Comments on: You Had to Go and Say It, Didn’t You?

By: Kléber Raposadinho

Kléber Raposadinho — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:51:17 +0000

When you have an anti-intellectual, pro-infotainment culture, that equate faith and science as two equals to be selected because we all get a choice in Candy fucking Land you get a dysfunctional democracy and bad government. Surprise!

So if you want to throw the bums out, destroy the system of election that depends on unregulatable currency with some other system of credit allocation that recognizes democracy requires universal equality of capacity to contribute and determine who the candidates are and what the priorities on the agenda are and the ability of someone who is not a wealthy fundraising back slap happy lawyer or “Businessman”, to serve.

By: curv3ball

curv3ball — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:08:03 +0000

Harmonic the 2nd, it is not for us to command He, the One of ultimate purity and irreproachable jaded wisdom and grand aloofiosity.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:03:20 +0000

Ooooh is not the great Alex Smithee going to favor us with a ponderous blast of inside-baseball punditometric pedantry withal?
Whereforesoever withholdeth he us our just and thrice-deserved bottom-beatings?

By: JoeLieberman

JoeLieberman — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:04:30 +0000

Can I Haz Annuder Intarwebs Candidate? Kthnxby!

By: RasPoutine

RasPoutine — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:51:28 +0000

Sweet Zombie Jesus, thank you curv3ball. After watching this K’Thrugman column send John Cole and several others into pearl-clutching fits, its a breath of fresh air.

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:56:07 +0000

Starbucks…

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:52:46 +0000

Re: global warming/whatever, what bugs me isn’t anyone’s attestation or denial of long-term anthropogenic climate change, it’s that we don’t even bother preparing for well-known, if not precisely periodic, global climate changes that historically cause major crop failures (I understand that global food production is estimated to be down 20-40% this year).

During a time when human population is huge and still upwardly spiking, and arable farm land is steadily being replaced by Furrymobile superhighways, latte housing megaplexes utilizing the well-known efficiency of the cul de sac as a means of efficient distributed transport, and the ever-growing Wonders of the Mall!

(cue cloned Walter Cronkhite voice, a youngish 23 or so in the year 2044):

“We’re hang-gliding over the majestic Mall of the Americas. Ages have been at work upon this marvel of nature, and man can only mar it, so ploughman, spare that shopping aisle! Woodsman, spare that permanent year round faux Xmas tree!”

Friggin’ Sarbucks huggers…

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:38:04 +0000

"...(if you ignore chronology, actual level of influence and several other key factors)..." ...in a manner more detailed and researched on a deeply profound basis that has never before seen the light of day and likely never will, unless grown men pull giant she shells from their valiant rectae, I present, ladies and gentleman, Spongebob Shrillpants!

By: curv3ball

curv3ball — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:37:29 +0000

Heh.

By: vachon

vachon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:43:53 +0000

So Krugman is “hysterical and shrill”. That’s merely the author’s tribute to LGBT month. Or he’s calling Krugman a pussy. Tough call, really.

Btw, “feckless incumbents” takes my breath away.