11/26/2005

16 Responses to “Use the Powers!”

1. This is why its difficult to defend Prof Althouse even if you are a fan. She just can’t let it alone.

   Look at her blog today. Right now, second post from the top, she boasts about her ability to stay above the fray saying when someone says something bad about her on another blog she doesn’t even go look at it.

   Scroll down a bit and you’ll find a post where she complains that she might have linked to a blog that has a post that “depicts an act of violence against” her – but doesn’t link to it, so you are left to wonder what/who she’s talking about. Its all innuendo, and frankly she’s been misrepresenting what people say so I don’t take her word for it that anyone “depicted violence” against her.

   She owes you a link to what she’s talking about if she’s going to post about it.

   Her normal level headed blogging has been overtaken by some sort of weird impulse. Really its been going on for a while now, at least a week, and some of it I’ve found evokes embarrassment in me – for her. Honestly I am wondering if she’s had some sort of personal crisis we don’t know about that.

   Dwilkers (a1687a) — 11/27/2005 @ 4:33 am

   
   

2. Clearly Ann has not seen what is said about me in the comments section of my own blog, or she would not hesitate to employ her ‘full verbal powers.’

   John Cole (5fab56) — 11/27/2005 @ 5:50 am

   
   

3. Perhaps Miss Althouse is taking the Rush Limbaugh approach, and battling the liberals with half her brain tied behind her back, just to make it fair.

   Dana R. Pico (a9eb8b) — 11/27/2005 @ 6:52 am

   
   

4. […] Patterico apparently find this Ann Althouse statement as amusing as I did: […]

   Balloon Juice (c62e7c) — 11/27/2005 @ 8:07 am

   
   

5. I used to read Ann on a daily basis, but gave up on her and her blog last week after reading post after ridiculous post where she’s shaping herself into being mean-spirited, self-important, and something of a blogosphere fruitcake. And it’s been going on much longer than a week, as Dwilkers stated.

   Ann is tough to appreciate any longer, and I, for one, have been pushed away by her tasteless and classless positions against Cole/Goldstein and OSM. I have my own concerns and critiques of how OSM has been handled, but for Ann it has become something very personal, and that issue is only a micro example of the larger problem with her blog of late. It’s no longer a pleasure to read her any more.

   Brian (e9ceef) — 11/27/2005 @ 8:42 am

   
   

6. Who is Ann Althouse?

   antimedia (208d00) — 11/27/2005 @ 12:38 pm

   
   

7. Ann Althouse is losing it. I think she just needs to go outside for a minute and breathe deep.

   QuickRob (02b763) — 11/27/2005 @ 6:35 pm

   
   

8. She needs a break. I detest Atrios, and I wound up taking his side in the Althouse-Atrios scrap because Althouse’s position (basically, that Atrios is responsible for his commenters, and why oh why aren’t the feminists I make fun of coming to my rescue) was so ludicrous.

   Les Jones (514bb2) — 11/28/2005 @ 7:51 am

   
   

9. I have this theory that every single person one encounters on the Internet is much smarter in real life. Especially with bloggers (no offense to the host). This applies with special force to law professors–even Posner isn’t world class when it comes to blogging.

   Not sure what that says about the Internet.

   Geek, Esq. (5dd2be) — 11/28/2005 @ 8:09 am

   
   

10. I think it just means we communicate more effectively in person than we do in cold dead text Geek.

    You can always toss in a quick clarification in person, or communicate with a wink or a smile. On a blog though what you say is what you said once you’ve said it. :p

    I imagine this is way difficult for someone (like our host) that puts their stuff on the front page every day.

    That’s why I wish Ann would just cool out on it for a bit.

    Dwilkers (a1687a) — 11/28/2005 @ 8:23 am

    
    

11. Using an economics model, I would also posit that people tend to invest less thought and effort into materials that would be reviewed by peers, for instance. For instance, the Glennuendo that one reads at Instapundit is several leagues below the worst exam paper Glenn Reynolds wrote at Yale.

    Also, in person encounters tend to encourage a greater expenditure of respect, civility, and discretion than do the sometimes anonymous and always impersonal Internet arena.

    Althouse talking like Victor von Doom in person would be taken with a laugh. On the Internet, it just seems . . . lame.

    Geek, Esq. (5dd2be) — 11/28/2005 @ 8:37 am

    
    

12. Similarly, a post in a blog’s comments section may contain the use of “for instance” in two consective sentences, an egregious stylistic transgression.

    Geek, Esq. (5dd2be) — 11/28/2005 @ 8:47 am

    
    

13. The Geekster said:

    I have this theory that every single person one encounters on the Internet is much smarter in real life. Especially with bloggers (no offense to the host). This applies with special force to law professors–even Posner isn’t world class when it comes to blogging.

    Not sure what that says about the Internet.

    I’m also much better looking in person.

    Dana R. Pico (3e4784) — 11/28/2005 @ 1:22 pm

    
    

14. I gave up on Ann Althouse a very long time ago. Instapundit sent her traffic, who knows why, but by and large she is a waste of cyberspace.

    nk (131c46) — 11/28/2005 @ 6:01 pm

    
    

15. What I want to know is how many powers are we talking about here – obviously there are more than just one since Ann’s referring to them in the plural… but beyond that I’m at a loss – are there two verbal powers? Three? Eight? What about non-verbal powers?

    Scott (57c0cc) — 11/29/2005 @ 6:28 am

    
    

16. Dwilkers-

    Her normal level headed blogging has been overtaken by some sort of weird impulse. Really its been going on for a while now, at least a week, and some of it I’ve found evokes embarrassment in me – for her. Honestly I am wondering if she’s had some sort of personal crisis we don’t know about that.

    I think she may have been spending too much time visiting this site.

    Scott (57c0cc) — 11/29/2005 @ 6:33 am