josh http://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2008/08/02/the-anthrax-attack-vanity-fair-and-the-shakespeare-connection/#comment-1473 Josh Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:01:00 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2008/08/02/the-anthrax-attack-vanity-fair-and-the-shakespeare-connection/#comment-1473 I rolled my eyes when I saw Foster's name being brought up in this story, because I became familiar with his methods through your book. But what really makes my stomach turn is how desperate the FBI is to pin the entire operation on one dead guy, when it stretches credibility sooooooo much to make all of the leaps that they are just to have their case shut. It turns the stomach, because the real culprits are still out there.... I rolled my eyes when I saw Foster’s name being brought up in this story, because I became familiar with his methods through your book.

But what really makes my stomach turn is how desperate the FBI is to pin the entire operation on one dead guy, when it stretches credibility sooooooo much to make all of the leaps that they are just to have their case shut.

It turns the stomach, because the real culprits are still out there….

]]> By: charlie finch http://pjmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2008/08/02/the-anthrax-attack-vanity-fair-and-the-shakespeare-connection/#comment-1388 charlie finch Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:43:33 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2008/08/02/the-anthrax-attack-vanity-fair-and-the-shakespeare-connection/#comment-1388 Re: the gullibility of "Vanity Fair" and Conde Nast, in last month's "VF", Kurt Andersen thinks the Olympics architecture (such as Herzog & DeMeuron's Bird's Nest Stadium) justifies Chinese oppression and, in this week's "New Yorker", David Remnick writes a long hymn to Chinese pianist Lang Lang while glossing over China's Fascist reality. Then, in Saturday's "Times", there is a cynical "on the one hand, on the other hand" piece on the status of "freedom" in China, which, among other logical atrocities, cites the recent Pew Poll that "84% of the Chinese people are satisfied". Note that the sample of this poll is 3,212 in a nation of 1.3 billion people! This is a dangerous dovetailing between smug Western intellectual elites and the Chinese Communist elites, a combined self-interest of material comfort, entitlement and meritocratic narcissism. This dangerous combo puts a chokehold on the flow of information and the realization of freedom for the rest of us. Re: the gullibility of “Vanity Fair” and Conde Nast, in last month’s “VF”, Kurt Andersen thinks the Olympics architecture (such as Herzog & DeMeuron’s Bird’s Nest Stadium) justifies Chinese oppression and, in this week’s “New Yorker”, David Remnick writes a long hymn to Chinese pianist Lang Lang while glossing over China’s Fascist reality. Then, in Saturday’s “Times”, there is a cynical “on the one hand, on the other hand” piece on the status of “freedom” in China, which, among other logical atrocities, cites the recent Pew Poll that “84% of the Chinese people are satisfied”. Note that the sample of this poll is 3,212 in a nation of 1.3 billion people! This is a dangerous dovetailing between smug Western intellectual elites and the Chinese Communist elites, a combined self-interest of material comfort, entitlement and meritocratic narcissism. This dangerous combo puts a chokehold on the flow of information and the realization of freedom for the rest of us.

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