A Genuine, Warranted Snark

[elfs]

As an aside to the previous post, Jeffery Tooby, while discussing the general effeteness and inadequancy of "blue state," "European" men, added in his question to Pinker:

Dennis Miller has the line that we have our pet medications Federal Expressed to our front doors, and al-Qaeda looks at that, and thinks, we can take those guys.

Dennis Miller? Dennis Miller? Have you even heard a recent broadcast of Dennis Miller? Without his HBO passel of writers, the man is as funny as a toothache and as insightful as a zombie. There's a reason he's on Clownhall Radio in the deathly unlistened-to hours of noon to three.

I guess Tooby doesn't have much to do in the middle of the day.

What the hell is it with these quasi-intellectuals who suddenly find themselves parroting the very worst talking points of the conservative movement? Tooby right's up there with Mamet, getting some bizarre frission by imagining himself with a knife gripped in his teeth as he defends the West against slathering brown-skinned hordes. Tooby's questions to Pinker come from deep within the epistemic closure, and are seeking only validation of answers Tooby already has.