Just when I thought the 1% couldn't get more despicable:

[GrannySmith]

there are too many WAAAbad journalism.

Derp.

i guess i had that derp coming right for me 
yes, of course it's gross. And i do agree with 99% (whatever that means) and i do think the 1% is disgusting. i just think they're much more despicable than that -naja, i guess this isn't a contest of despicableness

[Junkenstein]

I think Ayn Rand already wrote that book, it was called "Atlas Shrugged".

Ah shit. At least it wasn't popular and taken seriously.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think Ayn Rand already wrote that book, it was called "Atlas Shrugged".

Ah shit. At least it wasn't popular and taken seriously.

I KNOW, RIGHT? 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

there are too many WAAAbad journalism.

Derp.

i guess i had that derp coming right for me 
yes, of course it's gross. And i do agree with 99% (whatever that means) and i do think the 1% is disgusting. i just think they're much more despicable than that -naja, i guess this isn't a contest of despicableness

Nope, just a perfect little vignette of ick.

It's actually got so much perfect Hollywood outrage all packaged neatly that if it weren't citing a real and well-known cultural studies author I would suspect it was made up. It totally SOUNDS like urban legend.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The upside is that I think I found a new toy: hxxp://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=59563

Too busy until the end of term, but in five weeks, my pretties. Oh, we shall play!

[Cain]

The upside is that I think I found a new toy: hxxp://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=59563

Too busy until the end of term, but in five weeks, my pretties. Oh, we shall play!

I was worried about sleigh's response, until he clarified.  Matty Woodchuck impressions FTW.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The upside is that I think I found a new toy: hxxp://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=59563

Too busy until the end of term, but in five weeks, my pretties. Oh, we shall play!

I was worried about sleigh's response, until he clarified.  Matty Woodchuck impressions FTW.

Yeah, that was pretty awesome.

[Cain]

Yglesias' piece on work safety standards in Bangladesh really has to be read to be believed.  It was something like "Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK".

No, actually, it was exactly that.  That was the title of his Slate piece in response to the death of 161 people in a recent factory collapse over there.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yglesias' piece on work safety standards in Bangladesh really has to be read to be believed.  It was something like "Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK".

No, actually, it was exactly that.  That was the title of his Slate piece in response to the death of 161 people in a recent factory collapse over there.

Whaaaaaat are you shitting me?  I'm going to look that up and read it after class.

[Cain]

Here you go

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/24/international_factory_safety.html

Also, in my admittedly biased opinion, the best response to him.

I'd also like everyone to note that this is the same Yglesias who was being touted as the (somewhat pudgy and ill-shaven) face of American progressive politics a few years back. 

[Junkenstein]

Holy shit, that response is awesome!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Here you go

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/24/international_factory_safety.html

Also, in my admittedly biased opinion, the best response to him.

I'd also like everyone to note that this is the same Yglesias who was being touted as the (somewhat pudgy and ill-shaven) face of American progressive politics a few years back.

Wow, that guy is a jaw-dropping shitheel.

And that response to him, truly, is excellent.

[Cain]

He always has been.  His schtick has always been somehow proceeding from a counterintuitive (and usually factually incorrect) premise and discovering whole new dimensions in how to be wrong....which is no doubt why he now works for Slate magazine.

I mean, this was pretty cute:

The fact that the economics profession can offer so little in the way of consensus guidance about dramatic, crucially important events like the panic of 2007-2008 is a huge problem and a very legitimate knock on the enterprise, but it doesn't actually undermine the overall epistemic status of the discipline.

And this is further proof of his sociopathy:

Japan, after all, just got hit with a series of very real negative shocks. Buildings have fallen down. Buildings that are still standing have been damaged by water. Cars, trucks, and other pieces of useful equipment have been ruined. Roads, docks, and other pieces of transportation infrastructure have been blocked by debris. Several nuclear power reactors aren't generating electrical power. Tens of thousands of human beings are dead or injured.

Negative shocks!  Stuff damaged!  Oh yeah, and thousands of people died.

He thinks sentences like this are insightful, rather than a banal acknowledgement of facts:

People often don't realize it . . . but Marx was in many ways working in the tradition of classical economists like David Ricardo and Adam Smith.

No way!  Seriously?  Next you'll be telling me Emile Durkheim worked in the tradition of Auguste Comte.

Moar:

:lulz:On a related note, if WalMart manages to "drive mom and pop stores out of business" by selling affordable groceries to under-served urban neighborhoods, that's what I would call a triumph for human progress.

I could go on all day.  Yggie is....a pet interest of mine.  His ability to be absolutely and 100% wrong on any given subject comforts me, as it reminds me that liberals are equally capable of being utterly stupid and totally sociopathic.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Pretty much everything that guys writes comes off as a pastiche of the attitudes of the emergent autonamous agent we call corporations. But it's not a caricature. This nobend actually thinks that way. Like forealz 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I get a very strong impression that he considers himself significantly smarter and more objective than everyone else, and in his own mind is merely deigning to point out what he thinks is obvious.