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Samizdata

I've periodically read articles on Samizdata, but never actually mustered up the energy to link there. But this morning I stumbled across a permalink to their glossary for the entry "anti-idiotarian" and just had to link. The definition is as follows:

"noun. Someone opposed to a whole raft of political values which are derived from a fundamentally irrational meta-context (world view). Anti-idiotarians can be found across a wide section of the political spectrum and are primarily characterised by vocal rational judgmentalism, generally hawkish sentiments and transcendent loathing of Noam Chomsky.

(coined by Charles Johnson)

Usage: "Like most anti-idiotarians I cannot but marvel as the sight of the Palestinian leadership forming yet another circular firing squad at the first grudging sign of reasonable behaviour by the Israeli government"
- Perry de Havilland."

Any site that uses the phrase "transcendent loathing of Noam Chomsky" is automatically okay in my book. The netheads at Samizdata are a generally free-market, generally individualistic, self-consciously partisan, and occasionally silly bunch. They are great supporters of the memehack, and if I could find some way of getting this on my main page I would do it immediately. They are also apparently fans of hippopotami, though I admit that I am not among those "in the know".

The main blog has great stuff like this and this. Read.

Posted by ryan at July 14, 2004 07:42 AM | TrackBack