Dec. 29th, 2002

heh

Dec. 29th, 2002 12:53 am
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Atrios links to someone named Weisblott who has posted a surprisingly passive-aggressive year-end blog roundup/worst bloggers list.

I don't know his work well enough to know if this sequence at the end of the post is intended to be funny.

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ATTENTION ALL BLOGGERS, PLEASE STOP SUCKING UP TO: Mickey Kaus, James Lileks, Josh Marshall, Virgina Postrel and Mark Steyn. Yes, they are all terrific commentators. That's why they have figured out how to (usually) get paid for it. You will not be automatically granted the same recognition just because you gush about their work every damn day. You can stop now. Thank you.
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EMINEM: FATHER OF THE YEAR
My good pal Chuck Eddy of the Village Voice writes the article of his rock critic career. (If there, indeed, can be such a thing.)


LA BOHEME: Thanks to my being on the DreamWorks Records mailing list, I've been armed with a CD of Baz Luhrmann's new Broadway production of the Puccini opera...


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The rest of you. Yeah, you. Stop logrolling immediately, because it's really tacky, as I was just saying to...

So anyway, if this was intended as ironic performance art, I'm impressed.
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I'm interested in seeing how many people in his comments are in the amen corner. (If you don't read Atrios' comments, Snotglass has, up to this point, at least, been a house pundit there on sujets droits).

Ladies and Gentleman, Snotglass.
sisyphusshrugged: (Claude Rains Memorial Gambling Awareness)
I memed. I'm so proud.

Mark Kleiman has awarded a Claude (full title, of course, Claude Rains Memorial Gambling Awareness Award) to the chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party (I mentioned him yesterday, 'member? The one who linked to Little Green -erm - an anti-Islamic hate sight you probably haven't heard of, although I imagine you can figure out where in blogjournaltopiaspotstan you could hunt down some faithful readers).
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Did you folks realize (I didn't until yesterday - it's part of the whole paid livejournal thing) that if you log on to http://jmhm.livejournal.com instead of http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmhm you automatically get routed to the priority "fast" servers?

Give it a try. I'm told it makes a difference.

help me

Dec. 29th, 2002 01:13 pm
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[parental assistant doing mousework for young friend whipping through Reader Rabbit Second Grade]

ok, truth

t-r-u-t-h [letter inadventently placed in the wrong place] Hey! I said t-r-u-t-h!

[fixed] Gee whiz. Sorry about that. You have to be a little tolerant with your secretary sometimes.

[evil twinkle] I _like_ having a secretary

I can tell

Victory is sweet!

Mark again

Dec. 29th, 2002 02:59 pm
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I continue to be puzzled about why we think that, unlike virtually everything else we want to get done, the specific job of providing one-to-one service to poor people is the one that needs to be done by people not specifically talented at it or trained in it, most of whom also don't want to do it. Not only is it in some sense inefficient to have an engineer working in a food pantry, but there's reason to worry that people who are dragooned into volunteering by social pressure may take out the resulting aggression (mostly without being aware of it) on those they're supposed to be helping. Unless the consciousness-raising benefits are really overwhelming, why shouldn't a well-off person with a social conscience just spend those hours at work and write a check to pay someone whose comparative advantage is in serving food or helping kids with their homework?

Hallelujah. And get resentful when people don't fall all over themselves with thanks for just having such a lofty personage show up, without having done a damn thing.

Poor people have to jump through a lot more hoops than rich or even comfortable people do. They can't afford convenience.

Why is their time worth nothing? Is the two hours someone with no money and probably inadequate transportation and no day care spends on line less valuable than the time someone who can afford cars or cabs spends stroking their egos?

Charity, if it's not done in the most efficient and helpful way, should be done in a spirit of

well, damn, what are the odds, charity.

Sum up: Poor people don't have to earn charity, by definition. People doing charitable things have to earn the right to feel good about it.

Unless you want there to be a right to humane standards in the lives of citizens of this country, but I'm guessing lots of folks don't want to go there.

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