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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:27 AM Original message |
WTF? Christopher Hitchens is World's 5th Greatest Intellectual? |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. misprint. They meant 5th Rate. |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 01:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
33. Touche! |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
2. Wow. 5th Greatest Intellectual. That and $2 will get you on the subway. NT |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. You can be an intellectual and still not make any worthwhile sense. |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. This list is BS, biased heavily in favor of politics/economics with |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
5. That's kind of a glass-half-empty response, though, isn't it? |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Conservatives, by definition, cant be intellectuals, cause they stagnate. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
6. Paul Wolfowitz at number 19? |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
8. Shouldn't that read 5th greates drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay? |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:08 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. yes. |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:09 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. LMAO . . . No, I wasn't aware of that fact. I was aware that he had |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:30 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. It's true. |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:11 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Galloway has it easier 'cause the left has better ideas to work with |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. in my opinion Galloway and Hitchens make a great pair |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
9. "Public intellectuals" are strange birds to begin with -- |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. He excludes those with other careers that overshadows intellectual |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:19 AM Response to Reply #11 |
24. I don't disagree that those that "do" often |
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neoteric lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. The Pope is above Daniel C. Dennett! OK, this is totally |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
12. Well, you have to be quite intelligent in order to... |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:58 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Shrub is an intellectual? |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
13. Who's #6? Ted Nugent? n/t |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
30. Paul Krugman, actually (n/t) |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
14. he is rarely the 5th greatest intellectual in any room he is in |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:59 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I want to put him in a room with Alan Moore. See who walks out alive. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
17. Hitchens is like a drunk Dennis Miller |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:04 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. damn that's cold. |
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funflower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
18. Who made up the list of candidates, and where are the women? |
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tomg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
19. David Herman's analysis of |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:24 AM Original message |
laughing, rolling on floor trying to keep my ass on |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
25. That guarantees Galloway a place no lower than 4th. |
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William Bloode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
26. 5th greatest drunk, or |
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Orrin_73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
29. Beg to differ |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
31. What part of "internet poll" don't you understand? |
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RethugAssKicker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-05 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
32. Is Cornell West on it? |
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