{"id":7466,"date":"2015-01-06T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/06\/gun-control-and-liberal-left-irrationality\/"},"modified":"2015-01-06T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T05:15:07","slug":"gun-control-and-liberal-left-irrationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/06\/gun-control-and-liberal-left-irrationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control and Liberal-Left Irrationality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quality of 'elite' publications such as The New Yorker<\/em> leaves a lot to be desired these days.  Adam Gopnik's recent outburst<\/a> on Newtown is one more example of a downward trend: it is so breathtakingly bad that I am tempted to snark: "I can't breathe!" Could Gopnik really be as willfully stupid as the author of this piece? Or perhaps he was drunk when he posted his screed one minute after midnight on January 1st.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily, I needn't waste any time disembarrassing<\/a> this leftist goofball of his fallacies and fatuosities since a professional job of it as been done by John Hinderaker<\/a> and Charles Cooke.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Again I ask myself: why is the quality of conservative commentary so vastly superior to the stuff on the Left?<\/span><\/p>\n

A tip of the hat and a Happy New Year! to Malcolm Pollack from whom I snagged the above hyperlinks.  Malcolm is a very good writer as you can see from this paragraph<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The New Yorker<\/em>\u2018s essayist Adam Gopnik \u2014 whom I have always considered to be quite lavishly talented, despite his dainty and epicene style \u2014 beclowned himself one minute into this New Year with a stupendously mawkish item on gun control. It is so bad, in fact \u2014 so completely barren of fact, rational argument, or indeed any serious intellectual effort whatsoever \u2014 that I was startled, and frankly saddened, to see it in print. It is the cognitive equivalent, if one can imagine such a thing hoisted into Mr. Gopnik\u2019s rarefied belletrist milieu<\/em>, of yelling \u201cBOSTON SUCKS\u201d at a Yankees-Red Sox game, at a time when Boston leads the division by eleven games.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Happy New Year, Happy New Gun-Control Nonsense<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quality of 'elite' publications such as The New Yorker leaves a lot to be desired these days.  Adam Gopnik's recent outburst on Newtown is one more example of a downward trend: it is so breathtakingly bad that I am tempted to snark: "I can't breathe!" Could Gopnik really be as willfully stupid as the … Continue reading “Gun Control and Liberal-Left Irrationality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,163,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-reason-and-rationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}