Inanity
In what will be my final word on the subject, Mark Gisleson has a sort of non-repsonsive response to my post the other day, about his frankly dim little piece about the Northern Alliance's lack of apparent religious faith.
Did he answer the questions the Captain, King and I raised about his East-German-shoddy research? His myopic standard of "measuring" Christianity? The absurdity of his initial premise?
Pffft. No. He just knows the name "Powerline" is a Christian reference.
Powerline so obviously not being a Christian blog…nearly 21,000 links suggest otherwise, and no, powerlineblog.com does not predate most of them. Powerline is a well-established metaphor for the power of god, etc., and it’s impossible to think Messrs. Hindrocket, Johnson, Deacon what al. were oblivious to that tie in.
I won't argue about the "impossible to think" part; Gisleson seems to find many things "inconceivable" in the full Vizzinian sense of the term.
However, the name Powerline, according to a conversation with Rocket Man last January, came from one of his daughters.
Also "inconceivable" is his math. I'll confess - I did goad Gisleson a bit on Monday by saying his piece was a troll for hits. My inner fourth-grader exults; the goad worked:
Truth is I did it just for all the extra eyeballs, driving my traffic up from the previous 2005 high of 821 visits on New Year’s Day to a whopping 955 visits on January 3!
955?
Indeed. What happened on
Monday?
We're a juggernaut, I tells ya!
Welcome to the sausage factory, Norwegianity readers. Mark Gisleson may have the "'nads" for armed revolt - but 'nads make lousy weapons.
Out.
Posted by Mitch at
January 5, 2005 06:27 AM
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Huh. Now it all makes sense.
So, what the esteemed Mr. Gisleson is REALLY saying is that secretly, the late Robert Palmer was a big-time Jesus guy, eh? What with the whole "Powerline"-bit, and all...
Posted by: Jared at January 5, 2005 11:04 AMHis band was "Power Station", of course, but in the end, isn't it just semantics? After all, anything with the word "power" in the title MUST refer to things pertaining to God, right?
It's all just Dunamis to good ol' Mr. Gisleson, it would seem.
Posted by: Jared at January 5, 2005 11:06 AMI always thought that the moniker "Powerline" was a joking reference to the controversy over the high voltage powerline controversy back in the 70's. Remember that? They were going to put a 50kv line across the center of the center of the state, terminating some place in the Dakotas. The local lefties said it would sterilize cattle, make people's teeth fall out, cause cataracts, etc. The East Germans, if I remember correctly, expressed their solidarity with the local left by dispatching to MN some no-name American folk singer who had defected to the workers' paradise years before.
Posted by: Terry at January 5, 2005 11:50 AMGosh I must be old if I can remember that.
Hmm... A quick Google search shows that the word "powerline" has more to do with communications, computers and electricity than it does with "the power of God." This is found by using Gisleson's own method of determining if one blog or another is Christian enough according to his standards (such as they are). There are more hits for "computer," "communication" and "electricity" with "powerline" than there is for "Christianity" and "Christian" and "powerline."
Posted by: Jinx McHue at January 5, 2005 12:26 PMDrat. I forgot to include "power of God" along with "Christian" and "Christianity."
Posted by: Jinx McHue at January 5, 2005 12:37 PMGiosleson's "argument" had to be one of the silliest, and yes, most inane, arguments any of us have ever read. The sad thing is that Gisleson is an idiot troll fishing for hits on his site. It probably worked.
Posted by: James Ph. at January 5, 2005 08:14 PM"Gisleson seems to find many things 'inconceivable' in the full Vizzinian sense of the term."
I'm one of those geeks who will always give points for a good Princess Bride reference; but extra points for "Vizzinian"! That's a new one to me.
Posted by: UML Guy at January 6, 2005 01:47 AMUML - I was hoping someone would catch that!
Posted by: mitch at January 6, 2005 07:06 AMCaught...and released.
Posted by: Pious Agnosti at January 6, 2005 02:20 PM