Comments on: Yglesias Doesn't Care about the Causes of Inequality Because He Doesn't Care about Inequality

By: Drake

Drake — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:01:36 +0000

“so there’s really no reposting it…”

Yes, as I subsequently discovered. Oh well, glad you liked it. I’d tried to track down the clip on youtube (Sam’s performance is much funnier than my transcription); alas, no such luck.

By: Drake

Drake — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:01:00 +0000

“so there’s really no reposting it…”

Yes, as I subsequently discovered. Oh well, glad you liked it. I’d tried to track down the clip on youtube (Sam’s performance is much funnier than my transcription); alas, no such luck.

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:35:58 +0000

economist.com is updating its comments feature, so there’s really no reposting it. Anyway, that’s damn funny.

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:35:00 +0000

economist.com is updating its comments feature, so there’s really no reposting it. Anyway, that’s damn funny.

By: Drake

Drake — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:36:53 +0000

Boy, did I ever leave that comment on the wrong post. Go ahead and delete it; I'll repost it over where it belongs.

By: Drake

Drake — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:36:00 +0000

Boy, did I ever leave that comment on the wrong post. Go ahead and delete it; I'll repost it over where it belongs.

By: Drake

Drake — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:33:40 +0000

“It is then vivid that the decision not to have the next child will leave some unlucky soul dejected and unrealised. If having a kid benefits the kid, then not having a kid harms the kid-that-might-have-been.”

But cf. Sam Kinison (to his parents, who have announced to him, “[Y]ou’re old enough to be on your own”:

You know, before I was your little son. Before I was your baby — before I was your loan — I was a free spirit in the next stage of life. I walked in the cosmos, not imprisoned by a body of flesh, but free, in a pure body of light. There were no questions, only answers. No weaknesses, only strengths. I was light, I was truth, I was a spiritual being, I was a God!!!

But you had to F*** and bring my ass down HERE!

I didn’t ask to be born! I didn’t call and say: ‘Hey, please have me so I could work in a f***in’ Winchell’s someday!’ Now you want me to pay my own way? F*** YOU! PICK UP THE F***IN’ CHECK, MOM! PICK IT UP!

I read Kinison as pretty much disagreeing with the Economist’s analysis.

By: Drake

Drake — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:33:00 +0000

But cf. Sam Kinison (to his parents, who have announced to him, “[Y]ou’re old enough to be on your own”:

You know, before I was your little son. Before I was your baby — before I was your loan — I was a free spirit in the next stage of life. I walked in the cosmos, not imprisoned by a body of flesh, but free, in a pure body of light. There were no questions, only answers. No weaknesses, only strengths. I was light, I was truth, I was a spiritual being, I was a God!!!

But you had to F*** and bring my ass down HERE!

I didn’t ask to be born! I didn’t call and say: ‘Hey, please have me so I could work in a f***in’ Winchell’s someday!’ Now you want me to pay my own way? F*** YOU! PICK UP THE F***IN’ CHECK, MOM! PICK IT UP!

I read Kinison as pretty much disagreeing with the Economist’s analysis.

By: mk

mk — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:04:54 +0000

Tell those suckers over there to accept comments! What good is vaguely hostile tendentious libertarian proselytizing if you don’t allow good old-fashioned trolling flame-wars in response? Such a tease!

By: mk

mk — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:04:00 +0000