Comments on CADRE Comments: Not a Review of a Review of Religuous. Maybe! Or, ...

Sure it is; but I prefer to use the term in refere...

2008-10-14T05:00:00.000-07:00

Sure it is; but I prefer to use the term in reference to things that are actually, y'know, random.

{g}

JRP

(hint: the g inside those fancy brackets isn't random... see rabbinic principle #2328 above in the original post. That number was randomly generated, btw, though for humor's sake I'm pretending it wasn't.)

The word "random" isn't a part of your vocabulary,...

2008-10-14T02:23:00.000-07:00

The word "random" isn't a part of your vocabulary, is it?

Random letters such as 's' (for smile), 'g' (for g...

2008-10-13T10:03:00.000-07:00

Random letters such as 's' (for smile), 'g' (for grin), both of which have long been standard emoticon abbreviations; and 'rimshot' which stands for 'rimshot'.

I use curly brackets now as a uniform habit, because some systems treat square brackets as coding signals and other systems (like this one in Blogger) treat greater/less-than signs as html signals. Curly brackets are, for the most

No, you have not made use of emoticons (at least, ...

2008-10-13T08:50:00.000-07:00

No, you have not made use of emoticons (at least, I have not seen you make use of emoticons). Random letters crammed inside curly-brackets do not constitute an emoticon.

Yes, Gol, all the meaning is in the emoticons. Ign...

2008-10-13T05:16:00.000-07:00

Yes, Gol, all the meaning is in the emoticons. Ignore everything between the emoticons; those other letters are merely random plonking I did on the keyboard to distract people from the weakness of the argument I was making in the meanings of the emoticons. Of course, those meanings are only accessible to Christians who have reached at least the 66th rank of my particular theological Order, which

{asdlfkbz;lu/;}{guralcug}{s}Is this what passes fo...

2008-10-12T10:23:00.000-07:00

{asdlfkbz;lu/;}{guralcug}{s}

Is this what passes for intelligent conversation amongst you people?

Actually, my point was rather more boring than tha...

2008-10-09T19:38:00.000-07:00

Actually, my point was rather more boring than that, Gol. {g} I'm interested in studying and learning from the critical disjunction of the review as an object lesson; and/or perhaps as evidence that something else was going on in the review than was evident on the surface.

I can only speculate about the latter possibilities, but I tried to come up with some speculative options that were

Fair?! Who said life was fair?Suck it up.

2008-10-09T16:09:00.000-07:00

Fair?! Who said life was fair?

Suck it up.

One of these days, I'm going to learn how to spell...

2008-10-09T12:13:00.000-07:00

One of these days, I'm going to learn how to spell Maher. I DID IT!!!!

JRP,Keith Olbermann is a left-leaning political co...

2008-10-09T11:55:00.000-07:00

JRP,

Keith Olbermann is a left-leaning political commenter on MSNBC who (as near as I can tell) shares Mahrer's views.

But I just saw that Dr. Craig Hazen has written a review of the movie itself. It can be found here. Dr. Hazen

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, LG! Much apprecia...

2008-10-09T10:51:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, LG! Much appreciated! AAC was a movie that my Mom and I both thought we'd find hilarious based on the trailers, but the more I hear and think about it, the less I care for actually watching it. I expect I'll find it annoying more than funny--I have a very high regard for some political liberals and so I can be sensitive to attacks in their direction. But at least

Having heard more than enough from Mr. Mahrer's vi...

2008-10-09T10:09:00.000-07:00

Having heard more than enough from Mr. Mahrer's views over the years, I have no doubt that Category B will be the main theme and content of the movie. I believe that this effort to use Category A language and make Mahrer sound fair is quite probably disingenuous.

I wonder if Owen Gleiberman is a psudonym for Keith Olbermann.

That's a REALLY complicated question, and I'm not ...

2008-10-09T07:59:00.000-07:00

That's a REALLY complicated question, and I'm not sure exactly how to answer it except to reflect a little bit on my response to similar movies.

I loved "Sicko" and "Bowling for Columbine" which attacked "the bad guys" as I see it, but I found the way some of the material was presented deeply disturbing-- basically, I thought some parts were highly manipulative propaganda. I appreciated

Just a marker for comment tracking.JRP

2008-10-09T06:21:00.000-07:00

Just a marker for comment tracking.

JRP