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Jay Stevens takes umbrage to me calling his N-SHWP pal, Matt a N-SHWP. I’d make my case again to rebut but I have decided that I won’t argue with N-SHWPs who contradict themselves and use really dated bankruptcy studies.
Well, except maybe for fighting with Mark T – only because he’s only a N-SHW and, lacking the P, I’ll afford him just a wee bit more respect.
Nuff said.
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I have never once seen you promote a liberal blog, even if it is well written, but you have a post below directing people to the Mt Pundit. You even have a section of your blogroll dedicated to ‘hand wringers’. So, your conservative?
I am just saying, you claim to lie on the left with issues like same sex marriage and other personal liberties, yet you never seem to agree with us on anything. Or, for that matter, do anything except call us playground names. I am not wringing my hands, I just have to wonder why you are such an ass to people on the left but will accept rank stupidity from the right.
I think you’re wringing your hands. But I take exception to the fact that I just call people on the left “play gound names” as you might call them. I mean, don’t you see that N-SHWP is a term of endearment? (and of course you’ve never engaged in using any pejoratives I take it?)
As for me promoting only righty blogs, well, maybe, but lately it’s in a way of introduction – kind of like YAMB. I think you’ll find that I don’t often link to people’s blogs with whom I agree (because I rather detest the echo chamber effect of like-mindedness.) I’d much rather throw an incendiary device and watch the reaction.
Am I a conservative… Hell yes, depending on the issue and the definition of “conservative.” (I think you’re making reference to my statement about family values which, still stands.) I have never said that I wasn’t.
Dave Budge:
You will have to excuse Shane’s sensitivity. He hasn’t been the same since Karl DF beat him up on the playground called “Netroots.â€
If Matt didn’t have so many friends going into politics or the PeaceCorps he might have a different outlook on things. I could see how getting started out of college might be tough for someone who, say, borrows a bunch of money to cruise out of UM with a 3.0 GPA in some low-paying liberal arts major like social work.
Personally, in my first full year of work after graduating, I’m on well on my way to maxing out my 401(k) and saving a ton of money on top of that. I’m sure that plain mental aptitude has helped me a lot, but it also has a lot to do with the fact that while my friends and frat buddies were using evenings to party or go hiking I was stuck laboring over homework trying to earn the best grades I could. I sometimes wonder about that choice–whether I should have taken more time out to enjoy my time in college in exchange for having fewer good jobs available when I graduated–but when assholes like Matt and David Sirota want to tax away the benefits I earned for myself in making that tradeoff, in order to benefit those who didn’t, it *really* pisses me off.
Jay Stevens writes: “You can push dirt around 80 hours a week and still not be able to buy health insurance for your family or send your kid to college.” For anyone who grew up in the U.S., I would want to know, why is pushing dirt around the best job they were able to find? What sort of choices did they make that that became the most productive labor they had to offer? And how the hell did they expect to _pay for their kids’ college tuition_ with a job like that?
You have the right idea, Andrew. Unfortunately, your success will always attract leeches like Stevens and Singer and the rest. Oh, don’t get me wrong! They won’t be sucking your blood for their own benefit. Oh no. Certainly not. They will be sucking your blood for the benefit of some hypothetical loser they’ve invented.
But leaving aside their self-serving pleas for other people’s money, you never questioned their unstated premises, such as everyone has a right to health insurance or everyone has a right to a college education or everyone has a right to a high-paying job. Those are typical of the premises from which they launch their fallacious arguments. And what they all have in common is a delusional belief in “equality.â€
What #5 anonymous in Bozeman said.
I’d also say, kudos for your hard work, Andrew.
Lots of nutjobs out there – Dave, you’re starting to gain rank.
Congrats.
Drylander,
Please explain exactly why you see me as a “nutjob”. It the least you can do.
Remind me some time to write about what a small world blogging is (hopefully I’ll get linked!).
And I object to being called a neo-socialist hand wringing non-pussy. Living, as I do, in a corporate-socialist system, and objecting, as I do, the the amount of high level subsidy that goes on in this land, I like to think of myself as somewhat a populist. I do favor safety nets, but cringe at the low-lifes that we coddle. I know they are out there.
I do write alot about what is wrong, but otherwise, it ain’t interesting. So I admit to being a hand wringer. But that’s your think – no one else is thinking much about that.
Allow me to characterize myself: A talented and charismatic person who’s much to big to get into snuggy contests. I’m way to good to be here. Way too good. I’m also sexy.