Use ‘Derbyshire’ as a Verb
7th April 2012
The Other McCain jumps into the latest SWPL controversy, this one involving John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspspsia.
What you might not notice is that this is a skirmish on the fringes of the Trayvon Martin controversy, which has turned into a stalemate, so that now frustrated people are in scalp-taking mode. The NBC producer got taken out by conservatives and now, for some strange reason, NR‘s John Derbyshire just volunteers himself as a target for the Left?
It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it. Since Derb turned up with cancer perhaps he’s looking for a grenade to fall on.
One problem I’ve discovered in trying to communicate with intellectuals is that so many of them are wimps from sheltered backgrounds whose mamas wouldn’t let them play football — apple-polishing goodie-two-shoes who never strayed outside the confines of their safe, wholesome, upwardly-mobile affluent cocoon.
Yeah, that matches my experience. Couple of years in the military would straighten them out — but usually that sort of thing is too yucky for them, so they just stay drones. So we wind up with a country run by drones, which results as you see them.
April 7th, 2012 at 17:09
Derbyshire’s contemptible critics are unworthy to polish the man’s shoes. They live their lives by the theses he has posted on the door of their Cathedral, but they point and sputter at the articulation of them. Hot places in Hell are reserved for those such as these.
April 7th, 2012 at 18:12
I think the better verb would be “Lowry,” meaning to shamelessly race-pander.
April 7th, 2012 at 19:05
Nope, that niche is already occupied by ‘Sharpton’.
April 7th, 2012 at 21:34
Lowry is a worm. Worms are dirt cheap and best used as bait. Let Derbyshire have the verb, for he is actually a man.
April 8th, 2012 at 15:29
Perhaps Derbyshire thought his illness made him immune from retaliation: how heartless to fire a valued employee and cause him to lose his health insurance (I AM speculating here) when he’s so ill. Derbyshire didn’t know Republicans like those at NR as well as he thought: they derive pleasure from shafting employees, like the robber-barons of old.
April 9th, 2012 at 03:29
I doubt that National Review provides health insurance to its contributors, as opposed to staff members like Lowry and Goldberg, but I’m sure this will have an adverse effect on his income. Those who find that disturbing, as I do, can donate to his support at http://www.johnderbyshire.com, and I would encourage all to do so.