A plan comes together. I need a cigar.

[elfs]

Ms. Althouse actually responded in my blog that my recollection of an incident that happened last December at a Liberty Fund dinner, and she's correct; I did overstate her reaction. You can read Ron Bailey's account as well as Ms. Althouse's response to that account to get a truer picture. I apologize for any misrepresentation.

The thing that strikes me most obviously is that Althouse hunted down this blog to make her point. Which makes the point I made last December:

What gets me most, though, is in reading Althouse's second response, I had the curious feeling I had read this before. Often. Too often. On Usenet. Because Althouse has reached the stage in a Usenet writer's life where she just can't let things go. She has to refute, point by point, line by line, sentence by sentence, everything Ron [Bailey] said, repeating herself over and over because she thinks we didn't get it the first time.

Ms. Althouse is an object lesson every aging Usenetter has learned at one point in his or her life: people will say stuff about you, and you just have to let it go. Life is too important to waste on this kind of stuff.

Never has that been more true than now. I have a readership that is below a thousand people: you guys are friends and family. She's now trolling through technorati and google for her name, trying to sustain the frission of argument.

I appreciate her trying to set the record straight, but really, coming to this blog to do it is just a waste of time, especially for an "A-list blogger" and law professor. Even one who's also a self-described diva.

Comments

[slutdiary.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had no idea who she is or why I should care.

I read all the links.

I still don't care about who she is and could care less about her pseudointellectual virtual masturbation. There is a certain breed of college professor, such as she, who is just disconnected from real people living real lives. She simply appears to be a bit more driven and vain than the rest of her ilk.

[fallenpegasus]

In her description of what happened and of what she thought, she actually comes off worse than what Bailey described. She seems completely unable to think or speak abstractly, or to think something thru. She screams "racism" and "discrimination" like they were magic words, and that any questioning of the schemes that were mandated with the claimed purpose of fighting those evils could only come from either racists, or from people who didn't care about "the real world".

And yeah, it's too much like USENET.

[solarbird]

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

For the love of all that you hold dear, Elf, please don't feed the troll!!!

She probably didn't come looking

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

She probably just uses Google Alerts or some equivalent service. I do. If someone mentions me on a page Google indexes, I hear about it within a day. To achieve the same result in 1990, one would have had to hire a newspaper clipping service for some staggering amount of money. Today, it takes about a minute on http://www.google.com/alerts and it's free. I mentioned this technology to my parents and they reacted as if it was magic. Your kids, on the other hand, will take it for granted.

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