tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post3000534279725520250..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Selective ConcernSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-60360418515949830282012-03-02T09:33:59.795-06:002012-03-02T09:33:59.795-06:00My only criticism is that it sounded a little too ...My only criticism is that it sounded a little too intelligent. <br /><br />Yes, let's do it--let's have "McArdle for a day" guest posts on Rand's birthday.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-12052741048146700362012-03-02T07:23:15.209-06:002012-03-02T07:23:15.209-06:00thanks, aimai.
I thought I could just rattle on a...thanks, aimai.<br /><br />I thought I could just rattle on and on, but maintaining that level of incoherence is tiring.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-3645706815224147902012-03-02T07:00:49.471-06:002012-03-02T07:00:49.471-06:00[misused french word here]
[attempt at writing li...[misused french word here]<br /><br />[attempt at writing like an 18th century british writer]<br /><br />[concern troll]<br /><br />[badly used or made-up statistic]<br /><br />[oh but if liberals weren't so annoying, i might actually sympathize]<br /><br />[forgets to vote for someone after supporting someone]<br /><br />[badly screws up something basic. e.g. kitchen update, car registration]<br /><br />[sucks off the rich]<br /><br />[bomb thrown]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-82710534464352728772012-03-02T05:46:18.086-06:002012-03-02T05:46:18.086-06:00I can't believe no one answered the question &...I can't believe no one answered the question "Could we get the workforce we need for less" appropriately!<br /><br />Q: "Could we get the workforce we need for less?"<br />A: "Bring back Slavery."<br /><br />Done and Done.<br /><br />Oh, and by the way Downpuppy (go somerville!) your parody was excellent. It was slightly too robust and masculine for Megan. She waffles more and uses a slightly more injured and more in sorrow than in anger tone but I think you were pretty much indistinguishable from most of her posts.<br /><br />aimaiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-18443890305922139632012-03-01T18:33:35.550-06:002012-03-01T18:33:35.550-06:00My entry in the contest is up -
http://downpuppy.b...My entry in the contest is up -<br />http://downpuppy.blogspot.com/2012/03/pay-me-bradley.htmlDownpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-54686203981281546862012-03-01T14:56:51.720-06:002012-03-01T14:56:51.720-06:00If only I had that Kock/Fox daily talking points m...If only I had that Kock/Fox daily talking points memo.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4999756113659250782012-03-01T14:56:10.812-06:002012-03-01T14:56:10.812-06:00I've often thought I could do better propagand...I've often thought I could do better propaganda than ArgleBargle, or most of the wingers. I'll give it a try... maybe its much harder than it looks?Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-42255025257367392432012-03-01T14:28:47.950-06:002012-03-01T14:28:47.950-06:00aimai,
I'm thinking of a contest like "Wr...aimai,<br /><i>I'm thinking of a contest like "Write Like McCardle Day" </i><br />What a brilliant idea. In fact, March 6th - the anniversary of Ayn Rand's death - is almost upon, what do you people say we make a party of it?bulbulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14505565281151328789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-85966269756525332062012-03-01T14:13:32.218-06:002012-03-01T14:13:32.218-06:00LC re basta:
Actually, it's just a standard 3...LC re basta:<br /><br />Actually, it's just a standard 3rd person singular present tense of <a href="http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_bastare.htm" rel="nofollow">bastare</a> = "to suffice, to be enough". Nothing really slangy about.bulbulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14505565281151328789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-90806353542304230442012-03-01T14:10:11.621-06:002012-03-01T14:10:11.621-06:00"Could we get the workforce we need for less?..."Could we get the workforce we need for less?"<br />Rarely is this question asked about CEOs.bulbulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14505565281151328789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-82541304115221311132012-03-01T13:31:37.950-06:002012-03-01T13:31:37.950-06:00If we applied Megan's so-called criteria to th...If we applied Megan's so-called criteria to the private sector, a hell of a lot of Wall Street bankers would be out on their asses with nothing but their underwear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-57885686519338158682012-03-01T08:18:25.250-06:002012-03-01T08:18:25.250-06:00It's sad that unless you've read McArdle s...It's sad that unless you've read McArdle since the Iraq War era, newcomers don't get a feel for the depth of her hypocrisy and shrug it off because they haven't read her screeds on how poor people waste their money. The poor should just move (as if it's easy!) if they can't afford it.<br /><br />The chutzpah of a woman who writes that New Yorkers she knew might spend a third of their incomes on a place to live! A THIRD for the benefits of living in a city with mass transit and other benefits. So did she ask why can't they just move to the suburbs?! No.<br /><br />And the you see how much people spend on just living these days in the rest of America.<br />http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-91559526254377988822012-03-01T06:10:03.549-06:002012-03-01T06:10:03.549-06:00Yeah, she's becoming a parody of herself. And...Yeah, she's becoming a parody of herself. And it'd be interesting to know how many of her clicks are haters, because that's what she's there for-- to attract viewers and jack up the eyeball count. She may believe in herself, maybe not, but her owners are just laughing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-61922198099783818002012-02-29T23:52:51.953-06:002012-02-29T23:52:51.953-06:00Oh man that government worker quote was from like ...Oh man that government worker quote was from like years ago right she couldn't be this brazen in her-<br /><br />LAST FUCKING MONTH? Jesus Christ.Benhttp://noompa.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-66728984361769800322012-02-29T23:46:19.827-06:002012-02-29T23:46:19.827-06:00A team of howler monkeys in Bangalore could produc...A team of howler monkeys in Bangalore could produce inane bullshit columns for far less than it costs to feed McMegan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-87181946678400367262012-02-29T20:58:13.820-06:002012-02-29T20:58:13.820-06:00According to the BLS the proportion of the work fo...According to the BLS the proportion of the work force in government (state, local and federal) is the same in 2010 as in 1960. <br />But surely, we could make do with fewer, cheaper workers. Besides, they probably vote for Democrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-9383353140888947252012-02-29T19:46:30.896-06:002012-02-29T19:46:30.896-06:00What the hell does "Basta!" mean, anyway...<i>What the hell does "Basta!" mean, anyway?</i><br /><br />It's an Italian saying (slang-y, I think--I am working from context only) that means roughly "Enough!" or "Quit it!" or words to that effect.Lurking Canadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-6275900385268084542012-02-29T19:34:42.434-06:002012-02-29T19:34:42.434-06:00I was going to say, before I hit post, that Susan ...I was going to say, before I hit post, that Susan is right that Megan continues to fail to grasp that she, like the WSJ's suffering half-illionaires, is just a paycheck away from disaster. She sucks up to the truly wealthy but she will never be in that elite crowd. They can outsource her in a Washington Minute (substantially slower than a New York Minute but, nevertheless, it grinds exceeedingly small). <br /><br />Perhaps the most successful way of demonstrating this would be to run a parody contest/blog site, like Altmouse of sainted memory, where hundreds of people could write a McCardle like essay every day...for free. We could submit it to the owners and stockholders of the Atlantic and undercut the bitch (also known as scabbing). I'd love to see McCardle lose her job to a consortium of freelance parodists. They'd hire another McCArdle as soon as we went on Galtian strike and refuse dto produce bullshit on demand. But she would be out on her skinny ass in the meantime and that would be well worth it.<br /><br />I'm thinking of a contest like "Write Like McCardle Day" in which her hundreds of franimeies (fans plus enemies) each take a crack at blogging like McCardle.<br /><br /><br /><br />aimaiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-70940536880359923272012-02-29T19:29:23.217-06:002012-02-29T19:29:23.217-06:00Its just unfuckingbelievable. You know? Megan is n...Its just unfuckingbelievable. You know? Megan is now more self parodic than an Onion episode.<br /><br />aimaiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-79573985507767830802012-02-29T19:29:03.920-06:002012-02-29T19:29:03.920-06:00What the hell does "Basta!" mean, anyway...What the hell does "Basta!" mean, anyway?<br /><br />-aws?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-73104361992823004352012-02-29T19:09:39.482-06:002012-02-29T19:09:39.482-06:00Megan is not only more vile than we imagine. She ...Megan is not only more vile than we imagine. She is more vile than we CAN imagine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-28630798877624292062012-02-29T18:19:30.294-06:002012-02-29T18:19:30.294-06:00Maybe aimai's right and this is all an elabora...Maybe aimai's right and this is all an elaborate joke, a performance. Someone is just pretending to be "Megan McArdle," clueless tool of the elite.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-28109198434861824892012-02-29T18:14:27.976-06:002012-02-29T18:14:27.976-06:00it is quite astonishing, though, that she followed...it is quite astonishing, though, that she followed up the hand-wringing concern for six-figure gadabouts with a finger-wagging criticism of lower-middle-class wage slaves who actually work for a living.<br /><br />I think she is actually having us on; amazingly deft and subtle performance art. It has to be.<br /><br />Or, as Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-15333745246280786312012-02-29T18:10:56.681-06:002012-02-29T18:10:56.681-06:00the ACTUAL right question is why don't private...the ACTUAL right question is why don't private sector workers make a living wage as do union and government workers, and how can we arrange for them to do so?<br /><br /><i>Obviously money shouldn't be horribly wasted the way it is in the Military & on Politicians Pay</i><br /><br />Or at formerly respectable magazines like the Atlantic.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-48554825019025563102012-02-29T17:45:58.715-06:002012-02-29T17:45:58.715-06:00... "Could we get the workforce we need for l...<i>... "Could we get the workforce we need for less?" At any rate, that's the right question if you view government programs as a means to provide services. If you primarily view them as existing for the benefit of the people they employ...</i><br /><br />What? Where does she get these vicious deranged notions? Do the Kocks send out a daily memo chock full of reeking garbage for her to pick thru and elaborate upon in her unique simpleton way?<br /><br />Government is supposed to DO A GOOD JOB at whatever they do, not "save money". Obviously money shouldn't be horribly wasted the way it is in the Military & on Politicians Pay (she doesn't mention <i>their</i> way-too-high paychecks and LIFETIME benefits after working a couple of years).<br /><br />Government spending is for the benefit of American people, and that happens to include Americans who work directly for the Government. And if she wasn't a halfwit, she'd know that government should be increasing spending on their employes' pay & benefits. THAT would help ease the Depression were stuck in thanks to "austerity".<br /><br />This woman makes me absolutely sick with disgust.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.com