I got your leading conservative intellectual right here

This can go as easily here as on the other thread — thanks, Michael, for posting the link to the Ellen Willis review of What’s the Matter with Kansas. It’s absolutely right on (and relevant to Tea Party politicking).

Vance, I think Holbo would have pinched me for encroachment. He’s done it before.

Kathleen — isn’t that essay a delight, though? We lost Ellen way too soon.

MarkUp, I think Newt is working on an even more powerful weapon that will allow him to send his thoughts directly into our brains, with devastating results.

On behalf of tinfoil hat-wearers across the globe, I hereby take offense at your comparison!

I may believe in UFOs, but you’ve got to admit: that looks like pretty solid empirical territory compared to the ideological bird’s nest you’d have to have installed (directly into your central fucking nervous system, by the way) in order for this message to get yer blood a-boilin’. I’m a nut, Michael; it’s not the same as being mean or dumb.

…apology, please?

It took me 2 clicks into tea party land to learn that Americans are creating their own currencies and fleeing the debased dollar. I hope that the new Wizard of Oz movie faithfully reflects the competing money parable of the original.

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the movie poster for Scanners @ 4? I keep messing up the, how do you say, hypertext protocols for images stored for use in that other blog.

Doug, I completely agree that the Roswell incident defies rational explanation, and that anyone who believes in the existence of those alien corpses in Area 51 and who receives updates on their comrades’ incipient invasion of our planet is many orders of magnitudinousness more sane than the Party of Teabaggers. To wit, I apologize.

Speaking of which, P O’Neill @ 8, the reason Americans are creating their own currencies is that Obama is planning to replace the dollar with stone tablets that will weigh over 50 kg and cannot be inserted into any ATM.

Just think how awesome it would have been if Newt Gingrich had come out with this stand against overspending and corrupt government any time in the last eight years!

(And then just think how unthinkable that thought is.)

I’d rather watch a Hatter and a March Hare stuff a Dormouse into a teapot.

With any luck, maybe those will be the counter protesters.

Correct Latin grammar is for elitist eggheads. We know what we mean.

I got a box o’ gold bars right here — no, don’t open it — and some currency I printed up. Wanna invest in my bank?

But I thought Thomas Sowell was our greatest conservative intellectual? *#

*according to David Mamet
**Conservatives don’t read him anyway
***I’m kidding anyway and don’t care

A gathering for tea? How Old Europe.

Too much fraud? Government too big? So is Newt for or against financial re-regulation?

This is such old Republican hogwash the tin-foil hat should be replaced with the more established beanie with propeller.

Patriotism, the first tactic of Gingriches. The acts of Gingrich and 90’s GOP resulted in the lending crisis, and bailout–though helped along by Billy Bob Clinton (who agreed to most de-reg legislation) . Bushco obviously followed in the Gingrich tradition–evidenced by the slashes of estate taxes, capital gains taxes.

That said, ObamaCo has not shown much interest in kicking tax rates on the ostentatiously wealthy back up to preBush levels, or in anti-trust like policies (Billy Bob C did at least attempt anti-trust on Microsoft). Increase the cap-gains rate on Silicon valley billionaires, and that bailout could be paid off in no time (perhaps unlikely given Google/Yahoo/Apple’s/etc. support of the Obama campaign. Schmidt/Page/Brin have been granted virtual immunity–their Ferraris are safe)

God love Newt….he didn’t say jack when Bush was tripling the size of the government and spending hundreds of billions invading a country that did nothing to us based on lies. Now he wants government to control spending because ‘his’ party isn’t in power. The only taxes they give a rip about lowering are for those making over 250G’s a year. The Republicans were against Obama lowering taxes for the middle-class. But they’ve roped so many poor fools into believing lowering taxes on millionaires somehow benefits them. It would be sad if it wasn’t so damaging to those of us who know better.

As Warren Buffet is famous for saying “There is a class war going on and my side is winning”.

I wish they’d start making margins bigger. I had a hell of a time solving Fermat’s last conjecture and all because of small margins.