Saturday, January 20, 2007
The most brutal "top 50" list you'll ever read
If you can step out of your own values, political preferences and personal loyalties and just appreciate the sheer heaping of scorn as an art form, it is hard to beat The Beast's annual list of the "50 Most Loathsome People in America." Yes, Virginia, he does use bad words.
13 Comments:
By 
Tom the Redhunter, at
Sat Jan 20, 02:08:00 PM:
"If you can step out of your own values"
No, if you can step out of any values.
That has to be the single most stupid list I've seen.
By 
, at
Sat Jan 20, 03:31:00 PM:
That was hilarious! Brutal: absolutely. Stupid: definitely not. This list is not for the squeamish.
By lugh lampfhota, at
Sat Jan 20, 05:25:00 PM:
And we wonder why 200 million Islamists want to kill us? After reading the Beast's nihilistic 'most loathsome list' I almost have to agree with the Islamists. It's never a good idea to undermine your culture when the barbarians are at the gate...unless...we are actually in Hell!
By , at
Sat Jan 20, 05:51:00 PM:
That is the ugliest and most revolting thing I have ever seen posted on your blog. Makes me do a double take wondering what is going on with you.
By allen, at
Sat Jan 20, 06:37:00 PM:
O/T
Oak Leaf is paying tribute to Denny Doherty of the Mamas and Papas. La Mano has linked to a couple of their greatest hits in the comment section. Nostagia has its place.
California Dreamin
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Jan 20, 08:30:00 PM:
Anonymous "ugliest and most revolting":
I'm genuinely sorry to offend. I do have a taste for very harsh humor (stand-up comedy of the grossest sort, for example), and I sort of put this in that category. To my way of looking at things, though, I linked without quoting, which is a little different than putting it "on" the blog. Again, sorry to offend -- I'll try to provide a more explicit warning in the future.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sat Jan 20, 09:53:00 PM:
Maybe it's just me, but I wasn't offended so much as just bored. It may just be my politics, but I suspect if it ran the other way I would have only liked it 10% better.
It must have just caught you at an odd moment, TH.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Sat Jan 20, 10:03:00 PM:
Subj: The Beast's comment that Jesus Christ "may not have existed"
According to a Japanese legend, Jesus escaped from Jerusalem and went to Aomori in Japan, where he became a rice farmer.
By , at
Sat Jan 20, 10:41:00 PM:
Don't listen to these "sniveling sitzpinklers," TH. The list is hilarious, and a major step up in the usual level of political discourse these days. Loved it.
By Buce, at
Sun Jan 21, 05:37:00 PM:
"And we wonder why 200 million Islamists want to kill us?"
Shouldn't that be "200 million Islamists and Dinesh d'Souza"?
By , at
Mon Jan 22, 04:25:00 PM:
"It may just be my politics" - understatement of the year. You can dish it out, AVI, but you can't take it.
Kudos to you, TH.
Oh hey btw - TH, are you ever going to do another "Carnival of the Commies" type feature? The last one you did was so insightful that it was actually what got me started reading your blog regularly. It was a while ago, though, and I keep hoping for more of that kind of thing.
By TigerHawk, at
Mon Jan 22, 06:02:00 PM:
I may do a "Carnival of the Commies" if we get an issue that seems to call out for it. I still like reading the relatively thoughtful lefty blogs -- Ezra Klein is my current favorite, and I get over there several times a week (and occasionally even comments).
By ScurvyOaks, at
Tue Jan 23, 04:22:00 PM:
The drawings were great, and a lot of it was very funny, in the way that unbelievably harsh stuff can be. (See, e.g., the commentary on the extension of Ann Coulter's neck.)
