Why do I do it? Some high school English teacher with an axe to grind has started filling Show-Me Daily with rancor and intimations of institutional bias — as though he thinks nobody could possibly reach the conclusions we publish unless somebody paid us to doctor the research. But I know what we do is accurate, to a fault, and it’s obvious he’s a crank that nobody will take seriously. Still, I keep responding — even though his comments all follow posts I didn’t write. Check it out:
Answers to Charter School Criticism
Professional Licensing: A First-Person Perspective
Another Reduction in Government Lobbying
The guy devotes his comments to ad hominem attacks to such an absurd degree that he reminds me of this Onion article.
In other work-related news, I have a piece in the latest issue of Atlas Highlights. Yay.
Update: I’ll keep adding adding links to blog entries that this guy has commented on. He’s pretty entertaining.
[…] sucked into the school choice debate over at Eric’s place of employment. Though Eric really doesn’t need my help, I’m just kind of backing him up a […]
Pingback by The Shrubbloggers » Troll Bait — May 30, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
[…] Dixon, on Shrubbloggers, alerts readers to a super-hilarious blogging “debate” on the Show-Me Institute blog. The St. […]
Pingback by Wirkman Netizen » Blog Archive » Gnatekoric — June 2, 2009 @ 2:06 pm