# Pitting the parents of Jonathan Krohn. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218 "2010-02-24T02:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/41 "2010-02-26T18:24:09Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > As I strongly suspected, Master Krohn is (at least since 2007, according to his Wikipedia hagiography) [home-schooled](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Krohn). I was going to post “This kid gets beat up in school a lot. I know this for a fact,” but then I saw your post which, well… never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/42 "2010-02-26T18:26:49Z")
“Wikipedia hagiography” - heh. I’m sitting here snorting out loud (snoling?). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/43 "2010-02-26T18:41:57Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I was going to post “This kid gets beat up in school a lot. I know this for a fact,” but then I saw your post which, well… never mind. Considerably more disturbing is the distinct possibility that M. Krohn is, at this very moment (assuming he’s not roiling rubes at a Tea Party or coiled at Rush Limbaugh’s slippered feet, contentedly grooming himself) somewhere within three or four miles of where I sit. If only reality could be altered as easily as a Wikipedia page. ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/44 "2010-02-26T18:52:27Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > I would say that he comes across as extremely smug and condescending, which is offensive coming from a 14-year-old. He seems smart enough to be capable of more self-awareness. If this is merely a persona he is adopting to sell books, I still find it offensive. He could be writing books and speaking about them, even at the same venues, without cultivating such an extreme attitude. I’ve been whooshed… :eek: “Wikipedia hagiography”? 🆒:p:D ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/45 "2010-02-26T19:00:12Z")
Fascinating is all I can say… Is there a term for such a gift of gab? I’m reminded of those pint sized preachers from the last century, who were word fierce and had a career of it at the age of 7 or 9. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/46 "2010-02-26T20:40:44Z")
Huh. He looks a lot like my cousin, who was also given to precocious punditry, although his parents didn’t inflict him on the world at large. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/47 "2010-02-27T17:29:26Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Fascinating is all I can say… > > Is there a term for such a gift of gab? Yes, they are called bullshit artists, they raise bullshitting to an art form 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dostoyevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Dostoyevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dostoyevsky)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/48 "2010-02-27T18:16:46Z")
> [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](#): > > So what have the parents of Jonathan Krohn done wrong, exactly? IMHO, they allow “this.” That’s what. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/49 "2010-02-27T18:27:36Z")
> [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](#): > > So what have the parents of Jonathan Krohn done wrong, exactly? They didn’t murder it at birth? Maybe they took pity on it and set it on a hillside somewhere, where some wandering neo cons took pity on it. Maybe next time they’ll listen when the oracle lays down a prophecy. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/50 "2010-03-01T01:45:20Z")
This kid, and everything he represents, turns my stomach. And I’d feel exactly the same way if he were a Liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/51 "2010-03-01T04:14:44Z")
I wonder if this kid is gonna drop that shit when he discovers being a blowhard pundit won’t get him laid after prom. I wish I’d known it when I was his age. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/52 "2010-03-01T04:15:32Z")
He reminds me of [Ernesto](http://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2009/12/13/) in the comic strip Cul de Sac. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/53 "2010-03-01T04:28:24Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Nothing wrong with extremism. As the late, great Aneurin Bevan told us “We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” Up there among the stupidest aphorisms I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/54 "2010-03-01T04:33:59Z")
I get terribly annoyed with people who haven’t yet entered their second decade talking resolutely about anything and lecturing adults. Even when they’re not trying to, they come off as smarmy. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/55 "2010-03-01T04:41:12Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > I get terribly annoyed with people who haven’t yet entered their second decade talking resolutely about anything and lecturing adults. Even when they’re not trying to, they come off as smarmy. I thought he has entered his second decade? He’s in his teens, right? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/56 "2010-03-01T05:02:04Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > I get terribly annoyed with people who haven’t yet entered their second decade talking resolutely about anything and lecturing adults. Even when they’re not trying to, they come off as smarmy. From what I’ve heard from him, his speeches are too content-free to be any kind of lecture. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/57 "2010-03-01T05:02:30Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Up there among the stupidest aphorisms I’ve ever heard. Ah well. Run for the middle. Compromise on everything. See where that has gotten us. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/58 "2010-03-01T07:45:21Z")
I’m not particularly criticising the principle, just the aphorism. ISTM you get “run over” being in the middle of the road if you are on foot on a road dominated by motorised traffic. And that isn’t “middle of the road” behaviour, it’s unusual behaviour. So the aphorism doesn’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/59 "2010-03-01T12:24:18Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I’m not particularly criticising the principle, just the aphorism. ISTM you get “run over” being in the middle of the road if you are on foot on a road dominated by motorised traffic. And that isn’t “middle of the road” behaviour, it’s unusual behaviour. So the aphorism doesn’t make sense. Besides the fact that cars don’t drive down the middle of the road, they drive on the left and right. So the middle of the road is the safest place to be, unless you get off the road altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218/60 "2010-03-01T14:53:18Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Nothing wrong with extremism. As the late, great Aneurin Bevan told us “We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” Try driving on the sidewalk and see where _that_ gets you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-the-parents-of-jonathan-krohn/530218.md?page=4)