…dig faster. If Marky-Mark York had a brain, he’d have let yesterday’s entry go without comment. If he had half a brain, he’d have stopped after I poked fun at him for falsely assuming I was a woman. If he had one-eighth of a brain, he’d at least have quit falsely assuming I was a woman by that point, rather than leave it up to me to mock him a second time over the same stupid assumption,without even attempting to answer Aphrael’s question as to where the hell he got that idea in the first place. Even one-sixteenth of a brain would have been enough to to heed Clark’s sage advice not to argue with me at all. There’s only one thing he clearly would not have done: blame me for his own idiocy.

xrlq

Well that’s enough of this guy: xlrq. [sic] That’s the problem with these right-wingnuts who blog anonymously. No one can read just who they are, so in the sea of links about him I hit the first one that gave me a real name. A female wingnut from the pile on the right. Har har. So he spent the day dissing my school and grades from his cave. Crawl back in troglodyte the coast is clear.

Got that? The first blogger who uses a real name and also links to me is a woman, therefore, I must be one, too. O-kay. Here’s an earlier post, in which he elaborated as to which woman I was supposed to be:

Blogger Infamy

I stirred the pile over at the wingnut blogs and now have an entire link-riddled post devoted to my demise via ad hominem by a vile right-wing female going under the handle Xrlq. Justene Ademec [sic] as near as I can tell. Whatever. The bitch is too stupid to comment on using innuendo and circumstantial ad hominems via my resume, grades and so on, and the fact that I got banned for calling Patterico a jerk for comparing Sen. Tom Daschle to a ventriloquist’s dummy.

Is that something a LA County prosecutor from Fort Worth with an elite Cornell education should do? I think it’s gutteral [sic] and he should be fired for crude public commentary unfit for a public employee.

So they DO hate: “Not to worry, all your York-hating needs can be met here.” The X woman’s website has crashed from onslaught. Such a nice Cal State bashing bunch. Conservatives for Harvard when it suits their needs.

So, the first blogger with a real name and a blog of her own links to me was Justene Adamec. Therefore, it stands to reason that I must be … Justene Adamec! Oops, I mean “Ademec.” No wonder this guy got an A in Logic at the prestigious California State University at Northridge, where he’s about to graduate cum laude (apparently, that’s what CSUN hands out to the 16% of its students who manage to make it all the way through without transferring or flunking out).

After this, I promise to try to return damnum absque injuria to its prior status as a York-free zone. If Marky-Mark manages to post anything new that it is so dumb as to still be blogworthy after this, I recommend he go back to his failed acting/writing career and try to get a contract to write the script for the forthcoming blockbuster, Dumber and Dumbererererererer.

Zombyboy’s got his. Here’s mine:

Q: How many men does it take to open a beer?

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In the uncorrected journalism department, be sure to take a gander at today’s corrections in the Dog Trainer, the Los Angeles rag affectionately known by its supporters as the Los Angeles Times. Among these corrections, we are alerted to eleven Really Important Facts:

1. Ed Rakochy, who the Trainer erroneously identified on Monday as a member of the Yorba Linda Historical Society, is actually a member of the Yorba Linda Historical Society. More importantly, perhaps, he spoke on behalf of the Yorba Linda Historical Conservancy, a different organization of which Mr. Rakochy is also a member. Betcha didn’t know that.
2. Accutane patients typically take that drug for 15-20 weeks, not days. Exception: patients who ignore their doctors’ prescriptions and rely on newspapers instead, typically do quit after 20 days, except in the unlikely event that they read the subsequent, well-buried correction page.
3. Only one, not two, of the three idiots on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors would have to change his/her vote to allow voters to decide whether or not to cave in to the ACLU over the county seal, without first having to gather an insane number of signatures.
4. When citing a staute, six does not equal eight, and there is no such California Civil Code Section 13.83.05. California doesn’t even number its statutes that way, although Washington does. Perhaps this error had something to do with the Trainer’s questionable decision of hiring Michael Kinsley without requiring him to move here. [For what it's worth, the cite doesn't work in Washington, either. Title 13 of the Revised Code of Washington relates to juvenile offenses which, contrary to popular opinion, do not include writing badly researched news articles. There is no Chapter 63 or 83 to that title. ]
5. Herwig Hosele, an Austrian guy you’ve never heard of, is a former president, not the current president, of some federal council that you also haven’t heard of.
6. Jill Ellen McGrath, a pimping and pandering suspect from Lawndale, had her bail set at $1 million rather than $35,000. I feel safer already.
7. “The West Wing,” a quaint little TV show in which Martin Sheen is allowed to act important while others are required to pretend that they are about his political views, won four, not three consecutive Emmys for Most Pretentions Best Drama Series.
8. Neither Mexico nor Holland is in Scandinavia.
9. Unless you originally obtained your house for free, you can’t make $925,000 off of it by selling it for $925,000. Merely listing it that price, doesn’t guarantee you’ll make any money at all.
10. Forty-two years ago, some guy you never heard of won one kind of medal you’ve never heard of, not a different kind of medal you’ve never heard of, for his acting role in a movie you probably have heard of, but not seen. [Note to M. Croche: this example does not apply to you. You probably have seen it, although in all likelihood, you missed the point.]
11. Last, but definitely not least, that “hydrofoil” from New Jersey you thought you were looking at yesterday in Section A was really a hovercraft.

It’s great that they took the time to correct all this trivia. Too bad they forgot to correct a more egregious error from Tuesday’s editorial, in which they grossly misstated federal law by implying that Californians can legally purchase “assault” weapons in other states.

Get a load of the smug look on Tony Karon’s face that accompanies his snarkily titled entry, “Bush and Iraq: Follow the Yellow Cake Road.” Funny-money quote:

The question is no longer whether the President uttered a falsehood in his indictment of Iraq; it’s at what point the Administration learned the claim of uranium purchases from Niger was false.

Sr. Xrlq (who is a man) alerted me to this story, and also passed along the following message to Mr. Karon:

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