Separated at birth?

 To continue with a theme....More ill-thought out and badly timed lookalikes

John Holbo........

.........Jonah Goldberg

.....or maybe David Brent

Update: Anthony Paul Smith came here thinking this was the room for an argument (see comments). Perhaps some recent comments by Walter Benn Michaels may answer the call (let it not be said that they sheath'd their swords for lack of argument!):

The problem with Lindsay Waters is that he never says anything and what he does say is meaningless. His position is without philosophical content . . . is almost pure ressentiment. But if you want to see ressentiment in its pure, Platonic form, unpolluted by any touch of intellectual content, you should check out this new book, Theory's Empire. You can talk endlessly about the difference between theory with a big-T and theory with a little-t but it won't get you anywhere. Eventually you'll convince yourself you're thinking about arguments when you're really thinking about attitudes. Sure, you can talk about how the two are related but as long as you confuse the two you'll never get anywhere. It's like that thing (turns to Sean), what is that thing, the thing, The Valve? Yes? Endless talk about big-T versus little-t but no real intellectual substance to the conservation.

Comments

[Charles]

Well we may as well link back; it's only fair. Obviously, I shall take soul blame for putting Long Sunday in the bucket with him.

[Adam Kotsko]

This is precisely why I don't allow pictures of myself to be posted on the Internet (or, ideally, taken in the first place). Neither likeness seems especially striking to me, however.

[Scott Eric Kaufman]

You had me fooled for a while there, Adam. I thought that picture of Anthony was of you. Granted, there are many pictures of me floating around the 'net, but none of them are recent...nor do I have what Sean called my "hipster hair" in any of them. (Even the more recent pictures in my Friendster profile are from Halloween or out-of-date.) But surely if the Long Masses can figure out who John looks like, they can mock me with equal aplomb.

[Adam Kotsko]

I know that many people assume that picture of Anthony is actually me, but if that's the case, who's the woman? That's where the argument falls apart.

[Anthony Paul Smith]

I see words and pictures but arguement? Where's the arguement?

[Adam Kotsko]

I like this concept of "soul blame."

[Ray Davis]

I hate the ridiculous (and yet not entertaining) position in which some of his and Rich's posts have placed the Valve. Like prescribing a diabetic a diet consisting of chocolate chip cookies and complaints about their flavor. And I wish they'd join LS or Kotsko's group to consolidate these discussions as discussions rather than turning them into grudge matches between Big Ten teams.

But I know David Brent. I work with David Brent. And I can tell you: John Holbo is no David Brent.

[Charles]

Ah, peace at last.

[CR]

Like it was just me...