SFGate

So I read the San Francisco Chronicle's website, SFGate.com, on a daily basis to keep up with news from my hometown. Generally, I like the Chronicle (even if all of the snobbish intellectual-types in California are always complaining how, really, it sucks compared to, I guess, the New York Times or whatever). However, they have a few columnists who really get my goat, including this jerk, who only appears on their website. Near as I can tell, he's one of those people who thinks that he's the only guy in the world who knows what's up - that people in power lie, that religious folks are all suckers, that pop culture is vapid. He doesn't argue points, he just denigrates whatever he doesn't like. Note the approving quotes on his page about how awesome and one-of-a-kind he is.

His column today is basically about how Star Wars sucks, George Lucas sucks, Star Wars nerds suck, and basically the movies are just crap for little boys. Now, I disagree with all of this, but that's not the point. The point is that he writes this as if, y'know, he's the first person to notice that the emperor has no clothes, as if all sorts of people haven't been saying the same things about the prequels for years now. And as if it really takes balls to attack Star Wars nerds, a universally loathed subculture (are there any subcultures that aren't universally loathed, come to think of it?).

Anyway, I've just always hated people like him (I knew too many of them in college), who seem to think that their drivel is so totally original.