A Series of Tubes

Meth will mess you up:

I clicked through all the photos from the drugfree.org site with a sort of morbid fascination.  I managed to click to the website off of the Matt Taibbi blog post about religious apologist Terry Eagleton.  It was sort of a non-sequitur from religion to drugs (and now I’m going to do the same but in reverse order).  Fun quote from the blog post:

“This is the kind of stuff that permeates Eagleton’s work: a lot of masturbatory semantics and naked goalpost-moving buried in great gnarled masses of old-world sneering and unnecessary syllables.”

Matt mixes serious arguments, which help prove his point, with ad hominem attacks, which make it fun to read.  Of course Matt might be mad at my use of ad hominem considering his dislike of A priori:

“First of all, why is that no professor alive can make it ten feet from his front door without sticking an a priori into a sentence? Is there some kind of subterranean lair where academics are beaten with whips and clubs until they learn to write alliterative book titles (”Pus, Primates, and Pessimism: Jane Goodall’s Descent into Septic Shock”) and lard up perfectly good sentences with epistemological catch-phrases?”