tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post110854677614223239..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Easterbrook Gets CrazierPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1108746246776155972005-02-18T09:04:00.000-08:002005-02-18T09:04:00.000-08:00No follow-up, thank heavens. I think Easterbrook t...No follow-up, thank heavens. I think Easterbrook talks only to God and himself. I'm sure my critique wouldn't trouble him even if he deigned to read it. As a general rule of thumb, writing like Easterbrook's is symptomatic of...well, let's just say "disordered thinking." His pieces betray so much monomania and pathological dishonesty...I really doubt he's emotionally capable of <I>understanding</I> criticisms like mine, let alone intellectually capable of responding to them in any meaningful way.<br /><br />I've never seen his sports writing, but it sounds like he should've stuck with that.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1108742023802644212005-02-18T07:53:00.000-08:002005-02-18T07:53:00.000-08:00Wow. Have you heard any follow up on this? That ...Wow. Have you heard any follow up on this? That is, in these days of blogs and the Fray and so many other forums, has Easterbrook responded to any criticisms such as yours?<br /><br />Unlikely, I know -- he hasn't slowed down (and indeed, seems crazier like you say) since Ehrlich & Ehrlich's (1997?) book, "The Betrayal of Science and Reason," which took him to very pointed task on a bunch of his insanist rants. (Not that Paul Ehrlich, noted ecologist, et al. aren't given, in my mind, to sometimes too far-readching claims, but in this book his claims seemed modest, fact checked, and solid.)<br /><br />When I first read Easterbrook, it was on Slate on his Tuesday Morning Quarterback column. It was a GREAT column. If only, like I had thought at the time, he was only a sports journalist...Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10444952585830773530noreply@blogger.com