Commenting on this Instapundit post: “I have no idea if it’s actually true, but sounds pretty plausible.” And that, my friends, is how the pros blog.
by Belle Waring on May 13, 2007
Commenting on this Instapundit post: “I have no idea if it’s actually true, but sounds pretty plausible.” And that, my friends, is how the pros blog.
{ 31 comments }
Jim Henley 05.13.07 at 7:46 am
What the FUCK, Belle. Did you KNOW I was going to end up reading Lileks when you wrote this post? And if you KNEW, doesn’t that make you RESPONSIBLE??
Belle Waring 05.13.07 at 8:30 am
I’m going to have to invoke the doctrine of double effect.
eugene 05.13.07 at 8:58 am
Didn’t see the connection to Lileks? Is Gnat working at Walmart now, and is that a good sign for the economy or not? So confused..
eugene 05.13.07 at 9:20 am
ohh, ok..2nd link on the instapundit..got it..
Tim Worstall 05.13.07 at 10:05 am
Sooooo, test question for D2.
Is Wal-Mart and inferior good?
Tim Worstall 05.13.07 at 10:06 am
“An” not “and”.
copernicus 05.13.07 at 10:26 am
Ha, that’s nothing. Ireland’s most famous neo-con post-adolescent anomaly regularly invoked the spectacular “I suspect without knowing”.
dsquared 05.13.07 at 11:53 am
Tim: you would have to do quite a lot of the kind of microeconometrics that gives me hives to get a reliable Slutsky decomposition of the price and income effects in Walmart. So I dunno. In general it’s very difficult to get any sort of measurement work done on retail services because it’s all intangible value added.
Eamonn Fitzgerald 05.13.07 at 12:17 pm
Don’t know what this is all about, which is the case with most CT posts, but it does appear that the strategy of dissing Instapundit is showing diminishing returns. Time to try a new tack? A new attack?
CharleyCarp 05.13.07 at 12:26 pm
Someone ought to send these folks a case of Occam’s razorblades. Sales at Walmart are down, and sales at Nordstroms are up. Think that might say something about some folks winning and some folks losing?
Belle Waring 05.13.07 at 12:35 pm
we can’t all have thought-provoking things to say about wrexham, eamonn.
fred lapides 05.13.07 at 12:43 pm
the language is getting a bit out of hand here, no? As for that very big store: they still seem to be doing ok, no matter if for the time sales are down. I don’t like shopping there but then I don’t like shopping anywhere. Some people like it. Still.
Comments are now getting like the snarky nonsense at Metafilter.com
P O'Neill 05.13.07 at 2:26 pm
Also recently at The Corner, Rich Lowry printed an e-mail from a fan explaining how his feelings on the Fred Thompson candidacy had evolved. Apparently the approval process was along the lines of … Fred Thompson … who? … you know, Red October, Law and Order … oh yeah, that guy … I like him!
And that’s how the pros pick presidential candidates.
Tim Worstall 05.13.07 at 3:08 pm
# 13. Worked before didn’t it? Bedtime for Bonzo?
Lester Hunt 05.13.07 at 3:17 pm
I neither read Instapundit nor wisecracks about Instapundit. Things to do, a life to live!
Aulus Gellius 05.13.07 at 3:17 pm
I don’t really see the problem with Goldberg’s comment. Is the idea that simply not understanding much economics counts as “boneheaded stupidity”? Or that, not being an economist, one should never comment about one’s reactions to opinions on economics, not even with a disclaimer like “I have no idea if it’s actually true”? Or that blogging is such a serious profession that one should never post any casual opinions, but only the results of careful thought and long-term research? None of those sounds really tenable.
"Q" the Enchanter 05.13.07 at 3:38 pm
Appalling, if true.
Davis X. Machina 05.13.07 at 4:18 pm
we can’t all have thought-provoking things to say about wrexham, eamonn.
Wrexham dodged a relegation bullet last week, and that’s all that matters.
Up the Red.
rm 05.13.07 at 4:28 pm
Bread sales are down, but cake is up! People must be getting better off!
lupita 05.13.07 at 5:04 pm
I don’t know much about this, but here’s what I think:
It’s a very bad idea.
r. clayton 05.13.07 at 5:27 pm
Also, because it’s too good to be forgotten:
Lonely Days, Lonely Nights , National Review Online, September 14, 2005, 8:40 a.m.
Alan Bostick 05.13.07 at 5:50 pm
As we used to say in the glory days of alt.folklore.urban:
Motto!
Sk 05.13.07 at 6:24 pm
Shouldn’t you be posting recipes?
Sk
Wax Banks 05.13.07 at 7:16 pm
Alan@19: Your Usenet throwback has simultaneously made and ruined my day. I am in both your debt and a rage.
P O'Neill 05.13.07 at 9:32 pm
Now I see in the context of Bush and Clinton presidential dynasties, Instapundit endorses Prof. Bainbridge
[Bainbridge] Perhaps it really is time to rethink how we select political leaders, so as to get back to the old model of citizen-legislators. Term limits, anyone?
[Insta] Perhaps it is.
This, in the aforementioned context, of an already term-limited US presidency. Heh Indeed.
Barry 05.13.07 at 10:04 pm
“I’m going to have to invoke the doctrine of double effect.”
Posted by Belle Waring
Actually it’s a triple effect, since there were mentions of Goldberg, Reynolds and Kaus, but your confession is acepted anyway :)
asg 05.14.07 at 1:42 am
So, in other words, verbatim Jonah Goldberg = shorter Maria Farrell on the Katrina aftermath.
notsneaky 05.14.07 at 1:53 am
Ummm, isn’t this just a circular definition of “plausibility”?
nick s 05.14.07 at 6:43 am
I don’t really see the problem with Goldberg’s comment.
Me neither. It’s the wage he earns for making it that chafes.
Which raises an interesting moral question: should one be more offended by Goldberg being paid by a loss-making private operation to produce lazy unresearched shite, or by the Perfesser producing his lazy unresearched shite in spare time, albeit with the healthy subsidy that comes from tenure granted by a public university? And does the fluctuation in my thinking on the matter have any wider significance on the economy?
Barry 05.14.07 at 12:50 pm
Yes, nick, it does. Questioning either of them Hurts America; questioning both Emboldens Terrorists. If you question a third right-wing BS artist (apologies to artists), you’d raise suicide bombers from the dead.
Ginger Yellow 05.14.07 at 1:07 pm
” “I have no idea if it’s actually true, but sounds pretty plausible.†”
If only there were some way to find out. Someone should, like, compile statistics on this stuff.
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