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Kevin’s Law

by Tim F|  August 10, 200611:25 am| 15 Comments

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“If you’re forced to rely on random blog commenters to make a point about the prevalence of some form or another of disagreeable behavior, you’ve pretty much made exactly the opposite point.”

Sounds good to me. If I had one quibble I would make it ‘Drum’s Law’ since the semantics of law naming usually call for last names.

We at BJ have a dispensation to defy semantics, because ‘F’s Law’ is too vague and ‘Cole’s Law’ sounds silly.

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  1. 1.

    Steve

    August 10, 2006 at 11:29 am

    “Cole’s Law” sounds tasty, particularly since it’s lunchtime.

  2. 2.

    John S.

    August 10, 2006 at 11:33 am

    LOL Steve.

    Nice play on phonetics.

  3. 3.

    demimondian

    August 10, 2006 at 11:47 am

    “Cole’s Law” sounds tasty, particularly since it’s lunchtime.

    Filthy East-coast centric clocks. I’m just finishing my third cup of coffee.

  4. 4.

    RSA

    August 10, 2006 at 12:41 pm

    Yes, “Kevin’s Law” sounds too much like something the California legislature might have passed to. . .I don’t know; someone cleverer than I should be able to think of something appropriate.

    “F.’s Law” sounds like a foreign euphemism, somehow.

  5. 5.

    yet another jeff

    August 10, 2006 at 2:11 pm

    Yeah, “Kevin’s Law” sounds like a law forced through on emotional appeal, lobbied for by a group of grieving mothers.

  6. 6.

    DwightKSchrute

    August 10, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    It really came to light with that Lanny Davis piece in the Wall Street Journal. It’s unbelievable that a legitimate news source like the WSJ would allow such shoddy practices even in an op-ed. Accusing a candidate/party of being anti-semetic based on blog comments, not blog postings but blog comments. That’s borderline David Glass material. I highly doubt Davis had the wherewithal or moxie to plant those comments, but what’s to stop him or anyone else from doing that? And for that matter who can clearly know the intent of any blog comment? Would anyone be shocked to find out that supporters of LGF, Malkin, Red State, etc. were planting over the top comments on Kos, Huffington, Atrios, etc. just so they could turn around and point them out as being proof to their points? And of course it’s a two way street, that scenario is just as likely when swapping the sites listed. The WSJ should be ashamed that they let such reprehensible journalism practices appear on their pages.

  7. 7.

    Steve

    August 10, 2006 at 2:39 pm

    Would anyone be shocked to find out that supporters of LGF, Malkin, Red State, etc. were planting over the top comments on Kos, Huffington, Atrios, etc. just so they could turn around and point them out as being proof to their points?

    No. That would never happen.

  8. 8.

    JC

    August 10, 2006 at 3:14 pm

    “We at BJ”
    “F’s Law”

    The euphemisms here are getting “suggestive”, I’m just sayin’…

  9. 9.

    Otto Man

    August 10, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    Agreed. “Kevin’s Law” sounds like it’s a response to an abducted toddler.

  10. 10.

    The Other Steve

    August 10, 2006 at 5:04 pm

    Cherry Picking Law

    Although Darrell is gonna be dissapointed by this one.

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    Krista

    August 10, 2006 at 8:27 pm

    We at BJ have a dispensation to defy semantics, because ‘F’s Law’ is too vague and ‘Cole’s Law’ sounds silly.

    Why be limited by the word “law”? “Cole’s Commandment” has a nice ring to it. As does “Tim’s Decree”

  12. 12.

    Steve

    August 11, 2006 at 5:56 pm

    For what it’s worth, “Cole’s Law” is an instrumental song by Steve Kimock. It’s very good :)

    http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aetree%20AND%20%2Fmetadata%2Fcreator%3A%22Steve%20Kimock%20Band%22&sort=-%2Fmetadata%2Fdate

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  1. A Citizen’s Guide to Internet Law § Unqualified Offerings says:
    August 10, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    […] not so sure; pretty intolerant of Drum, who sounds like a Nazi to me. * Posted by Mona @ 8:39 pm, Filed under: Main « « An Inspirational Story on the Nanometer Scale | Main| […]

  2. a meme that deserves to spread at a crank’s progress says:
    August 11, 2006 at 2:10 am

    […] Man, the nutpickers were out in force after Tuesday’s Ned Lamont victory. As for the law itself, Tim F. suggests “Drum’s Law” instead of “Kevin’s Law” because, as one of his commenters puts it, the former “sounds like it’s a response to an abducted toddler.” […]

  3. Balloon Juice says:
    January 11, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    […] First there was Godwin’s Law. Then we had the less noticeable Kevin’s Law and Cole’s Law. Now, after reading the Jonah Goldberg interview in Salon, our commentariat has come up with the “Goldberg Principle”: […]

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