tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post3973802104595991836..comments2024-02-10T20:49:20.762-05:00Comments on bjkeefe: A Golf Clap for James Poulosbjkeefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-63946244846893572692010-09-21T11:57:48.903-04:002010-09-21T11:57:48.903-04:00Oh yeah. And of course it had to come about three...Oh yeah. And of course it had to come about three seconds after I had just finished praising Poulos, didn't it? ;)<br /><br />In all seriousness, though, I am not dissuaded from labeling JP a reasonable conservative merely because he has <em>some</em> strange views. It's also fair to say (and not to my credit) that if I had only read his post, and not Roy's brilliant dissection of it, I probably wouldn't have thought it was as whacked as Roy showed it was. Instead, I probably would have MEGOed and written it off as "Meh, another Catholic boy has some warped views about teh sexytime," and would have either not read it closely, or would have abandoned it before the end. You know, kind of like I do with Ross Douthat when he goes off on the same subject.<br /><br />I haven't followed Poulos enough to be familiar with the other examples Roy gives of his hangups, but I have read enough of his views on other things to see him as someone worth paying attention to -- I may not always agree with him, but it's not just the same old talking points, and he doesn't have the standard childish wingnut black/white, left-bad/right-good, with-us-or-against-us way of looking at the world. If nothing else, he'll from time to time cause me to stretch my brain a bit, and I can't ask for anything more than that.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-69409709665763220332010-09-20T22:45:21.287-04:002010-09-20T22:45:21.287-04:00Did you see Edroso's recent post on post on Po...Did you see Edroso's <a href="http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2010_09_12_archive.html#451040463909565741" rel="nofollow">recent post</a> on post on Poulos? <br /><br />I've never followed Poulos, so it was a surprise to me.Twinnoreply@blogger.com