I sense creeping Galtism amongst the FP crew, but perhaps some of you are feeling more communitarian.
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I sense creeping Galtism amongst the FP crew, but perhaps some of you are feeling more communitarian.
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Mike Kay (True Grit)
Happy New Year?
Any New Year’s resolutions? Mine is to be more assertive.
Evolved Deep Southerner
If y’all want some lessons in Going Galt, you need to get with Larison.
He hasn’t put up a new post at Eunomia since the 21st gloating about New START and how foolish Kyl, Palin, Romney and the gang looked. That may be on purpose, though, as much as he talked about New START and the stupidity of its opponents.
Still, when he decides to Go Galt, by God he has no trouble doing it, unlike Mr. Cole. None of this “Fuck y’all, I’m gone for a while” only to come back and post 45 minutes later.
DJShay
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. They always get broken, then I feel guilty for the rest of the year. I day at a time is my motto.
LGRooney
Most of the folks have left work here. The others are milling about in cubicles talking about nothing. No one is visiting my office.
LGRooney
@DJShay: So make a resolution, break it the next day, and then resolve each of the next 363 days not to feel guilty!
Chyron HR
I liked that King of the Hill episode where Bobby got Galt and had to ride around on the little scooter.
Shinobi
I’m still capitalistically stuck in the stupid office. It’s as if we aren’t all just sitting here wishing we could leave or something.
Mike Kay (True Grit)
@LGRooney:
nobody likes visiting the dentist.
on the other hand, you could pull a Palin and put on a tight mini-skirt with some sexy heels, that usually reels in all the guys.
DJShay
@LGRooney: It’s a plan!!
freelancer
Driftglass linked to someguy I don’t read who did a Swift Memorial Roundup of 2010, which is worth checking out. One of the posts mentioned was Cole’s nutshelling of Wingnut Wurlitzers/Puke Funnel, media cycles, and how American Politics works. That post is amazing.
Redshirt
I’m so busy!
FlipYrWhig
@Chyron HR: From eating at the New York-style deli!
DJShay
I’m still at work, but fixin to leave. So, in the 5 minutes it will take me to get to my car and get to my apt (l live right across the street from my job) here’s yet another right wing freak out. This time they’re boycotting Justin Bieber. Yeah. That guy:
Wow. That would indeed be something if it was was real. What Bieber said I mean. Apparently the Tiger Beat interview was a hoax. Yeah. I’m SHOCKED that RWNJs would believe a hoax.
LGRooney
@Mike Kay (True Grit): I’m not particularly interested in reeling in the guys to my office and I am quite certain that my legs, even if I shaved them, would not be much of a draw even in heels. Of course, if I did something to draw in the women, my wife would be cheesed – and she would find out – and I don’t want that headache. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Suffern ACE
I want to start baking again this year, but I also need to lose 40 pounds. I’m wondering how to do both…
kindness
resolutions? What like I now have to promise myself not to vote republican? That I’ll lose 20 lbs? That I’ll quit sniffing model glue?
Well…..I resolve to have as much fun as humanly possible on New Years Eve watching the reincarnated Grateful Dead in SF.
Sadly, I’m the designated driver…..does that mean I can’t do psycadelics? (or learn to spell properly)
LGRooney
@DJShay: Unless you call the highway a street, want to explain why you drive that far? Are you in LA?
schrodinger's cat
Where is our esteemed blog host? Or has Tunch finally got rid of him and escaped to warmer climes?
I think I have spotted Tunch in disguise
CADoc
I too am longing to go home. This is the slowest time of the year, I guess because people leave town and the real macho viruses have not yet arrived. In March when the true flu season and allergy season hit at the same time, I’ll be looking back fondly to this week.
LGRooney
@Suffern ACE: If you’re any good, sell it! You can get your fix dipping your finger the batter and make money on the rest! Or, don’t use a mixer or blender or food processor or kneader… just do it by hand. It’s a decent little work out.
Mike Kay (True Grit)
@LGRooney: that’s so unfair. guys actually have to be good looking to reel in chicks, were as women only have to dress scantly and wear falsies.
DJShay
@LGRooney: LOL! Right across the street is far? I’ve been on the same tank of gas for a month :-)
LGRooney
@Mike Kay (True Grit): I’d second that resolution but need to check with my wife first to see what mine is.
Bulworth
I can’t believe I’m in the office today…Coulda, woulda, shoulda gone Galt.
MikeJ
@Suffern ACE: Bake, but bake badly.
LGRooney
@DJShay: A joke, son! You’re built too low to the ground! The fast ones go over your head! You’ve got to keep your eye on the ball! Eye… ball. Eyeball! Almost had a gag… joke, that is.
cathyx
@Suffern ACE: Bake and donate to a soup kitchen.
LGRooney
@Mike Kay (True Grit): That’s only because we men are such idiots to go gaga so simply. As long as we keep falling for it, the women will keep doing it to us.
Suffern ACE
@MikeJ: I actually think that might work. I’ll call it “experimenting.” (I wonder what would happen if I added two extra cups of flour and left out the sugar…hmmm)
General Stuck
I hereby refudiate your communitarian .
And why does FF redline “refudiate” when it is now an official Palin Speak. Don’t those geek hippies watch the news?
LGRooney
@Suffern ACE: Don’t just leave out the sugar, put in some unsweetened cocoa!
freelancer
THANK YOU, Cole, for the new rotating header. I don’t know when it got added to the mix, but it’s freaking perfect. Also, as a member of your readership, I must say, all your blog are belong to us.
D-Chance.
I sense creeping Galtism amongst the FP crew,
Unfortunately, not enough of them. The C-lister is still active, it seems…
gbear
The week between Christmas and New Years always feels lost in a fog. I’ve been at work all week and have actually gotten a lot done, but I’m falling off a cliff this afternoon. When I get home, the car may just sit in the garage until monday.
One of my fave guilty pleasure dumb web sites, ‘Happy Chair is Happy’ went galt a couple weeks ago. It had been sliding downhill a bit but I still has a sad to see it go away.
Gravenstone
@D-Chance.:
Yup, you chimed in right on schedule…
R-Jud
I am done with work for 2010. I am making this, plus some homemade shortbread, for a Hogmanay-themed house party tomorrow night and two of these, which someone here linked to a while back, for lunch the following day.
JPL
@schrodinger’s cat: lol.. I hope the blog host sees that .
schrodinger's cat
@JPL: I love that photo, the kitteh looks so Zen, with the cabbage leaf over his head.
As if he is saying, human, I look cooler than you even with this cabbage leaf over my head.
P.S. Have you noticed the kitteh’s tail? definitely Tunch…
asiangrrlMN
@Mike Kay (True Grit): Ha! You funny.
@DJShay: I don’t make resolutions any more, either, for the same reason. Instead, I set up the goals I want to meet for the year and the steps I will take to meet said goals. Oh, and I brood about what I didn’t do in the current year. Good times.
schrodinger's cat
@asiangrrlMN: Did you check out the photo I posted, in my earlier comment? I think you will like it.
Wiesman
I have a bleg. (Or whatever it is called when someone begs for something in the comments of someone else’s blog.)
I belong to a political book club and the book we are reading now is “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt. Apparently this book is a Libertarian manifesto even more revered than Atlas Shrugged.
Anyway, I already have thought up some of my own criticisms of the book (lack of empiricism, straw man arguments, the assumption that because something should happen eventually that it will happen quickly enough to matter) but I would love to find any good rebuttals to the arguments made in the book. Teh Google has not been helpful, believe it or not.
Any help appreciated.
kdaug
@Mike Kay (True Grit):
kdaug
@kdaug: @kdaug: I mean, not to you personally, but just as an example of how to be assertive.
kdaug
@kdaug: Not that I meant to hurt anyone’s feelings.
Montysano
So, a couple of months ago, I bought a ’95 Volvo 940 for $1K. It’s the 5th red-block Volvo that we’ve owned, and it was the sweetest.
This morning, a young woman sailed through a stop sign and I nailed her. No injuries, thankfully. Was texting involved? Can’t prove it, but I’d bet on it. Her Kia is fucked. My car had both airbags deployed and the windshield broke. I scooped up some parts off of the street, started it, and drove the 4 blocks back to my house. But I’m sure it’s totaled, which is a damn shame.
I see massive amounts of Pinot and a trip out back to the shed in my near future.
kdaug
@kdaug: If I did hurt your feelings, I certainly didn’t mean to. You’ve always seemed like a nice enough guy in my book.
kdaug
@kdaug: And now I’m thinking I never should have written that post at all.
kdaug
@kdaug: I’m sorry.
kdaug
@kdaug: Please don’t hate me.
El Cid
Some time way way back I did something on the FireDogLake site (I don’t know, signed up for a list, donated money to a candidate, whatever).
So I still get these e-mails. I get a ton of e-mails from political things and websites and only read a few.
This one did in fact make what sounds to me to be some fairly grandiose claims, of course, depending on whether or not it’s meant to say that that website and its authors did these or progressives / whoever in general were those who achieved this list.
Sounds to me like the former. Make your own mind up.
I don’t know about the foreclosure fraud reporting. I wouldn’t know who uncovered that to some greater degree.
Maybe the FireDogLake website and readers and activists really did all those things. I would think that this would have been major national if not international news, but I guess you never know, right?
General Stuck
@kdaug:
LOL, you may need some lessons. Post assertive profuse apology is a step forward, then 12 steps back.
agrippa
maximum galtism:
Ayn Rand stated, “I am not going to die, the world is coming to an end.”
pure black humor.
JimK
WoooHoooo! An Albuquerque Low for Colorado! It’s about time, worked outside for 25 years, the one winter inside-NO SNOW! Well, Well.
freelancer
@kdaug:
@kdaug:
@kdaug:
No more “whatever you’re having” for you.
General Stuck
@El Cid:
Could be some of these things they did. But I personally beat back the banks from profiting off student loans. Me and my friend Magoo.
kdaug
@freelancer:
I’m sorry.
I guess I just don’t do “assertive” very well.
Asshole.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Suffern ACE:
Bake really badly.
El Cid
@General Stuck: You know what they say about success having a thousand fathers. On the other hand…
JPL
@kdaug: It was funny though.
kdaug
@JPL: I aim to please.
Anoniminous
@Wiesman:
This, will give you a starting point.
Found the link for the above here.
Steve Keen has some good stuff, although nothing I could find – in a quick skim – specifically on Hazlitt.
One problem with discussing economics with the Right Wing is, by-and-large, they haven’t actually sat down and read the books they so glibly mis-quote. And they certainly haven’t read any criticisms of their vaunted ideas. If they had they’d know the re-establishment of the Gold Standard in 1873 sent the US economy into a 30 year recession, ultimately giving rise to William Jenning Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech.
Mojotron
saw this over at Sully’s site and laughed.
Mike Kay (True Grit)
@kdaug: tease :^(
Ab_Normal
@Wiesman: I found this by Brad DeLong:
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/04/economics_in_on.html
by checking Mike Huben’s Critiques of Libertarianism
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html
Mike Kay (True Grit)
@El Cid:
I’m Shocked! I’m Shocked!
Her royal highness herself posted on July 1st that Pelosi would ram social security cuts down our throats during the lame-duck session. Of course Pelosi’s repeated denials didn’t extinguish the conspiracy theory.
Nevertheless, like a grifter, her claims are contradictory. She takes credit for stopping social security cuts, yet she’s currently circulating claims that cuts will happen in the state of the union address.
but I think my favorite was when she claimed to have personally led the impending primary defeat of blanche lincoln on HuffPo a couple of weeks before the actual election occurred. Of course, the beauty of a self-reinforcing echo chamber is never having to peel the egg of your face. also too, never dance on a grave before the funeral.
ruemara
@Suffern ACE:
Do what I do. Bake, and fatten your friends and co-workers.
Mike Kay (Christine O'Donnell's Co-Witch)
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Wiesman
Thanks to Anonimous and Ab_Normal. I’ll take a look at those links.