Comments on: Intellectual: Labour's new buzzword

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:08:34 +0000

“Joseph Muscat gab l-iskart ta’ haddiehor…”: here’s Tarka Laburista, the anonymous blog on it-torca.com

http://it-torca.blogspot.com/2009/09/fl-ahhar-faqqat.html

By: Mandy Mallia

Mandy Mallia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:43:53 +0000

Look on the bright side, Daph: at least this time they’re using the “double l” correctly, and we’re spared all those ‘intollerants’.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:42:57 +0000

One can call it “intelligence” or “intellectual attitude” but to me it’s plain cunning.

By: me

me — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:09:00 +0000

Some quotes:

I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
– Nathaniel Emmons

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom… Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
– William S. Burroughs (1914 – 1997), Yage Letters

Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.
– Paul Duncun

By: Meerkat:)

Meerkat:) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:12:07 +0000

ejja ha naqraw ftit illejla Doris ghax ahna partit tal-intellettwali

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/sni/lowres/snin21l.jpg

By: eric

eric — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:47:02 +0000

Of all the things you can write about, Daphne, you opt for this crap? God we are really in crisis nowadays.

[Daphne – I may not hold those people in high regard, but please, I draw the line at calling them crap. Also, unlike Kenneth, Marisa and Joseph Muscat, I’m not an intellectual, so don’t come here looking for intelligent insights into situations. I’m an entertainer, not Rosa ‘show me your money’ Luxemburg.]

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:39:16 +0000

The peak of intellectualism is throwing a tantrum “because I want a modern art museum” and demanding a large roofed theatre (“even Haiti and Papua New Guinea have one and we don’t, boohoo”) .

Reminds me of “E’ una battaglia di cultura!” uttered so often by that other intellectual with walking stick and jackboots.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:11:02 +0000

In reply to N.L. Le, hekk tigi blue-eyed boy.

By: N.L

N.L — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:41:39 +0000

Tajjeb mela jien intelletwali, ghax gej mill-klassi tal-haddiema u qatt ma vvutajt Labour (u lanqas ha nivvota).