Is Jason Calacanis on crack?

This response isn't all that awesome either. Lets have a better go..

1. Google Buzz 1.0 is better than Facebook after six or seven years.

Clearly depends on your opinion - define "better" for a start. We'll leave this one.

2. Facebook’s history is one filled with stealing other people’s innovations and doing them better (i.e. Zuckerberg has stolen every idea Evan Williams and the Twitter team have released). How ironic now that Google has out “Facebooked” Facebook. Google

Again a pointless, umm, point. Im guessing most people will agree here that ideas are fairly worthless - execution is everything. It is a matter of opinion whether Facebook executed them better. Onwards again...

3. Google has excellent privacy record and Facebook is a disaster. Most folks do not trust Zuckerberg and Facebook any more because of their privacy record (filled with lawsuits) and because they steal every good idea they see (i.e. Twitter’s innovations and FourSquare’s checking in).

Probably a fair point; though Google has had problems in the past Facebook's have been much more public (for the average user). Irrespective of that the security idiocy this time round in the launch of Buzz means previous good will has the potential to go out the window. Even if you still trust Google with your privacy (which I still do, as it happens) the product Buzz is going to be heavily tainted from the outset. This will damage pickup for Google.

4. Google Buzz auto generates your network–this is MUCH better process than Facebook’s.

This is probably the crux of the thing. Yeh it didnt work out well and the new way is no better than Facebook offers. But I think it misses the point and ignores the only really clear argument he could make: google has the content. They have a LOT of content, lots and lots. And most of it is great. it's different content to Facebook (and stuff I am more interested in as it happens) and there is scope in the future for a wider variety of content too.

5. Google Buzz is way faster than the sluggish Facebook–this is a HUGE advantage. Can't comment as I never properly tried Buzz for any length of time - but again this is somewhat subjective.

6. Google Buzz puts relies and updates into your GMAIL as threads–this is BRILLIANT and a HUGE advantage.

Hmm. I dont think Buzz really fits into an Inbox style workflow - I actually think this is it's biggest flaw.

Ultimately comparing Facebook to Buzz is difficult - they serve different purposes and hold a lot of different content, despite occupying similar arena's.

I'm not sure which arguments are worse: Calacanis's cheerleading of Buzz, or this guy's inability to make a point without resorting to calling someone an idiot multiple times.

I thought this response was brilliant

This response is almost as over the top as the article it derides; but it does have a point - the original article uses a bunch of superlatives without much justification. I am willing to accept that feature x is 'brilliant', but only if you offer me some evidence to that effect.