tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post3140106525095761107..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Children Of A Corporate GodSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-43980938841627461552011-02-23T00:37:32.824-06:002011-02-23T00:37:32.824-06:00I like the word egregious as well but I am always ...I like the word egregious as well but I am always keen to add a new word and I am now looking for any opportunity to use compulsed. <br /><br />Some years ago a friend pointed out that simple words become complicated as people lose track of them. The house was burgled becomes The house was burglarized. I am a burglar becomes I am a burglarizationist. <br /><br />So I am also looking for a chance to use the world compulsated, compulsationized and so on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-78424164661723083432011-02-17T10:21:05.106-06:002011-02-17T10:21:05.106-06:00Addendum:
It's also odd how her blogging caree...Addendum:<br />It's also odd how her blogging career has mimicked Ayn Rand's real life though.<br /><br />Rand surrounded herself with acolytes that she would demand follow her like a religion instead of arguments. Then denying science about lung cancer and cigarettes being related and then dying of lung cancer alone. I think Johann Hari, among others, has written some good pieces about Rand, but what's sad is how Megan follows the model with her blog followers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-88373583542966528402011-02-17T10:16:31.237-06:002011-02-17T10:16:31.237-06:00Brad, I know we don't go on about the topic, b...Brad, I know we don't go on about the topic, but she's claims her old moniker Jane Galt came about because she was trolling someone, not because she was an Objectivist.<br /><br />Childishness is just how she operates. She'll post in a fit of pique, be wrong, double down and then post about how OTHER people have bias and that it affects what they write. Then she'll blithely ignore that it ever happened, and if she has to apologize, she'll trash liberal strawmen for being wrong also.<br /><br />How embarrassing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-2020371634927464782011-02-16T19:12:37.327-06:002011-02-16T19:12:37.327-06:00Wow, McMegan must really have a stick up her arse ...Wow, McMegan must really have a stick up her arse concerning Krugman to put so much effort into embarrassing herself. Cowen and Krugman casually appeal to commonplace knowledge of the transition from iceboxes to refrigerators, buggies to automobiles, outhouses to flush toilets, and the like. Megan, always looking for an opportunity to miss the forest for the trees, sees the chance to use her deep understanding of kitchen status objects to play gotcha with people she clearly envies. After all, pots have gotten <i>so</i> much shinier in the past sixty years. Take that, Mr. Nobel Laureate! It's not so much the factual error--par for the course with McArdle--so much as the sheer childishness that shines through.Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-49989269384397544982011-02-16T13:12:15.927-06:002011-02-16T13:12:15.927-06:00"It's amazing that McArdle can be wrong l..."<i>It's amazing that McArdle can be wrong like this on kitchen utensils as she is on less unimportant stuff.</i>"<br /><br /><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness" rel="nofollow">Fractal wrongness</a>!Dan S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-43448259247188432132011-02-16T11:12:14.223-06:002011-02-16T11:12:14.223-06:00And why does the WSJ take Tom's side?
Better ...And why does the WSJ take Tom's side?<br /><br />Better pictures, natch.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-48867311703883012342011-02-16T10:03:30.106-06:002011-02-16T10:03:30.106-06:00Wow, the ultimate humiliation for McMeg - to be ex...Wow, the ultimate humiliation for McMeg - to be exposed as a blustering no-nothing in the pages of the holy WSJ. That <i>had</i> to hurt.<br /><br />And of course, the crowning irony: M.C. Megan could lie about health care, war, the hollowing out of the economy, and the creation of a vast secret torture/surveillance state, and everything's fine, but say something stupid about <i>kitchen appliances</i>, and you get called out by name in the WSJ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-29226010238801103342011-02-16T08:27:42.929-06:002011-02-16T08:27:42.929-06:00My eyes glazed over in her response to Levenson...My eyes glazed over in her response to Levenson's most excellent post, so I've no idea how she defended herself, but this early sentence stood out and made me laugh:<br /><br />"I am of course not a historian of kitchens."<br /><br />1) No shit, Sherlock. Despite your pretentions, I doubt you know a butter knife from a spatula.<br /><br />2) But! You spent ALL DAY researching!<br /><br />What is it going to take for this incompetent moron to get fired from journalism?Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-25059782792911191322011-02-16T07:36:07.663-06:002011-02-16T07:36:07.663-06:00Perhaps you shouldn't mention piercing insight...Perhaps you shouldn't mention piercing insights quite so soon after a passing kidney stone.fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-49543301332699811552011-02-16T02:11:15.389-06:002011-02-16T02:11:15.389-06:00I'm guessing that the verve of this post means...I'm guessing that the verve of this post means you're back to full health. Congratulations on that as well as on the piercing insights. They made my morning !<br /><br />RofeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-65134948076835364232011-02-15T19:32:21.735-06:002011-02-15T19:32:21.735-06:00boarding school invective
I just love that term.<i>boarding school invective</i><br /><br />I just love that term.Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-11374241410937503502011-02-15T19:10:19.420-06:002011-02-15T19:10:19.420-06:00Doc Amazing, you're right but I like the word,...Doc Amazing, you're right but I like the word, imaginary though it may be. I'll call it artistic license.<br /><br />Thanks, anon.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-6154901431392306042011-02-15T18:13:16.950-06:002011-02-15T18:13:16.950-06:00It's amazing that McArdle can be wrong like th...It's amazing that McArdle can be wrong like this on kitchen utensils as she is on less unimportant stuff. Good on you for your persistence, Susan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-18970953547717866912011-02-15T17:48:47.511-06:002011-02-15T17:48:47.511-06:00she is compulsed to defend it
Not to be pedantic,...she is compulsed to defend it<br /><br />Not to be pedantic, but I think that would be "compelled".DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.com