I’m a software guy with a penchant for football, hockey, music, current events and politics -- mostly current events and politics. Having driven several conversations to silence while discussing the latter items, it has been intimated that I should blog about it; to purge it from my system so that we may return to enjoying social events and cocktail parties. Kind of like drawing venom from a snakebite so that the body may return to health. The body, in this clumsy metaphor, is the social life of my wife:0) So, game on! I’ve got opinions and I hope to persuade and look forward, in return, to be persuaded.
Attn Mr. Godwin: someone just used your law, effectively making their argument impotent and meaningless.
C. dog e. doG
‘Cuz Danny boy likes to mindlessly follow invented “laws” he neither understands, nor wishes to understand. Play us another song on your magical pan flute, Danny boy.
– C. dog
IWKAGGP
As someone who fought and won a battle of words against a TRUE offspring of Der Fuhrer right here in the Granite State not so long ago along with my fellow Rat Patrol members, I know full well what Godwin’s law is all about. You should remember that, because you were still hangin’ round the battlefield we fought on at that time. Right Van?
C. dog e. doG
My point, Danny, is that an argument is neither proven or disproven by using the not-so-funny mustachio guy as an example. Metaphors and similes do not an equation make.
– C. dog drawing pornographic Venn diagrams to make exaggerated claims
Scott Morales
More like an expedient to avoid an argument than a law. What I wrote previously on MG still applies, “It’s an interesting little rule, but, alas, I’ve only seen it abused and substituted as an actual argument by the unthinking left when they’re confronted with the reality of where Stateism leads. It’s like an online version of squeezing your eyelids shut, cupping your ears, stamping your feet, and repeating, “Blah, blah, blah, blah,” as loudly as you can, over and over again, followed by a speedy exit and, once far enough away, downshift into a strut like you just out-debated Daniel Webster. It’s cute, just not edifying”
More like an expedient to avoid an argument than a law. What I wrote previously on MG still applies, “It’s an interesting little rule, but, alas, I’ve only seen it abused and substituted as an actual argument by the unthinking left when they’re confronted with the reality of where Stateism leads. It’s like an online version of squeezing your eyelids shut, cupping your ears, stamping your feet, and repeating, “Blah, blah, blah, blah,” as loudly as you can, over and over again, followed by a speedy exit and, once far enough away, downshift into a strut like you just out-debated Daniel Webster. It’s cute, just not edifying”
Search for “An Origin of Nonsense and Monsters” if you want to read the whole thing.
Sam Adams
Good one Scott. I thought maybe it was Frank Marshall Davis, son which is our current President, the revoluntionary Marxist. Get ‘Dreams from My Real Father” directed by Joel Gilbert on dvd
Scott Morales
Thanks, it was an accidental find but definitely interesting.
C. dog e. doG
Tricky. I guessed correctly at 1:35 into it.
– C. dog
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