tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post8178410054597141078..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Best Wishes On Your EndeavorSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50437546614212000242011-12-02T18:50:22.759-06:002011-12-02T18:50:22.759-06:00It occurred to me that, all the authoritarian and ...It occurred to me that, all the authoritarian and libertarian bullshit aside, all McArdle is, is a snob. Or--worse--she aspires to be a snob.<br /><br />Hence the affected Britishisms ("daft"). Hence the faux-gourmet affectations with hi-priced appliances and pink salt, and the low-kwality results. Hence the forces she defends vs. those she attacks.<br /><br />Hence, too, the indifference to research, the "as far as I know" and "from what I can see" disclaimers, as though her authority should be enough. She doesn't want to explain, teach, or enlighten--i.e., to share. She wants to be admired and, from that standpoint, affirm in her own mind her membership in the elite.<br /><br />Period! It's that pathetic, yes. At a time when economics and finance have been transformed from background, esoteric abstract concerns to immediate, public, inescapable vectors of pathology, the Atlantic presents us with this bourgeois climber, who would rather allude to having dinner with a banker than explain what the banker has done.Mr.Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-61678364712565679832011-12-02T17:25:31.553-06:002011-12-02T17:25:31.553-06:00"McArdle said she and P. Suderman, boy house ...<i>"McArdle said she and P. Suderman, boy house toy, make over $300,00 a year[...]"</i><br /><br />Does he make his share of that by testing videogames, because, jesus, did you see his holiday gift list that McA posted? I guess I'm not a "gamer," but how does an adult with any sort of job (no matter how cushy) manage to piss away that kind of time on this stuff? I mean I used to play videogames when I was a teenager, but even then I didn't have the luxury of investing a fraction of the time that it looks like Suderman has spent on it.atatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-22012032603798473022011-12-02T15:05:57.385-06:002011-12-02T15:05:57.385-06:00It is funny to see her usual sycophants act a litt...It is funny to see her usual sycophants act a little confused and defensive when she crosses the libertarian line and acknowledges sexism in the workplace. They really don't know what to do.fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-46406610027322756732011-12-02T07:38:12.440-06:002011-12-02T07:38:12.440-06:00Also, I should note that she is a self-proclaimed ...Also, I should note that she is a self-proclaimed expert in obesity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4713321258519863712011-12-02T07:37:37.881-06:002011-12-02T07:37:37.881-06:00This is a woman who playacts as a housewife for he...This is a woman who playacts as a housewife for her political blogging guests when she has them over for dinner.<br /><br />*sigh*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-23200827039515115592011-12-01T21:42:00.048-06:002011-12-01T21:42:00.048-06:002. For their own personal good, women should stop...<i>2. For their own personal good, women should stop first, because if they keep talking, they do not strike a telling blow for feminism; they get labeled as an unbearably pushy and difficult sort of person.</i><br /><br />Megan McArdle, striking a telling blow for inaction.Freshly Squeezed Cynicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-52713452537641342182011-12-01T20:49:52.457-06:002011-12-01T20:49:52.457-06:00The poor don't need more food. Obesity is a pr...<i>The poor don't need more food. Obesity is a problem for the poor in America; except for people who are too screwed up to get food stamps (because they don't have an address), food insufficiency is not.</i><br /><br />McArdle, like many a well-paid hack, imagines food stamps providing a veritable Land of Cockaigne, where goodies drop into the gullets of the poor as they wallow in an stupor of sloth. <br /><br />http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Pieter_Bruegel_d._%C3%84._037.jpg<br /><br />Meanwhile, back in the real world, where I am a welfare caseworker, here are the maximum monthly food stamp limits in my county:<br /><br />One person: 200 dollars.<br />Two people: 367 dollars.<br />Three people: 526 dollars. <br /><br />And so on. These are the figures, by the way, in a county with the highest per capita income in the state (Pennsylvania). <br /><br />Therefore someone living alone and with no income must thrive on about seven dollars of food a day. A jobless parent and a child must make do on about twelve bucks a day.<br /><br />It isn't the poor who are living in a daydream of idleness: if it's a vacuous sense of entitlement attitude that you seek, look no further than Megan McArdle.antonellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12982114674256413921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-67080676506964152752011-12-01T18:47:03.269-06:002011-12-01T18:47:03.269-06:00Everyone who objected to the stimulus because the ...Everyone who objected to the stimulus because the recession will be over before the effects kick in should definitely kill themselves.kthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12807643816565849458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-15668948314003622702011-12-01T18:14:33.589-06:002011-12-01T18:14:33.589-06:00Now we know why?
We know nothing.
Even if we go...Now we know why?<br /><br />We know <i>nothing. </i><br /><br />Even if we got complete accounts from Bradley & McArdle they'd be so different we'd still know nothing.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.com