My God, you are an idiot.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don't know about all that, but whenever Ty and I share a hookah at the coffee shop, it's always a delight to hear him do five or six stanzas of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Farsi.

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Good times.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Secret_Agent_Man

I'd tend to think that the success in Tunisia -- -- had a lot more to do with it than Iraq, but that's just a guess.

My father had a lot more to do with conceiving me than my grandfather, but without my grandfather's work I don't think I'd have been conceived.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

My father had a lot more to do with conceiving me than my grandfather, but without my grandfather's work I don't think I'd have been conceived.

Your father was "inspired" by watching TV coverage of your grandfather's... um... "elections?"

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

Your father was "inspired" by watching TV coverage of your grandfather's... um... "elections?"

no, but he told me he found a naked picture of grandma that grandpa kept hidden. Good ole dad said he would beat off to it regularly, always felt guilty but kept going back to it. See in those days you couldn't be picky about what porn you might use, you had to use what you could find.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by hank chinaski

my father had a lot more to do with conceiving me than my grandfather, but without my grandfather's work i don't think i'd have been conceived.

mfm?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

mfm?

ask Atticus, he claims to have been there.

[Adder]

Cantor:

“Obviously, the problem is that people in Virginia don’t have earthquake insurance.”

Yglesias

[LessinSF]

Steve Jobs, creator of the most valuable company on the planet - a Repbublican's wet dream right? Um, no:

He's the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He's a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly old-fashioned liberal teachings from the hippies and folk music stars of the 60s. And he believes in science, in things that science can demonstrate like climate change and Pi having a value more specific than "3", and in extending responsible benefits to his employees while encouraging his company to lead by being environmentally responsible.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Steve Jobs, creator of the most valuable company on the planet - a Repbublican's wet dream right? Um, no:

Has anyone looked into whether he has unAmerican beliefs?

[Adder]

Okay, I'm now convinced that re-appointing Bernanke is a glaring example. If he says the Fed's just fine with below target inflation and high unemployment, what's the point in having a Fed?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Whoa.

John Maynard Keynes:

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

Ben Bernanke:

These are tempestuous times, but when the storm is long past the ocean will be flat again.

Krugman

eta: For Hank: The failures of economists.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

Okay, I'm now convinced that re-appointing Bernanke is a glaring example. If he says the Fed's just fine with below target inflation and high unemployment, what's the point in having a Fed?

Is "lack of leadership" just a synonym for "mistake"?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Is "lack of leadership" just a synonym for "mistake"?

From 2003-8 "mistake" was a synonym for "treasonous lie." usage may have changed?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

From 2003-8 "mistake" was a synonym for "treasonous lie." usage may have changed?

Really? I don't think I ever recall anyone on the left crying "treason." That one is usually reserved to those who view themselves as more "patriotic" than thou, who are usually on the right.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Is "lack of leadership" just a synonym for "mistake"?

Well, duh.

ETA: Although here I think it is a question of vision, and a question of willingness to take on a battle over the replacement, so yeah, I do think there is a leadership element to this particular mistake, even though I was mostly just joking about Club and Hank's Obama critique.