He’s the “alternative medicine guru” who claims he has all sorts of evidence coming any second now but never quite gets around to it so he just uses cute little stories instead and then complains when people point this out. He also wrote the intro to Uri Geller’s newest book (which should right there be enough to get him on the list).
Got another one: Michael Hyatt – the author who wrote The Millenium Bug and tried to scare people into thinking Y2K would be practically the end of civilization.
Kathy Lee Gifford - ON THE LIST
Regis Philbin - ON THE LIST (for both his shows!)
Michael Hyatt - ON THE LIST
We already have Jerry Falwell and Oral Roberts engraved with their personal names; if we just add “and the other televangelists” it may seem to mark out JF and OR as the worst. We should name each in their own right.
APB-- Gloria Allred is an attorney that is a very vocal proponent of women’s rights…an admirable vocation.
Her means, however, are such that, even when I agree with her basic premises, the way she advocates is so confrontational and whiny it’s like listening to fingernails on a blackboard.
I can’t remember who it was (Pamela Lee?) who said, when asked by Ms Allred if she could offer her services in a spousal abuse case, “Get off my side.”
Add these:
Programming directors who pre-empt regular programming–like we really need to sit there while news commentators, having no specific information to pass on, chat with each other and stammer–which you should never do unless you are Mell Tillis, Bedrich Smetana or Porky Pig.
Ad copy-writers who think we consider a “victim” in a commercial (Got Milk?, etc.) staring blankly into the camera to be funny.
Neighbors who allow their dogs to bark all night–and poop in someone else’s yard. (I would have a good mind to pick it up with my shovel and fling it at the dog’s owner the next time I see him.)
Mental midgets who pop onto Chat lines long enough to post ads for porno websites–then leave immediately.
People in authority who act as if they are drill sergeants–that is, they think they must be surly and bellicose in order to exercise authority properly.
Store clerks who give you the amount you’re to pay twice–the first time as if they have a mouth full of hot marbles.
Ad infinitum.
Thanks Rysdad, she sounds deserving to be on the EL. Weil is already on there, DavidB.
David Irving - ON THE LIST
What is Haider doing to promote fuzzy thinking? He sounds unpleasant, but the only specific statements I’ve heard attributed to him are that Hitler had “sound fiscal policies” or some such thing, and that he wants to keep out the immigrants. Sounds vaguely Californian. But I confess I know little about it, I haven’t been following the story. So I will again defer to precedent and extend the benefit of the doubt; Joerg Haider is…ON THE LIST
dougie_monty, I’m sorry, but those are all people we can hate, true enough, but they don’t seem particularly prone to the sins of promoting ignorance which would make them the Doper’s collective enemies - with the possible exception of the neighbors dog, who, as you point out, is a great spreader of shit.
The entire English department of any High School.
They force students to tediously dissect novel , poems & plays; at the end of this, one is expected to “appreciate literature”. More often, my fellow classmates of days gone by (& today’s kids too, I’ll bet) came to hate the material they were exposed to. You can’t "teach " literature. Not if you want kids to love literature. The techniques that we use in our English courses have always seemed to me to be the primary source of the dislike of reading that so many people display after leaving high school.
Fortunatly, I learned to love reading very early on.
By the by–there are flying monkeys! Genetic examination of bats indicates that they are not rodents, as was once believed; no, they are genetically monkeys or apes. But don’t tell the people in Kansas–they hate the “E-word”, and would take it all personally.
With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D, and you still have the frog you started with.
Excuse me, but how exactly does Jesse Ventura promote ignorance? Not liking someone does not make them a purveyor of ignorant attitudes. He seems like the only politician on Earth that actually speaks his mind instead of just rambling on about “a bright new tomorrow and blah blah blah blah blah.”
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who
have lost the power of reasoning.
–Voltaire
Shadowfox, your nomination has been challenged. Want to back it up with a quote from governor Ventura?
If no one has a good reason to keep him, I’ll remove him. Besides, he has other things to worry about than our enmity. Heck, he’s so busy with his duties I hear he ain’t got time to bleed.
apb, i really don’t want anyone to feel that i am prejudiced against any particular religion; therefore, i feel it’s only fair to indict them all.
& even a 12-step program to free one from 12-step programs would follow the same formula of persuading participants to feel they have no personal control of their destiny. ergo . . . still, it’s your list & your call.
sorry about the kansas double nomination. guess i missed it.
How about George Dubbya Bush’s pappy, who once said that atheists weren’t real Americans because the U.S. was founded on the bible. The asshole never recanted, and the American press never called him on it.
Hell, put them on the list, too.