Upgraded Pejoratives for Political Bloggers
But as satisfying as it may be for so many pseudonymous posters to bang out "the idiot Jacob Freeze" or "the moron Jacob Freeze" on their battered keyboards, they could signify an almost equivalent disqualification by writing "the gifted Jacob Freeze" or "the individual of highly superior intelligence Jacob Freeze," since even the highest categories on the scale of intelligence only include two or three people who will ever write anything other than gibberish about the monstrous complexities of the political scene.
I avoid the hopelessness implicit in this sad truth by narrowly basing my own opinions on political economics, for example, on a careful reading of Paul Krugman, and if a question about the political implications of foreign espionage arises where I don't have the guidance of Bob Baer or Pat Lang, I just shut up.
So the next time an internet pseudonym wants to insult me, he or she might just as well hammer out "the genius Jacob Freeze" instead of "the idiot Jacob Freeze," because even geniuses don't understand politics any better than idiots, and you have to climb a hundred rungs higher up the ladder of intelligence before you encounter anybody who isn't just whistling in the dark.
