Well, that was bracing.
I like the long trope about names. Reminds me of the Kliban cartoon about what dogs call themselves.
Let me be clear about the equivalence issue. I do notice conservatives accept utterly value-free behavior in business even as they excoriate unconventional marriages. While I wish ours were a less greedy, rapacious culture, I recognize that it's part of the Amnerican Way of Life, for good or ill. I'm not so much asking them to change their attitude toward feral capitalism as I am asking them to acknowledge that our sexual mores, as well, are not inflicted on us by outside agitators, but grown in our own souls.
Gotcha, Roy.
I guess I'm just slightly more optimistic; I dont think that sort of greed is grown in our souls. Sexual greed, yes; it's hardwired for everyone. destructive material greed, no. not unless we are biologically programmed to be agents of our own destruction.
irregardless, they are inconsistent by their own standard: the bible.
I'm surprised you're not flaming up the All-Busch thread on BTF.
are you kidding, digamma? that's the sorriest bunch of robonerd cardinal fans ive ever seen. i already know that thread will be nothing but slagging Herzog, punctuated by Beane Won The Mulder Trade! statsneers. fuck that.
but im surprised *you* didnt comment on my libertarian haterant. what happened to you, man? cant you be goaded anymore heh
Nice piece, Retardo. I'd love to talk with Lewis Lapham about these faux-classicists, how about you?
Withering.
I'd say the time in the rice fields helped you collect your thoguhts. These posts are great reads.
There is nothing about Beane in there. It's purely internecine between St. Louis enthusiasts. I'll go handle that libertarian business now.
Um, RE: Sully, that's one cybersearch that, if productive, could hardly be considered "lucky."
Well, the point is that *he'd* consider it lucky, teh lame.
Anyway, I'm back in the fields again now, so it'll be a while before I blog again.
C,mon boy, put yo back into it. I know this is the Sabbath and all. But come Monday I want to be served some Grade A, prime cut meat, some beef Retartare. Kristolmethod just called Paddy Fitz out as a runaway persecuter of conservatives for the sake of being conservative. He and Bitch Hume had the audacity, oh what the hell did I expect, to piss and moan 'bout Fitz not indicting on the Poppy Bush indentities statute that was his original grounds for proceeding.
This is in your wheelhouse like a Tom Neidenfuhr groover to Jack Clark. I am as cold to Clinton as you, but fair is fair and Kenny Boy Starr turned a real estate fraud investigation into the Comstock commission. And the two Murdcoch bastards along with other respectable moderate internationalists like Fareed Zakaria and that carbuncle on journalism's ass Joe Klein trooted out the "oh, special prosecutors are a terrible idea" refrain. What the hell did they want, Asscroft investigating his own former political consultant the Turdblossom. Never mind, I just answered my own question.
I'm sorry man, I shoulda figured you'd be in mourning for the Redbirds. Maybe the Black Sox can finish this thing off. That'll stick in more Ken and Trixies's craws than even your boys takin it. I mean Chesterfield and Ledoux have their share of Monsanto country club Repugs who also happen to be Cards fans, though I agree with what I assume to be your view that they aren't quite as grating as Trixiedom. Only ugly aspect of Pale Hosedom would be the reactionary proles of SW suburbia and NW Indiana. Still, a Sox/Cards tilt woulda been special.
Final note:any significance to Bush/Cheney's longstanding Houston ties and Patrick Fitzgerald's being a transplanted Chi-towner? Lets hope Fitz is the biggest Monster of the Midway since 1985 come the morrow. Jermaine Dye last night after Graffanino and the Playzinski gotta make ya wonder. Take Care.
Bush 43 used to own the Rangers. I'd guess he therefore has no love for the Astros, though his dad certainly does.
In yo face Poppy and mummy Bush, and Neilsie too. The baseball gods finally decided to smile down on the human slag heap that the Gipper and Poppy and their ideological successors fought so long and hard to deunionize, pauperize and demoralize. Wisconsin Steel may be no more and USS Gary works a shell of its former self, but by George there's a winner after 88 years on the Southside. RIP Shoeless Joe, Buck Weaver, Eddie Cicotte and the rest of the boys, and here's hoping Paddy Fitz gives new meaning to the term Eight Men Out reall soon.
and if anyone wonders what i meant by "silly and lispy" with regard to alkibiades, it's not about teh gay. rather, it was and is my recollection of plutarch that alkibiades was a silly, pompous and affected lout -- his lisp, his posture, his *style* was a show. like those doof courtesans who flattered the king of spain so much that the affected lisp became part of the dialect. or like tacitus himself. fake. pompous. intolerable.
Why did he choose the name "Tacitus"? As he once admitted to me several years ago in an exchange on another blog, the domain name was available, and he acquired it. He rather casually admitted he'd never read the works of his namesake.
As to the derivation of his prose style, I read it as an imitation of Sully imitating William F. Buckley, imitating early 20th century Tory British PM Arthur Balfour; pseudo-elegant phraseology meant to disguise essentially thuggish attitudes, and stated in such an elaborate fashion that you are distracted into not noticing how little there is in the way of factual argument, or even common sense. Now that you mention it, I guess there is a bit of Jamesian prose style in there as well, though this is probably from his having perused the works of some half-assed imitator rather than those of the Master.
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