— Sarge isn’t real impressed with Nick Denton (Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Briefing: March 10, 2002 – March 16, 2002 Archives):
Certain animals, when threatened, will puff themselves up in attempt to ward off predators with an impressive display of size accompanied by ominous growlings or other such threatening noises. Nick Denton is such an animal.
Read Sarge’s piece in full and you’ll see why. I have to agree with him.
Update: One of the great conceits of the left is their belief in their superior intelligence; you know a book title beginning with “Stupid…” has to come from a lefty like Michael Moore, and one ending with “… is a big fat idiot” has to come from a lefty like Al Franken. They’re overcompensating for the fact that higher-income, better-educated, and older people tend toward a more conservative point of view than others. The net result of all this sneering, attack-politics is a cheapening of political dialog.
Nick’s search for intelligent liberals on the web is going to be hard road, as is the search for intelligent liberals off the web. Oh, they exist all right — Ken Layne and Matt Welch are classical liberals, and they’re awfully bright — but the left establishment has turned so introverted and anti-American since Clinton that it turns against the classical liberal voice, with its insistence on reason, in its never-ending quest for ideological purity.
Liberals aren’t afraid to post their opinions on the web because of the Freepers, who will pretty well leave them alone, as much as the PC Police, but it’s not PC to admit it.