Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Easy Marx

Well, the dude may be a lazy man, but I've always found the immensely (if inexplicably) popular Eschaton/Duncan Black the least awful of the liberal set, but still, you'd think that at some point you'd stop being surprised that a system that proudly calls itself capitalism operates in the service of capital.

31 comments:

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

Dr. Black is profiled at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrios


It states there that he is the creator of the "Friedman Unit" time measurement

PR said...

But he is a "high information voter" who can discern differences between the two parties that lesser beings cannot.

PR said...

Also2 he has a PHD in economics and that should rilly impress u IOZ.

Anonymous said...

Inexplicable popularity?

He will gladly explain to anyone who will listen that if you want to have a blog as popular as his, simply start it in 2002.

Anonymous said...

Kind of hard to put a foot wrong when all you ever actually write is "open thread" and "wanker of the day".

Michael Dawson said...

But he hasn't gotten that far yet, has he? "Of the banks, by the banks" is merely a rotten-apple theory.

Anonymous said...

that link was my first trip to eschaton, but i was confused. is it a blog? or just a webpage that hosts random advertisements

Gridlock said...

It used to be the internet's premier spot for open threads and bitching about the car-centric way US cities are laid out.

He was my first blog I used to read, I thinks. Bless.

I reckon our host likes him because of the enthusiasm for L'eau Noir Flambé he once expressed.

Freddie said...

Atrios is a good dude.

NutellaonToast said...

They were capitalists, Walter?

davidly said...

PR is right. But the blawg in question does seem to overlook the Grand Old Con(spiracy) to always remain too few corpses more evil than the Party of Sally's Pimp for the low info voter to be able to tell the difference.

Anonymous said...

Lazy you say? Updates daily, unlike some bloggers...

Anonymous said...

Right, how dare IOZ not spend hours every day, 365 days a year, on the service we pay him for.

TGGP said...

On the other hand: Are the rich capitalist? Are capitalists rich?

Gridlock said...

It was Kos-rhymes-with-rose that cheered the dead mercenaries, not Atrios. D'oh.

Anonymous said...

I got nothin'.

Eerily Lackadaisical said...
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Eerily Lackadaisical said...

As commentary on a post by M'sieur about perceptions of capitalism, ya gotta love the back and forth of nony's @802/958 about the time a blogger puts in ...

It's kind of like some weird refraction of the labor theory of surplus value in a kaleidoscope ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

(Back in the day, ya couldn't expect to score a Sarah Lawrence girl unless you could roll the phrase "labor theory of surplus value" out from between your lips smoother than your handy-dandy Bugler rolled out a joint for her ...)

Anonymous said...

Success rate of IOZ commenters trying to be as hip'n'funny as their host: 0.003%.

Anonymous said...

dude, yr comment just lowered that rate lol

Anonymous said...

ha ha u r stupid

Anonymous said...

ha ha, so r u!!!

mark r. said...

I thought the following was hip'n'funny because it was a quote of a catch phrase often employed by Atrios at his blog.

Anonymous said...

I got nothin'.
10:53 PM

Anonymous said...

your mama

NutellaonToast said...

I don't remember any of those lines from The Big Lebowski. I'm going to have to re-watch

Anonymous said...

Just a note to point out that NutellaOnToast is N-O-T.

Not S-O-S, that is.

S-O-S tastes much much better than N-O-T does.

NutellaonToast said...

S-O-S. Is that like an eastern thing?

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef

rob payne said...

The dude is probably popular because he tells his flock what they wish to hear and they eat it up along with brown babies. Liberals ‘n’ Ribs. Liberals are manly too. Their head honcho has a big wanger.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Yggy says an economic recovery is right around the corner!

PR said...

@IOZ, Happy New Year! Hope you are well.