A bit of history for you Carpenter. Back in the days of the Vikings, people traveled on the basis of the word of mouth, they didn’t have GPS. Vikings would come into your village, rape your women, and kill your men. Although they may keep your pages where they are, where Republicans like them. They may even employ the pages, but I digress.

Thus people would want to get revenge on the Vikings. Thus they’d ask, where the Vikings are from. Greenland would be the response, so that the avengers go and freeze in the ice, while Iceland was green and produced crops. Also, basic geographical common sense would tell one that since Iceland lies SOUTH of Greenland, Greenland would be covered with Ice, and Iceland would be very nice. Then again, you Palin Republicans lack even the basic knowledge: newsflash: Africa has always been, and remains, a continent!!!

So that’s Vikings. As for polar bears, yeah, I’m sorry that Putin won’t actually let you use dive bombers to take the polar bears out, like Palin does. I guess this is proof that Russia is evil.

And about Al Gore’s trial, his main point was that the sea levels are rising, too bad you were checking out Sara Palin at the time, and thinking about congressional pages, and skipped that part. But next, you will assure us with talking points that sea levels are, like the economy on a sine curve, and they fall and rise irrespective of what humans do, even though all scientific evidence proves to the contrary.

And if you think Neocons are for a welfare state, you need to visit a brain surgeon, ASAP!

Jesus, you have no idea how often the comments on Youtube have made me wonder if the homo sapiens really wiped out all of the neanderthals or if they just blended into the the human population, secretly planning to win a demographics war by breeding us out like Palestinians in Israel or Catholics in Northern Ireland. When that day comes, be prepared for the deklar8ion of emansop8ion of the kneeanderfall n8ion!!!!! HOMO S8PIENS BE LIKE SO HOMO DAWGZ!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

there really is no debate about among the scientific community about the role of human action in global warming, you will always find your dissidents in every field, the flat earth society is a permanent component of human civilization for a variety of reasons, but I suspect you know this, and your desire to present these extreme positions probably center around some desperate attempt to get attention, although you will think that intellectual grandstanding will abnegate how pathetic it is, because there is one central fact, people who seek out opposing opinions in forums such as this for the sheer purpose of confrontation, whether it be under the veil of “look how superior I am for getting all of these ____________ worked up” or whether you have a genuine psychological desire to somehow prove everyone wrong, thereby reinforcing your own desperate and stable vision of the world, you’re just sad. That is not to say that people need to agree or that debate in itself is abnormal, but the type of confrontation seeking you are engaged in is so obvious to anyone who understands how pathetic it is to be someone like you. Good luck.

Baseless drivellings like yours are available for free at Pajamas Media. Surely you can do better.

Your snarky insults are to no avail: you Al Gore loyalists have nothing to back up your claims. Polar bears drowning? Oh, please: when asked in court, the only support the Gore side had for that claim was that some polar bears had drowned in a storm. In fact, there are three times more polar bears alive today than fifteen years ago. And as for temperature changes, a thorough study from 2007 showed no correlation at all between ups and downs in co2 production and temperature during the 20th century. In fact, 2008 was the coolest year in a decade. Temperatures have fluctuated throughout the centuries; the Dark Ages were much warmer than Europe today, which is why the Vikings called Greenland green; it was covered by grass, not ice. Grapes were grown in Britain, and Sweden at that time was far hotter than today.

But I digress. Mustn’t let the morons sidetrack any discussion with their environment stuff. Where did the 1980s warnings about “global cooling” go, I wonder though? Howling, snarky environmentalists warned about how pollution would cool down the world, through a permanent cloud cover. Ah, well.

Maybe you mean guys such as David Frum (a leftist who agreed to be Bush’s speechwriter only on the promise that it would be for the benefit of wars against Israel’s enemies, according to his own autobiography), Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and the rest of the neocons. They are not right-wing, they only masquerade as such. They are in favor of the leftist welfare state, the leftist idea of mass immigration and affirmative discrimination, and anything else that will give ordinary Americans a bad day. They are only “right-wing” in that they, as neocons, managed to use the Pentagon’s resources to whack and bully the nations that give aid to the Palestinian resistance.

Real right-wing conservatives are witty, resourceful, and dare I say far more handsome than these pretenders.

By the way. I grew up seeing the same thing every election here in my own country: the conservative posters torn down, conservative billboards vandalized. The leftist ones were left untouched. Which side is the snarky one? The left also support riots and car burnings in Parisian suburbs. That’s when an ideology goes from being simply snarky to being an enemy of the country it parasitizes on.

FYI, I’m not being snarky. That was plain ol’ lowbrow sarcasm.

Like it or not, snark is going to be used by everyone in the media warfare game. So spit on Denby and snark away. Besides the good or evil definitions of snark are subjective. And no truly intelligent people watch South Park anyways, it’s a delusion for the mental middle class.

As for Alex’s comment on Gore’s “Internet Invention” that’s not the end of the argument. Just ask the person who said it, to explain to you why the ice is melting and water levels are rising. Kind of a sweet justice in that, rich losing their islands to Mother Nature, after paying to pollute Mother Nature. Nature’s no one’s bitch, but you rich jackasses contributing to pollution WILL lose that offshore tax account. Let’s just hope that no bailout’s available for you Mofos. Only worthy bailout claim was made by the PORN industry anyways.

Americans (noun?) – people who give away 700 billion dollars without so much as asking for a receipt and then wonder why they’re in debt and paying income taxes as debt taxes, err interest rates, to dictatorial China.

Needless to say I never felt compelled to read him again.

But there’s also an embarassing kind of almost scary preaching going on in many later episodes of South Park

like I remember one about scientology or tom cruise or whatever and in the end they had Kyle preach to the audience to the backing of a sad piano score. It was both digusting and puzzling at the same time

But real (and admirable) snark can’t be found with the shark-jumping knuckle-draggers at South Park. As you pointed out, they’re too one-dimensional. Real snark ain’t so sophomoric, or rather, it ain’t JUST sophomoric. REAL snark is high, low, and everything in between.

For real quality snark in the bestest-yet-still-more-or-less-undefined sense of the word, you need go no further than this site. Particularly the reviews, but its everywhere. And for quality (U.S.) political snark, check out Wonkette.com. Subtle as getting teabagged by TRUCKNUTZ, yet still….

So we get a bunch of snarky quotes that become memes, ready to be endlessly repeated by those lacking any critical faculties, even in the presence of all evidence to the contrary. So in response to any claim made by Al Gore about global warming, any jackass can pretend to be someone cynical and savvy by deploying something like “sure, tell us all how you invented the Internet again”. End of argument.

Finally, because snark can only be used to say negative things and not anything positive, it leads to the sort of insipid, simplistic moral equivalency (again, illustrated perfectly in South Park) which says that both sides of any given issue are ridiculous, and that everyone is equally silly, corrupt, etc.

In short, snark is too often the weapon of those who have neither the intellect to figure out where they actually stand on an issue, nor the balls to declare it.