tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post61134542018833455..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: A DichotomySusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-13414067746955279142012-05-02T00:52:23.162-05:002012-05-02T00:52:23.162-05:00Heh. It's times like this (well, any time'...Heh. It's times like this (well, any time's a good time, actually) to bear in mind where JoGo came from and how he got to where he is: he rode his mama's coattails. <br /><br />And what piece o' work Lucianne Goldberg is/was...counseled Linda Tripp to befriend Monica Lewinsky and con as much gossip about Bill Clinton as she could (by hook or by crook, including illegal wiretapping). Then, after Mama G. and Matt Drudge had set up the New Media Gravy Train (makes its own sauce!) fueled by a limitless thirst for all things Monica, <br />Sonny Boy waddled up to the feeding trough, sucked in a tummyful of recycled sludge, tacked his byline on the effluvium that came out the other end, and called out:<br /><br />"Mama, look what I did all by myself! Now I can wear big-boy pants."freq flagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-24579188007634685112012-04-29T22:49:10.608-05:002012-04-29T22:49:10.608-05:00Maybe NR hired some really smart editor?
You mean...<i>Maybe NR hired some really smart editor?</i><br /><br />You meant to say, "Maybe Jonah's ratfucker mommy hired..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-17560576184878989162012-04-27T19:26:52.650-05:002012-04-27T19:26:52.650-05:00Scott identifies and discusses four conditions com...Scott identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters. Let's see if they apply to Arizona's "arbitrary deportation of necessary labor" law:<br /><br />Administrative ordering of nature and society by the state - check<br /><br />A "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life - do Charles Murray-esque claims about the undesirability and impossibility of assimilating "those people" count here? As well as Jonah's claims that "you can't have a libertarian immigration policy and a liberal welfare state, because . . . math!"? I think so. Check.<br /> <br />A willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions - there's a big check <br /><br />A prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans - and an even bigger one! <br /><br />Loosen your belt and relax, Jonah, you win the prize! Oh, I see you already *faaaarrrrrrrrrrrtt*Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-64886439833137310682012-04-27T18:52:09.746-05:002012-04-27T18:52:09.746-05:00Arrgh, that should have read:
Not enough farrrrr...Arrgh, that should have read: <br /><br />Not enough <i>farrrrrrrrrrt</i> for it to be Goldberg's work. Also, somebody check the motherfucking kerning.<br /><br />- spencerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-54664133957556545002012-04-27T18:51:25.952-05:002012-04-27T18:51:25.952-05:00Not enough for it to be Goldberg's work. Also...Not enough for it to be Goldberg's work. Also, somebody check the motherfucking kerning.<br /><br />- spencerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-22095137591694273862012-04-27T11:53:06.198-05:002012-04-27T11:53:06.198-05:00Around the world, according to Scott, states have ...<i>Around the world, according to Scott, states have historically seen nomadic peoples, herdsmen, slash-and-burn hill people, Gypsies, hunter-gatherers, vagrants, and runaway slaves and serfs as problems to be solved.</i><br /><br />That's odd, because from my observations, it's generally been people complaining to their government officials to do something about vagrants, illegal immigrants, nomadic types and so forth. In other words, "the State" is simply doing what its citizens demand that it to do.Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-51062294824499484522012-04-27T11:51:16.213-05:002012-04-27T11:51:16.213-05:00The Constitution lists three federal crimes — trea...<i>The Constitution lists three federal crimes — treason, piracy, and counterfeiting </i><br /><br />And yet the Republican party has not been outlawed.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-21741009229106115612012-04-27T11:46:07.924-05:002012-04-27T11:46:07.924-05:00Finally, because Goldberg's combination of laz...Finally, because Goldberg's combination of laziness and asshattery is endlessly funny to me: Scott's argument is that the state's "vision" and its drive to make its subjects "legible" is deeply authoritarian. The argument has fuck all to do with the Arizona immigration laws, and more to do with urban planning, but whatever, Goldberg is excusing/endorsing something Scott identifies as the most distilled forms of authoritarianism modernity has to offer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-36924729857041761892012-04-27T11:42:09.978-05:002012-04-27T11:42:09.978-05:00Oh, it's pure NR. Hatin' & fearin'...Oh, it's pure NR. Hatin' & fearin' the lazy brown people dressed up in slightly refined language:<br /><br />"it’s simply unsustainable to have a libertarian immigration policy and a liberal welfare state. "<br /><br />Because, you know, 11 million undocumenteds aren't here to work, they're here to get all those generous welfare benefits (that they can't get anyhow).Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-68583781424826632252012-04-27T11:29:29.320-05:002012-04-27T11:29:29.320-05:00I can't stop LOLing. Again, from page two of t...I can't stop LOLing. Again, from page two of that book: "The premodern state was, in many crucial respects, partially blind..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50604630798618951142012-04-27T11:27:32.211-05:002012-04-27T11:27:32.211-05:00...and here you go: I searched Seeing Like a State......and here you go: I <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Like-State-Institution-University/dp/0300078153#reader_0300078153" rel="nofollow">searched Seeing Like a State</a> with the Amazon "Look Inside" feature for "sedentarization" and what Goldberg is talking about shows up on page two.<br /><br />Even at his most intelligent-sounding, Goldberg is the most predictably lazy fuckhead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-72394577447371336882012-04-27T11:23:32.098-05:002012-04-27T11:23:32.098-05:00This is a really good catch, because no, it's ...This is a really good catch, because no, it's basically not believable that the Doughmeister wrote such a measured, sophisticated thing all by himself. Maybe NR hired some really smart editor?<br /><br />The only thing that makes me think it really is Goldberg is the characterization of Seeing Like a State. I haven't read it, but it doesn't seem at all to have to do with states "solving" the "problem" of nomadic people, and if I had to guess, I'd say Goldberg got that from something in the first five pages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com