Reason Magazine Editors- Still Douchebags.
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BTW- I don’t care what you think of Obama’s job performance, but this is COOL. Period:
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Reason Magazine Editors- Still Douchebags.
*** Update ***
BTW- I don’t care what you think of Obama’s job performance, but this is COOL. Period:
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Corner Stone
That’s not a Fonzie jacket! That’s a Gestapo jacket!
Oh,…wait
EconWatcher
I stood next to the Fonzi of Freedom on the DC metro a couple of months back. He wasn’t wearing the trademark leather jacket, but had some stylish boots and a peacoat thing going. (Is that what middle-aged hipsters wear?) Anyway, if you work in DC, you tend to run into these people all the time. (The Moustache of Understanding parks in my building.)
My question is, would you say something? If so, what?
Steve in Iowa
@EconWatcher:
“My God, man. Please just have the dignity to age gracefully.”
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
You know, for a reasonably liberal place like the American Prospect, it sure feels like its commenter audience is almost 95% winger.
cathyx
I agree with what Paul Waldman wrote.
the Conster
Obama has made every sad Larry with insecurities completely loco. It’s fun as hell to watch.
Hunter Gathers
Wow. I guess their dicks really are that small.
General Stuck
Maroons.
Bill Clinton relished the stardom, and the wingnuts tried the same shit on him, for exactly zero gain.
Obama in just about every way that matters to ma and pa kettle out there in the countryside, appearing as fine upstanding Christian folk. Though maybe a little Muslim on too much Fox News days. But otherwise, the Obama’s are so normal it makes the teeth hurt.
No blue dresses with presidential semen, nor any of the other material they need to push the hedonistic sex obsessed lib wagon. So they make big fools of themselves, and set their own guy up for the same, who also happens to be VERY rich, for the same celebrity charge, when he will almost certainly appear on this or that late night teevee show, or some other ‘celebrity’ venue. They got nuthin, and have had nuthin on the Obama’s for three years plus now, and you can see Karl Roves cherub arse sticking up from being headfirst scraping the bottom of his wingnut meme barrel.
Brachiator
The Reason gang should throw in Ayn Rand’s fur coat:
AA+ Bonds
Okay, but who the fuck writes a response of this length to something a brownshirt like Matt Welch posts
. . . seriously, do not engage
Do not ever have this argument with a sane human, let alone a libertarian
The proper length for this response was zero words, posted never
Steve
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: Judging from the volume of comments, I think most of them must be Instapundit fans.
AA+ Bonds
@Brachiator:
Wow that is motherfucking gross
daveNYC
@Brachiator: Oh great. Ayn Rand naked. Time for the brain bleach.
Shinobi
TAP writer is wrong about there being no funny Obama parodies.
Here’s one parodying the very coolness he’s talking about.
EconWatcher
@Brachiator:
Helen Mirren is a beautiful woman. (She’s the only 67-year old I can think of whom I’d call smoking hot.) But she really needs to focus her talents more selectively.
General Stuck
So are shithouse rats
Chuck Butcher
Good grief.
Cool?
I suppose the President is and Mitt is not. I do know it is a hell of a lot easier to like the President and polling reflects that I’m not alone. All that said, I really don’t know who that ad is aimed at other than people who would vote against the President anyhow and on that measure seems a waste of money (I don’t mind that).
I am amused by the kerfuffle raised by what seem to be the same folks who were wowed by GWB’s …um package… in a flight suit on Mission Accomplished Day.
*edit
which I’m sure they’ve forgotten or are embarrassed by… oops, maybe not.
AA+ Bonds
It is pretty clear that Ayn Rand never managed to sublimate her libido, because she couldn’t string together a basic logical argument and Lord knows she could neither write nor speak cogently
AFAIK she never managed to create anything that could be described as great or even adequate except a misanthropic following who thought of quantum physics as heresy
But it is also clear that like a great many cults, Objectivism centered around
1) retraining people’s brains with a new bullshit vocabulary oriented toward the cult leader
2) holding out the promise of guaranteed sex to the lonely and rejected
Brachiator
@EconWatcher:
Agreed on almost all points. Mirren is great enough an actress to pull of a good Rand. She’s got the background for it as well. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was of Russian origin, and later changed his name to the more Scottish sounding Mirren.
@General Stuck:
RE: because she was highly sexual.ā
Hah! Point noted.
FlipYrWhig
I can see the big Republican meta-strategy shaping up. It’s going to be Romney As Fifties Dad. He’s not a barrel of laughs, but he knows what’s best, and he’ll whip you into shape, so stop carrying on, go put on a clean shirt, and sit up straight.
Steve in DC
@EconWatcher
I tend to avoid talking with famous people in DC. I’ve had more than my fair share of being forced to deal with politicos because of work to find dealing with them anything but obnoxious. I did run into a drunk as hell Chris Hitchens at a PNC bank once, he was pretty upset.
Chuck Butcher
@FlipYrWhig:
The 60s just never go away, do they?
FlipYrWhig
@Chuck Butcher: Despite our best efforts.
General Stuck
@FlipYrWhig:
Maybe they need to dig up Lawrence Welk for Romney to appear on his show
Corner Stone
@Steve in DC:
Do you continue to serve them drinks on those fabulous silver trays you carry round? Or do you cut them off and start bringing round the warmed over pig-n-blankets?
EconWatcher
@Brachiator:
Did not know that. My wife is Russian, and loves to hear about celebrities who are secretly Russian.
Jay C
@Brachiator:
At first read, I thought your comment read:
“The Reason gang should throw UP in Ayn Rand’s fur coat”
I think my version works just as well…
Steve in DC
@Corner Stone
I worked at the Pentagon and I currently work for an NGO that gets a ton of our funding through USAID, is part of the Bush HIV/AIDS initiative and gets Gates money. Fundraising and going to the hill is a thing we have to do. Dealing with these people on global initiatives is a thing we do as well.
That’s kinda why we have an office in DC, better access to politicos.
FlipYrWhig
@General Stuck: Romney has a Steve Allen “Just not sure about this jungle music” quality about him.
Chuck Butcher
@General Stuck:
The Reagan zombie would be jealous
Forum Transmitted Disease
@Steve in DC: Oh. I thought it was to push GOP propaganda in the form of concern trolling, because that’s all you’ve ever done here.
AA+ Bonds
Excuse me if I implied above that the amused response of the philosophical disciplines to Rand’s work resulted from her glaring and basic mistakes when attempting to outline the arguments of seminal Western thinkers like Spinoza and Kant
I meant to say it happened because of a gigantic Communist conspiracy that continues to this day
burnspbesq
@EconWatcher:
“Helen Mirren is a beautiful woman. (Sheās the only 67-year old I can think of whom Iād call smoking hot.)”
Catherine Deneuve is 68.
burnspbesq
This is going to be a wild one. Bucknell and Colgate are tied 5-5 after the first quarter.
Steve in DC
@Forum
I’m hardly GOP. I just don’t delude myself that there is a shred of difference between well off socially liberal democrats and the guys actually running the GOP. The GOP is mainly willing to troll social issues for votes, but if you think the rich feminist lawyers in DC that support the blue team give one rats ass about the middle class you’re smoking crack.
I detest all of them.
Calouste
You know, that leather jacket reminds me of a documentary I once saw about the early days of punk. They interviewed Siouxsie Sioux (who was a really early trendsetter) about clothing in those days and she commented on the leather jackets they wore in the early days that they weren’t cool at all. They got them from second hand stores and people had originally worn them to keep warm while going to work on their mopeds and stuff like that, and they got really naff designs.
Corner Stone
@Steve in DC: [laughing]
Cato
Yup. Obambi may be “cool”, but what we need now after being led by the biggest celebrity in the world for four years is serious man, not a song and dance act. Obambi tap dances and sings show tunes while the economy burns.
Steve
@burnspbesq: I kinda like how you don’t even bother to mention what sport it is, knowing by this point that no one else will care about it anyway.
David Koch
Sure, Obama could rape a nun on TV and Cole would defend him.
FlipYrWhig
@Cato: Like Mr. Bojangles, amirite?
opie jeanne
I hang out on a baseball blog and Matt Welch hangs out there too, and it’s all I can do to be civil and keep the subject on BASEBALL!!! We try not to talk politics there but he and one or two other guys make political comments, and most of us remind them to take it elsewhere.
We have an annual meet-up in Vegas for the blog, and Reason had their convention/lecture/discussion series the same week. I can’t believe people paid that kind of money to go hear these idiots. $495 single, $795 couple. Wouldn’t that be a fun date?
http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/03/celebrate-bastille-day-at-free
The very first discussion listed is “Selfishness: Virtue or Vice?”
I have to ask, didn’t any of these people go to kindergarten, or Sunday School?
burnspbesq
@Steve:
All the cool kids know it’s the Patriot League lacrosse tournament. Not sure why you don’t.
AA+ Bonds
@Steve in DC:
So what you are saying is “yes FTD you are exactly right about me”
Mnemosyne
@Cato:
Yes, Mitt Romney is far too serious to sing or dance in public. Good one.
Tony J
Well, it’s the odd thing isn’t it?
After decades of American Presidents being viewed by the outside world as either insane, corrupt, sleazy, boring or a mix of all of the above, America finally has a President that can actually – be – cool, without having faux-cool thrust upon him by a deeply uncool MSM. Imagine how effective a President like Obama could be on the foreign stage if his every move wasn’t first run past the shredding bombardment of “How will the GOP and the Media undermine this?” discussions focused on domestic American politics, which are, as you all keep on telling – and showing – me beyond insane.
We ferrin types know the difference, and it’s pretty striking. Chalk this up to another victory for the Power of Money over Country.
jl
I for one think that getting publicly confused over the different meanings of ‘cool’ is an excellent use of the Reason Magazine editors’ time.
The communist glibertarian Cole is clearly using this supposedly miserable lefty blog to secret code signal them that they are making fools of themselves. That’s right, Cole is secretly coaching them, giving them aid and comfort!
Wake up sheeples!
/snark (added just in case, but it would be ‘cool’ if Cole chewed me out for this comment.)
Heliopause
Yes it is, but most of the cool is flowing from Nichelle Nichols.
Chuck Butcher
so the troll is here to tell us that the guy whose stands depend decade, yearly, monthly, weekly, and sometimes daily on whatever is convenient is the “serious man.” The stand we can be sure of that he’s serious about is that he is entitled to be President.
There is the matter of someone using the name of a Roman… suppose Roman culture/politics embodies their ideals? Hmmmm
jl
Also, Welch apparently did not read his Huck Finn very carefully in HS:
Here is Huck Finn’s alky no account bum pappy talking:
” And to see the cool way of that n*gg*r why, he wouldn’t a give me the road if I hadn’t shoved him out o’ the way. I says to the people, why ain’t this n*gg*r put up at auction and sold? that’s what I want to know. ”
So, there you have noxious inappropriate ‘cool’ness bothering upstanding drunks, with a proposal for an innovative free market solution, and Welch missed it.
And finally, just reminded above, how, the more things change the more they stay the same, from Huck Finn:
” Whenever his liquor begun to work he most always went for the govment”
/addsnarktaghere
Steve
@burnspbesq: Well I wasn’t intending to put down the Patriot League, that’s for sure. As a Big Ten alum I consider all those little schools to be irredeemably precious. Like, squeee.
jl
Oops, wrong thread. See correct thread above for notes on bad popes.
burnspbesq
@Steve:
Those schools actually still have student-athletes. Colgate has had at least one year recently where they had a 100 percent graduation rate.
FlipYrWhig
@burnspbesq: I wish we could separate “college sports” at the bigtime level from colleges. The two have so little to do with one another, and millions of dollars get pumped into the sick system never to be shared with the actual athletes producing the value in the first place. It’s toxic. College students playing sports against each other is great. Colleges hiring short-serving ringers to play against other colleges’ short-serving ringers is grotesque. YMMV, and to most of the rest of America, it Vs a hell of a lot.
The Sailor
@Brachiator: “Mirren is great enough an actress to pull of a good Rand.”
She would have to stand in line after all the wingnuts are finished.
The Sailor
@Steve in DC: “part of the Bush HIV/AIDS initiative”
Oh, stop you’re killing me!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Are either of those links to “Who Let the Dogs Out”? I am too afeared to click.
Omnes Omnibus
@burnspbesq:
Not a Lax guy meyself, but I am a D-III type.
Darkrose
As a black geek girl, that last photo is pretty much my standard for cool.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not tellin’.
Mnemosyne
Also, too, why is this thread generating ads for gay cruises?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Villago Delenda Est
That photo is parsecs beyond cool. I mean, the only way it could be enhanced is if Leonard Nimoy AND Tim Russ were both in the photo with the two of them, with ears on.
The prophet Nostradumbass
What that leather coat reminds me of is Bernie Koppell as Siegfried in “Get Smart”.
Ronbo
Cool? Huh, here I am thinking that an improving economy would be cool.
Yes, I know, it is failing slower than it was failing – but it is still falling. 44,000,000 Americans will be unemployeed on election day. Some people are genetically gullible.
Ronbo
@Mnemosyne: Why is it that bigotry still abounds? Not that there is anything wrong with that? It’s still bigotry. Imagine yourself saying, why does this generate black ads. Bias runs deep.
Kolohe
For almost a century now, Nixon excepted, the cooler person has always won any given Presidential election. I don’t imagine this year being any different.
Which, as an aside, shows how really bad Michael Dukakis was – he made *George Bush Sr* look cool.