Wiggles strains his brain to discover the virtuousness of firing poor people because their continued employment causes fiscal-existential angoisse to tit-sucking, carpetbagging, scumbag rentiers-manqués like Wiggles himself, whose own subsidized existence vomitting up flabby consensus recieved opinions within the federal zone is no less a public-sector patronage job than Latitia's and Taqwonda's down at the prothonotary's office--it just has a few more layers of bullshit money-laundering built in between its source of funding and its squealing terminal recipient. The sheer gall of it! This fucking pasty-ass Harvard simp bearing the viability vocabulary like a junkie balancing his spoon, living in a slave-built city, a great monstrous Mammon from which one trillion dollars a year are diverted into the task of murdering and subjugating people around the world, a huge satanic vortex of waste and injustice, is going to proudly rationalize the firing of low-wage workers in the worst of economic times in a city wherein no alternative employment even exists because he percieves that their employment is wasteful! Because they are wasting HIS TAXPAYER MONEY that he made doing his IMPORTANT JOB for which he gets fucking paid which is to inflict his "beef with crosswalks in the contemporary American urban environment" upon us all. What an odious little shit.
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The downside to the Alaska/Norway approaches is that it doesn’t work as well as a way for an authoritarian regime to disburse patronage and keep itself in power.
Oh, THANK GOD America doesn't disburse patronage to keep its regime in power! How many BCCC grads blog for The American Prospect, again?
Oh my. Does this mean the IOZ/Wiggles flirtation is over?
I had such hopes...
I tried commenting over there, couldn't because of unknown technical issues, but I see that you've rendered my comment superfluous. This fetish that the so-called creative class has of demanding accountability for "results" from everyone lower than they are on the totem pole is pretty disgusting, especially since they're never held accountable for cheering on our parade of never-ending neo-liberal disasters. Sick-making.
Matt Yglesias is a dipshit.
I'm really not sure why you find him so outrageous IOZ.
Frrealz, Scott. Yglesias, WE DEMAND TO SEE YOUR RESULTS!
Yeah!! Fuck this guy!
Wiggles, weren't you about to propose a toast to your gallant captain?
I don't know what possessed me, but I read the comments after Yglesias' posting and found this great insight:
"(Maya Angelous is a completely overrated steaming bucket of crap, and anyone who talks about how moving her bullshit is sucks balls. Poetry sucks in general. But Maya Angelou sucks the most. Who fucking cares why the caged bird sings? Shut the fuck up.)"
I think we can all agree that "Poetry sucks". Hard to argue with such an in-depth insight. And so do novels, and short stories, and essays. Suck, suck, suck.
Yglesias says "The homeless and the unemployed are certainly vulnerable and worthy of receiving high-quality services."
Just as long as those services don't include a job, apparently.
Actually, if we take him at face value, he appears to be arguing that the government should stop paying these people to do jobs of some sort and start paying them to do nothing, as a guaranteed income will apparently stimulate the economy, but leave them in a better position to radically question the government.
If we leave aside the fact that that doesn't really make any sense at all, it's a pretty damn radical vision the man has.
Love poetry, hate poetry... we can all agree on Maya Angelou, can't we?
LP Steve: Yes to Maya Angelou. But really now, Poetry sucks....
Fuckin maya angelou, giving all the good black poets a bad name.
Well certainly a performance-based evaluation of bloggers at TAP isn't too much to ask, is it?
I mean, we don't want to pay anyone to do nonsense work do we?
Rather than Maya Angelou I'd rather read Ishmael Reed any day.
For those of you already aware that Poetry Sux, no need to wonder: Ishamel Reed is one of those writers who Sux. You wouldn't want to find out why or how. You already know the answer, bless your hearts.
For those of you not yet fully seduced by the cosmos-enfolding wealth of imagination you can encounter in your own lonely mind (for free, and without even having to enter a bookstore, I might add) perhaps Ishmael Reed is a writer whose writing might be interesting to you(despite the way it Sux, and whether or not he's black.)
As far as the Poesy goes, I too dislike it. But at least I can recognize the difference between genuine and fake.
Some on the other hand pays their money and doesn't take their choice. Ain't freedom grand?
no alternative employment even exists because he percieves that their employment is wasteful!
This isn't right. In Yggy's mind they can always cut hair.
John, huffing Freon went out of fashion 30 years ago. I know. I was there.
Monsieur, the Friday Hot-IOZ-on-Yggy butt thing must stop. How will you ever have time for Foodie Friday?
Let's not forget that Yggie receives far more patronage than Latitia ever will.
I agree with Yglesias. Services and redistribution should be separated, otherwise service will be of lower quality. Perhaps not only should Yglesias be fired, but D.C should be bulldozed and cordoned off forever with scary-looking spikes sticking out of the ground. Doesn't change the fact that people prefer to live in places where municipal jobs are more about services than patronage.
Yggy lives in DC, right? At any rate he has a little spy-stallite view of its Haussman-avant-la-lettre street plan on his site. 'Nuff said. It's a place that makes people evil, and if they're already pretty evil to start with, well then...!
Also, he does not seem to understand the function of his alma mater.
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/09/harvardperetz-controversy-illustrates-folly-of-charitable-donations-to-wealthy-u-s-universities/
Isn't Yglesias's performance metric the ability to pull web traffic rather than to be logical or morally upright? If so then your rant simply highlights his effectiveness and in effect justifies his salary.
Prose sux!
I woke up this morning and discovered that I was speaking prose! There is a God after all!
Holy shit, that crosswalks thing is fucking dumb, but also reveals Wiggles' profound desire to be taken seriously as a Social Engineer. Why are the crosswalks curved, for god's fucking sake? Why not just double the width of existing ones? "Because studies show this is how people walk," and because some other simp "designer" tried to combine elitist engineering with "art."
It never occurs to Yggs thatthe minute you change the entry point onto the street, people will stretch the other side still more, regardless of some "designer's" fantasy that the artful curve will receive compliance as an expression of popular gratitude for the wisdom of Wiggles and his buddies.
And it's also quite a response to to the problems we face in the areas of transportation and energy and public space. Peak oil about to arrive in a nation of 200 million automobiles? Let's paint pretty crosswalks!
come on IOZ, this little dipshit is no the issue. draw a bigger line in the sand.
I'd never before thought of how the Lucas critique applies to street design.
These odious little shits in progressive land are really starting to do their partisan dirty tricks. I've just been banned at Digby's place, for being too critical of the Dear Leader and his party, I guess.
I also now see Digby is in the comment section trying to mop up any criticism. She just posted a comment calling Orson P "juvenile" and telling him to "Fuck Off" (in her thread from this weekend about Obama's comments about the petulant left--which she may even agree with!).
The Marion Barry (and, it seems, Milloy) view is that we should be Saudi Arabia
What an ass hat. DC is mostly black -- they don't call it Chocolate City for nothing and -- before Marion Barry there was no black middle class here. Saudi Arabia doesn't have a middle class at all. And lobbyists and the defense industry != oil. They mostly just drive up rents here.
On a related note, I just launched a website for a campaign to reopen one of the shelters Fenty closed. Fenty, much to my amazement, even managed to turn the homeless into political activists who worked as hard as anyone to get him out of office.
Ahhh. Just read the Milloy piece. Fenty might have one positive legacy: he seems to have radicalized all sorts. Even Washington Post columnists.
I came in late on the DC public schools thing. I dont live in DC and my kids are grown. Reading up on it all I can say about the "caldron of hate" boling up out of the white preppy democratic loyalist writer class is disgusting. Scum like that, like "wiggles" are why we dont have a Left Movement in the US any more. Anyone should be able to see what Rhee was - a front for the experimental private sector theft and expropriation of public money, one of their edu-teering projects.A hedge fund managers concubine and a real fraud. Fenty is the new brown, wiggles freindly corporate face of corporate/political fraudsters (say hi to obama, fenty when your up there begging for a handout, soon). Glad the right side one in this time.
Anyone should be able to see what Rhee was - a front for the experimental private sector theft and expropriation of public money, one of their edu-teering projects.
Nail. Head. Sledgehammer.
calling him Wiggles is funny.
Yglesias is what, 25? 30? And he writes about DC, a town he's just landed in after finishing at Yarvard Hard?
WTF does Whale-Boy know about DC other than he has a cush job thanks to a Fancy Parchment and a willing sycophantic turn of phrase?
Nothing.
Good thing the average libbie and pwoggie don't ever think for themselves, and sit around waiting for Whale Boy and Friends to tell them what to think. Good thing Whale Boy's commentary is taken so seriously.
Whale Boy for Token Smart Fat Friend in Cool Kids Clique! He'll tell you what you Need to Know, and not be threatening -- nobody likes the Fat Kid anyway.
I couldn't agree more, Governor Palin. This pundit went to Harvard--fuck him. He's not like us regular folk. And he works for a nonprofit (a "subsidized existence")--why can't he work for a corporation like real Americans? And he's responsible for slavery and imperialism! Fuck him all the more! And will he ever stop posting about crosswalks?! How many of these posts have there been ... One? Two? Enough already! The deluge is unbearable!
... You might, of course, be right about your nominal point about city workers; the surrounding snark, though, is petty and unpersuasive and makes it hard to focus on your real point. Really hard.
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