“Higher criticism”?

MENJ’s appeal to the historical-critical method is a red herring. He wasn’t applying ‘higher criticism’, he was applying his own version of some form of ‘meta-something’ criticism which has lost its footing. “Higher criticism” has closer relations to hermeneutics than polemics, dear sir, and I can’t see how in any way it falls under the ambit of discussion. At all.

And I see you’ve now deleted your offending post, since I can’t find it anywhere on your blog.


Sir, if you’re reading this, it’s one thing to attack the policies of a man, and quite another to attack his family, his honour and to kick him in his balls while he’s grieving. It isn’t even about public mourning, it’s just plain mean-spirited.

You can cloak your distasteful attitude with the trappings of terms you assume people don’t understand, but shooting yourself in the foot by reference to a Wikipedia entry that shows more than anything how absolutely clueless you are is just the icing on the cake, really.

I don’t understand what is it with people who don’t respect the dead. Have you been to funerals and overheard the words of spiteful people saying spiteful things about the dead person? I have had the displeasure of experiencing this so very un-Malaysian predisposition; the predisposition to be a complete ass when common decency isn’t part of their lexicon.

Yah, man. I agree with MENJ: he has first class amenities at his disposal, but a sun-baked mentality attached.

Update 22/10/05: Ok, it’s pretty spooky. As at 11.40 am today, MENJ’s blog can’t be accessed. Did some yahoo waste all his available bandwidth for this month? Did someone hack his account? Did the government blow his bits and bytes to oblivion? And my personal favourite, did the Gods of Internet Justice kick ass?!