In Agreement with Scary People

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It's always terrifying when scary people say things that one agrees with, such as Ann Coulter saying that Harriet Miers is "so unqualified for a spot on the Supreme Court that Bush may as well have appointed his chauffeur as the next head of NASA. " or Orson Scott Card praising Serenity thoroughly, intelligently and for the right reasons.

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[arib.livejournal.com]

It used to be that whenever I found myself agreeing with Jeff Jacoby, I'd have to pause and check my assumptions.

Whenever I find myself disagreeing with Jeff Jacoby, I walk up to him in shul, shake his hand and say "Good Shabbos, Jeff. By the way, WTF?!" :-)

(He's a friend of my dad's, and helped me earn the journalism merit badge when I was in the boy scouts.)

[cheshyre]

Whenever I find myself disagreeing with Jeff Jacoby, I walk up to him in shul, shake his hand and say "Good Shabbos, Jeff. By the way, WTF?!" :-)

Didn't he get tired of hearing that every time he wrote a column? :D

[Honestly, aside from his columns on Israel and his open letters to his son, I regularly found factual or logical errors in his writings. A friend who worked at GE Aircraft engines once posted one of his columns on fuel efficiency (don't remember whether this was about hybrids or what) and engineers just started circling all the misteaks.

May be a nice guy personally, but I can't help wondering why he's at the Globe.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Because he got tired of working at the Herald, and the Globe wants to pretend that they're balanced by having a lone dissenting voice.