The way I see it, there are two big groups of insufferable internet cranks that have come to prominence in the last few years: the STEM disciples who think anything about life outside their left-brain beep-boop bubble is worthless, and the social justice warriors who bitch and moan about all the trivial injustices that characterize daily existence. Somehow, despite the two usually being diametrically opposed, Boilermaker Rick managed to draw from both. There are people I spar with, of course, but I can deal with it: RFDC and I fight about sports on a sports board, whatever, and denisdman and I don't get along on much but that's because our brains are probably about as different as can be. I feel like most disagreements here, I can de-escalate in my mind. But the combination of that much arrogance, that much intractability, that little intellectual curiosity, I can't do anything with that except hope there's a cliff somewhere he can fall off of.

Nice post. Sports message board. This forum was back in the day. Then it evolved into who is who,who posts more and all the rest. Get back to basics and this will end. Fearless leader turned the tribe over to those who mean well but will destroy what has been for many years. Slowly the end is near as we can see from our reading. Been a nice ride but this place is turning into a slow drowning pool of murky crap. S.O.S.

Strong take, Scooter. It also happens to be pretty accurate.

The way I see it, there are two big groups of insufferable internet cranks that have come to prominence in the last few years: the STEM disciples who think anything about life outside their left-brain beep-boop bubble is worthless, and the social justice warriors who bitch and moan about all the trivial injustices that characterize daily existence. Somehow, despite the two usually being diametrically opposed, Boilermaker Rick managed to draw from both. There are people I spar with, of course, but I can deal with it: RFDC and I fight about sports on a sports board, whatever, and denisdman and I don't get along on much but that's because our brains are probably about as different as can be. I feel like most disagreements here, I can de-escalate in my mind. But the combination of that much arrogance, that much intractability, that little intellectual curiosity, I can't do anything with that except hope there's a cliff somewhere he can fall off of.

The way I see it, there are two big groups of insufferable internet cranks that have come to prominence in the last few years: the STEM disciples who think anything about life outside their left-brain beep-boop bubble is worthless, and the social justice warriors who bitch and moan about all the trivial injustices that characterize daily existence. Somehow, despite the two usually being diametrically opposed, Boilermaker Rick managed to draw from both. There are people I spar with, of course, but I can deal with it: RFDC and I fight about sports on a sports board, whatever, and denisdman and I don't get along on much but that's because our brains are probably about as different as can be. I feel like most disagreements here, I can de-escalate in my mind. But the combination of that much arrogance, that much intractability, that little intellectual curiosity, I can't do anything with that except hope there's a cliff somewhere he can fall off of.

It's more like Gordon Beckham calling Joe Morgan a bad 2nd baseman.

Not quite. CH is one of the more interesting guys here.

I would like to change my answer to "because he is a genius."

The way I see it, there are two big groups of insufferable internet cranks that have come to prominence in the last few years: the STEM disciples who think anything about life outside their left-brain beep-boop bubble is worthless, and the social justice warriors who bitch and moan about all the trivial injustices that characterize daily existence. Somehow, despite the two usually being diametrically opposed, Boilermaker Rick managed to draw from both. There are people I spar with, of course, but I can deal with it: RFDC and I fight about sports on a sports board, whatever, and denisdman and I don't get along on much but that's because our brains are probably about as different as can be. I feel like most disagreements here, I can de-escalate in my mind. But the combination of that much arrogance, that much intractability, that little intellectual curiosity, I can't do anything with that except hope there's a cliff somewhere he can fall off of.

What was the point of this post? It sounds like you want to threaten CH, but you're hiding behind some typical Clintonian doublespeak.

What was the point of this post? It sounds like you want to threaten CH, but you're hiding behind some typical Clintonian doublespeak.

Da Rev is getting quite the sermon!

You've been on like a 6 month crusade about how horrible I am with me pretty much just ignoring you.

I really have two choices here.
1) Finally start taking shots back
2) Ignore it and just laugh at it and hope that you get over whatever obsession you've suddenly developed for me.

With that said: Thank you for your input.

By the way, I wasn't protesting anything. I really like 2.5 of the 3 wise men. I was on a real life vacation.