[lbo-talk] Re: FW: My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong On Chomsky (from ZNet)

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 25 09:20:47 PDT 2003


Herman resembles a pit bull on steriods, confined to a cage in hundred degree weather and being taunted by a kid with a bone.

Doesn't this guy have a life? Where does he even get the time to churn out this crap?

--- Thiago Oppermann <thiago_oppermann at bigpond.com> wrote:
> On 26/7/2003 1:42 AM,
> "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org"
> <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:
>
> > Mark Pavlick (quoting E. Herman) wrote:
> >
>
> How seriously is Herman taken anyway? He's a bit of
> a nutter, no? The points
> on de Long's appreciation of Chomsky seem...
> tortuous, maybe obsessive to
> the point of being more than a little
> self-defeating. Rather like the text
> it criticizes, in my opinion. Some things are just
> so silly they don't merit
> reply but Herman seems to make a career out of
> replying to precisely these.
> That's definitely the case with Brad's little hissy
> fit about the old
> Chomp... why not let it slip? It was way overblown
> and really wasn't going
> to convince anyone who wasn't already convinced - a
> sub-scholarly effort.
> But now that looks like a sterling performance next
> to Herman's depraved
> rambling. Pox all around, I am afraid.
>
> Thiago
>
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