When Prospect Magazine wanted to create a list of the world’s Top 100 “Intellectualsâ€, they polled their readership for suggestions.
The cats at Counting Cats saw it first and have a few choice words
I was once accused of being an “intellectual†myself, you know. By a History student (and semi-professional twat). I set him fucking straight and he buggered-off muttering. What a bunch of ass-clowns these one hundred leading lights are! There’s like six people on that list of who have ever done anything to the purpose. The rest would have done more good if they’d just sat in a darkened room and wanked themselves to oblivion, on Golgafrincham Ark Ship B.
NickM
The fact that Noam Chomsky and AlGore made the list above Ayaan Hirsi Ali is just one of his complaints.