Incestuous post by Den Beste or incestuous Post by Reynolds or Incestuous Post by Hesiod
Who is the biggest turd in the punch bowl? I don’t care. As Josh Marshall points out this is a bit ridiculous.
I was tempted to include the original post by RR, but I figured one post on the subject was about right. Let’s be real here and admit one vanity web site refusing to link to a another vanity site that links to a third vanity web site is not worth the bandwidth being devoted to it. So why am I? I find this one hysterical. At least it is providing humor.
However, there are some great lines that should make anyone laugh who has noticed the habit of bloggers taking themselves too seriously:
SDB: Initial examination of RR’s site instantly conveys an unmistakable pomposity anyway.
SDB: Of course, there are always people who take themselves too seriously and who think they are more important than they truly are. And an unfortunately large number of those are on the political left, where there is a rising horror at the way that we bloodthirsty rabid warbloggers are perverting their medium to deliver the wrong message.
SDB: This strikes me as a beautiful example modern leftist activity: it’s public, it’s in-your-face, it demonstrates moral and ideological purity, and it will have negligible practical effect. It’s pragmatically null. It’s a tempest in a teapot.
SDB: The material posted on the site equally projects an impression that the author is rather full of himself. One example is the following entry, quoted in its entirety:
It is fortunate that RR’s gesture is empty and meaningless because if it were actually effective it would be a serious threat to freedom of expression."
Hesiod caugth the Den Beste disease of writing a long, boring article that could have been done in two paragraphs. What up with that?
Another advantage of blogging is that it produces real time satire, that isn’t satire.