tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post8776971037153844882..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Bar NoneSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-59709648607698077602010-12-01T07:51:31.000-06:002010-12-01T07:51:31.000-06:00Fish, yes, I think you're right.Fish, yes, I think you're right.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-59414762696767719782010-11-30T16:42:39.114-06:002010-11-30T16:42:39.114-06:00What's wrong with having your cake and eating ...What's wrong with having your cake and eating it too??? That's what Ms. McArdle would like to know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-63008457092035372452010-11-30T15:18:22.221-06:002010-11-30T15:18:22.221-06:00Libertarianism in theory always sounds great, but ...<i>Libertarianism in theory always sounds great, but in practice it is meaningless. </i><br /><br />Amen, sister. First, because, as in this case, it pretends society (i.e., other people) doesn't exist. "Look, I'm willing to succeed or fail strictly based on the use of my own talents. So everyone get out of my way." <br /><br />And also because in every case it pretends that other people in the past (i.e., history) never existed, either. "Okay, we'll all begin HERE, at the starting line. Then the gun will go off, and everyone will use their own talents to run as fast as they can, without outside help or interfer--Hey, wait a minute. Who are those people a hundred yards down the track already?" <br /><br />(Not mentioned: "And why do those people a hundred yards behind me have ball and chains affixed to their ankles?")Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-11460923474612476212010-11-30T14:29:40.558-06:002010-11-30T14:29:40.558-06:00"The engineer said he loved the house."
...<i>"The engineer said he loved the house."</i><br /><br />In this area, likely the inspector.fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-73629948607371106512010-11-30T14:01:19.657-06:002010-11-30T14:01:19.657-06:00Now I'm imagining Paul Krugman as Giles, Elzab...Now I'm imagining Paul Krugman as Giles, Elzabeth Warren as Buffy, and the IMF as the Watcher's Council.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-11761207648137240772010-11-30T13:57:38.835-06:002010-11-30T13:57:38.835-06:00What gets me about Megan's writing is that its...What gets me about Megan's writing is that its so terminally predictable: she is her class position. Her subtext *is* her text. I'm pretty sure I've said this before but she's Cordelia in the scene where Buffy can read people's minds and we discover that Cordelia's internal thoughts are her external statements. And the thing that is really funny about this is that it makes Megan's writing even more childish than her beliefs necessitate--she has no idea why she says what she says (she thinks her tastes and her dispositions (her "habitus" as Bourdieu would call it) is totally unique and personal but its utterly overdetermined by her social set and her particular moment in social time and space.<br /><br />aimaiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-78300641759333911122010-11-30T13:29:34.801-06:002010-11-30T13:29:34.801-06:00I think that's the previous tenant?I think that's the previous tenant?Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-38183632164731505212010-11-30T13:16:07.335-06:002010-11-30T13:16:07.335-06:00"The engineer said he loved the house."
..."The engineer said he loved the house."<br /><br />Is she talking about her husband? He's an engineer now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com