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August 25, 2007
RT II: Brilliance vs. douchebaggery
Liveblogging the keynote address by Dave Zirin, author of Welcome to the Terrordome, would be about as impossible as trying to liveblog Dennis Miller (before Dennis Miller sucked). It was a fast, hilarious, informative, impassioned rant about what he calls the Athletic Industrial Complex. I bought the book; when I get a chance to read it I'll probably have more to say about his ideas. Hopefully the video will make it onto the web; Zirin's a sharp and funny guy.
The only real downside was the douchebag who stood up and said, essentially, that all New Orleans bloggers are solely focused on "crime hysteria" and trying to whip up a frenzy of threatening Eddie Jordan's job so that he'll lock up more young black men, while ignoring the root causes of crime such as housing and education. I'm wondering what kind of blog filter he sets up that only lets him see the blogs that support his thesis. Nobody talks about housing and education? Sweet Jeebus, man.
Oh well. Ideological assclowns with verbal duckshot blasts are usually pretty harmless.
Posted by ray at August 25, 2007 2:29 PM | Permalink
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Took some balls to do that with folks like you and Karen in the room, no? Clearly he doesn't read these blogs. Dangerblond threw is free-loading ass out. Heh heh.
Posted by: Sophmom at August 25, 2007 3:02 PM
Sometimes an imbalance in the ego/comprehension ratio can be mistaken for balls. Thus is a douchebag born.
Posted by: Ray at August 25, 2007 3:18 PM
Heh... when I took Dave over to Parkway for a roast beef po' boy, he asked me about that guy. I kinda politely said that just 'cause people are getting angry and active doesn't mean they all have the same ideas...and some of those ideas are really REALLY far out.
I did say that FYYFF is okay, though... 8-)
Posted by: liprap at August 25, 2007 7:21 PM
What's a good old activist conference without the requisite Marxists and Communists agitating?
Posted by: swampwoman at August 25, 2007 9:34 PM
Clay has a great post w/ pics of DB throwing the bum out.
Posted by: Sophmom at August 26, 2007 12:21 PM
I'd love to see that douchebag try to convert one of his comrades with a 9 mm.
Posted by: Schroeder at August 27, 2007 11:55 AM
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