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The Defeatery
06/02/09

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"I am sick and tired of these motherfucking dogs on their motherfucking hind legs!"

- Samuel L. Johnson
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johnny_carsick
06/02/09

@The Defeatery: +1
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fileunder
06/02/09

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I kind of want to shove injera down his throat but wouldn't want to waste the teff.
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skahammer
06/02/09

@fileunder: Just show him the doro, wot?
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fileunder
06/02/09

@skahammer: I'll do as I see fitfit :)
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johnny_carsick
06/02/09

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i hesitate 'cos he's young, but sooner or later someone needs to slap the shit out of the little prick.
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PicklePants
06/02/09

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This guy is obviously awful, but is it also possible that he is mentally ill?
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@PicklePants: Crazy people can be bigots, too.
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resipsaloquacious
06/02/09

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He's still young, give him a break.

Who knows, in three years he may be the live-in karate instructor, African art curator and electro-ejaculator technician for a lovely gay couple in suburban Virginia.
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blix
06/02/09

@resipsaloquacious: He'll never steal my golden parachute.
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depardoo
06/02/09

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Having lost the opportunity to go to law school, I see this kid becoming Jesse Watters' assistant.
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MissNormaDesmond
06/02/09

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I don't know, though -- having now looked at the link, I'm starting to smell a hoax. It's a little too egregious. Also, why is the profile hidden and the album public?
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Claire Buoyant
06/02/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Notice the photos were all posted back in 2006. Unless some troublemaker has a time machine (like how the gays traveled back in time to force Carrie Prejean to pose topless), I think this is real.
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@Claire Buoyant: The gays and the wind. (Good name for a novel!)
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MissNormaDesmond
06/02/09

@Claire Buoyant: Ah, good catch. Well, I am old and suspicious, clearly. Sometimes people really are just that much of an asshole.
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Colonel Mustard
06/02/09

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The ghost of Empress Theodora should punch this little dipshit in the nuts.
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Lazy Susan
06/02/09

@Colonel Mustard: Oh! You had to bring up her.
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depardoo
06/02/09

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Was it Samuel Johnson or Vic Taback who said "Any guy who wears a pocket kerchief is a little light in the loafers, if you know what I mean"?
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econdave
06/02/09

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I kind of feel sorry for this kid. Obviously his head's screwed up if he's half-Jewish/half-Korean, and he decides that he's going to hang out with the anti-immigration nutjobs. Self-loathing much?

That being said, attacking a woman while yelling racial slurs at her, and (apparently) lying about it on your law school application: not cool.

Also, I expect someone admitted to UVA law school to know how to use "its" properly.
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kimsama
06/02/09

@econdave: Thank you. Anyone who can't distinguish between "it's" and "its" is not really ready for the rigors of law school.
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cdmunch
06/02/09

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Why would anyone care about this fudgepack of hate and idiocy? He looks like a pudgier Pillsbury doughboy in a suit and probably has the brains of an undercooked cookie.
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Mama Penguino
06/02/09

@cdmunch: Please don't drag soft cookies into this discussion. There are days when I love nothing so much.
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kneetoe
06/02/09

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You know what Samual Johnson said about fish in a barrel.
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Mama Penguino
06/02/09

@kneetoe: And a bird in the bush...
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@kneetoe: I don't drink water because fish fuck in it?
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kneetoe
06/02/09

@BookishLookish: Then that must preclude breathing the air as well (ever seen those dragonflies?).
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@kneetoe: I have some of those in my backyard. My son always asks what they're doing and I say, "Hitching a ride."
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kneetoe
06/02/09

@BookishLookish: My daughter watches lots of nature programs (Blue Planet etc), and there are long moments when I'm checking my nails, looking around the room, and otherwise pretending not to notice what's on. The other day it was about 15 minutes of crocodile love. Interesting stuff, if you like that kind of thing.
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@kneetoe: I do.
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ninety_nine
06/02/09

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What did Samuel Johnson say? That he was a closeted homosexual? Shouldn't there be a 'Fun with Tags' tag for this?
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The Real JR
06/02/09

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but you know what Samuel Johnson said about a Dog walking on it's hind legs.

Wait- and NO ONE called him on this picture commentary? They all went ha-ha?
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The Real JR
06/02/09

@The Real JR: I stand corrected. At least one person did.
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rockandhardPL
06/02/09

@The Real JR:I am at work and can't check facebook. What did they say. Please tell me it was something along the lines of "you ignorant sh*t thank God you weren't allowed to go to UVA because you suck at life and should eat Rove's sh*t and die." Was it something like that, more or less?
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Wrapitup
06/02/09

@rockandhardPL: Not all. It was something along the lines of "Oh Marcus" or some other such classic enabler-speak.
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Trulymadlyme
06/02/09

@Wrapitup: I imagine many, many other white people have said the same damn exact thing when someone was inappropriately racist. Ugh.
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Smitros
06/02/09

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He clearly doesn't understand Ethiopian artistic traditions or Orthodox iconographic traditions.

That's no crime, but being ignorantly dismissive is.
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Trulymadlyme
06/02/09

@Smitros: Exactly. The Sistine Chapel is, in many ways, derivative of Turkish, Islamic & Orthodox artistic traditions. Kid's an idiot.
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Claire Buoyant
06/02/09

@Smitros: You're being too kind. If you look at the captions on his other photos, you'll see that he's just an asshole.
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MissNormaDesmond
06/02/09

@Smitros: He's comparing Ethiopians to dogs. He's way beyond ignorantly dismissive.
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Mama Penguino
06/02/09

@MissNormaDesmond: He's referencing the quote, "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." I think he's not just ignorantly dismissive, but he's also a jackass who needs to be slapped with my driving gloves.
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iplaudius
06/02/09

@Smitros: He is a fucking idiot. That criticism is as anachronistic as looking at a Medieval European art and faulting the draftsmen for having no understanding of vanishing-point perspective. The racism on top of it all makes this guy a dangerous asshole.
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Smitros
06/02/09

@iplaudius:

And I wonder how well the Lega Nord would like him?
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@Claire Buoyant: Smitros is nothing if not kind, even to those undeserving of his kindness, and that is why I luurrrrve him.
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Ohcaptainmycaptain
06/02/09

@Smitros: Yeah, and when are those fuckers giiving back the Ark?
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MissNormaDesmond
06/02/09

@Mama Penguino: I recognize the quote, thanks. In this context, it makes the Ethiopian artists analogous to the dogs. I don't really think that's an unmeant association.
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Smitros
06/02/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain:

The Ark is in a Defense Department warehouse. Everybody knows that.
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Mama Penguino
06/02/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Oops, sorry. No smarter-than-thou snideness meant!
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MissNormaDesmond
06/02/09

@Mama Penguino: No, I do think it's a reasonable objection -- i.e. that he was just making use of that well-known phrase, which normally wouldn't necessarily involve comparing anyone to animals. For instance, I don't think Johnson was actually comparing the women to whom he was referring to dogs; women speaking in church was a real rarity at the time. However, when what Epstein's definitely saying is that it's amazing that Ethiopian artists are making art at all, as if they are somehow subhuman and incapable of such a thing, then yes, I think you can reasonably draw that association.
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Baroness
06/02/09

@Trulymadlyme: Exactly. The Sistine Chapel is, in many ways, derivative of Turkish, Islamic & Orthodox artistic traditions.

Really? How so? I mean this respectfully, but that's an extraordinary claim. There's no need to bash Michelangelo as "derivative" because of something some jerk said.

Islamic art forbids representation of the human figure, Orthodox iconography is static and hieratic. I can't speak of "Turkish", not sure what you mean, but if there's Turkish art superior to Michelangelo's that he would copy it, please let me know.

Michelangelo was derivative? No, he was a titan of Western art, and you seem to be condescending to that in a way that seems pat and PC.

Michelangelo's vision and talent electrified the West, his neo-pagan worship of the body, of beauty, sensuality, color, motion, ambiguity are the basis of the Western visual sense- his paintings were cinema long before it existed. Calling the Sistine Chapel frescoes "derivative" is sneering at a very great , supernatural accomplishment that changed our world in a very real sense.

Yes, I very much appreciate Islamic, Orthodox, Turkish art as well. Compared to Michelangelo they're more appropriately called "craft". Sorry, but I dislike that certain undergrad attitude towards Dead White Males, that there's aesthetic equivalence. Michelangelo was an eruptive talent, Western individuality and artistic power at maximum. Let's not sneer at that and say it's all the same.
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Mama Penguino
06/02/09

@MissNormaDesmond: God, I love you. In any event, in my haste to illustrate my intellect, I ended up looking like a fool.
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MissNormaDesmond
06/02/09

@Mama Penguino: Thank God I've never done that. Frequently.
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@Baroness: Sigh.

Here's the technique that influenced it. [en.wikipedia.org]

And here.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Sigh.
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