Comments on: The Buckley Stops Here

By: Fozzetti

Fozzetti — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:32:09 +0000

I am eagerly awaiting Jonah’s suing Doubleday for selling his book in bulk at 1/10 the cover price, and complaining about making 1/10th of his percentage, or whatever.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:32:50 +0000

JanusNode sounds very powerful and I should just sit down and learn it. Istuff). I've been trying to be helpful with that. Part of the problem is that JanusNode on both Mac and Windows is clunky and weird and every goddamn program wants to turn every quote into a smart quote'n'shit. But if you have some Unix behind you JanusNode should be pretty easy.

By: Malignant Bouffant

Malignant Bouffant — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:06:34 +0000

Good review of LF in the latest New Republic.

By: Tone In DC

Tone In DC — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:10:45 +0000

I can’t even joke about his book rising to number one on the non-fiction list. Yes, the book clubs are buying copies at a steep discount. Yes, Americans read less and less, so the sales probably aren’t as strong as Scott Adams’ first “Dilbert” tome.

But, uninformed people might actually believe some of the irrational, illogical and downright fanciful stuff in the Pantload’s book. When they could be buying Jeremy Scahill’s book, or Glenn Greenwald’s or John Dean’s.

By: histrogeek

histrogeek — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:49:21 +0000

I’m trying to find any bright spot to Jonah’s catbox liner being #1 on NYT bestseller and it just isn’t coming. I suppose it means the bar on history writing has dropped so low that you don’t even need access to a library or Wikipedia to write a best-seller. Nope, not making me feel better.
On the other hand, it’s called “an alternative history” a name usually reserved for speculative fiction. Hmmm, maybe it’s some kind of ultra-Nabokov, unreliable narrator fiction written about a world were the quality of political writing and historical thought has dropped so low that blatantly stupid arguments pass as serious. Nope, still not working.

By: OB-GYN Kenobi

OB-GYN Kenobi — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:59:08 +0000

–Conservative mode ON–

The NYT is a lyin’-ass librul rag that’s not fit to line catboxes or parakeet cages.

Yay! Jonah’s book is #1 on the NYT bestseller list!

(head explodes)

–Conservative mode OFF–

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:06:52 +0000

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of “Moderate Nabobbery: The Secret History of the Center from Warren G. Harding to Hannah Montana”?

By: Jon H

Jon H — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:15:45 +0000

Indeed, to the extent that Doughpants *can* be called a ‘nabob’, it is a stinging indictment of American society.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:12:50 +0000

“Not even a nattering nabob?”

The insult is the nattering. The ‘nabob’ part, I think, referred to the prominence of the media figures who were alleged to be nattering.

nabob:
1. A governor in India under the Mogul Empire. Also called nawab.
2. A person of wealth and prominence.

My understanding is that employees of the British East India Company would come back rich from India, and obtain social status and seats in Parliament, and became known as Nabobs.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:08:11 +0000

Trees were sacrificed for this crap?

By: moondancer

moondancer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:37:38 +0000

Jon H

Not even a nattering nabob?

By: Susan of Texas

Susan of Texas — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:37:23 +0000

Oh god, she thinks they are having intellectual debates. On the other hand, it’s going to be really funny to see Jonah try to be a public intellectual.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:24:54 +0000

Nabob isn’t actually an insult.

By: Smiling Mortician

Smiling Mortician — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:14:55 +0000

#1 with a mullet.

By: gbear

gbear — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:00:05 +0000

#1 with a pullet?

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:25:09 +0000

Righteous Bubba – I poked around and didn’t find a new version of Babble, but I did find a page that has the old DOS one (look for bab200 and rename the file to something.zip when you save it off). It appears to work under a WinXP DOS window, if that sort of thing flips your cookie. YMMV with other OSes.

JanusNode sounds very powerful and I should just sit down and learn it. I’ve written a few little things along these lines for classes, which make entertaining output but don’t have any kind of usable interface (strictly command-line Unix stuff).

By: Lakeesha Shaidle

Lakeesha Shaidle — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:13:48 +0000

It’s #1 with a pantload!

By: Anne Laurie

Anne Laurie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:46:51 +0000

Wingnut punk.

Aren’t they all?

By: Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:19:25 +0000

The fact that the book was published, plus making the list, plus being #1 is probably what killed Buckley.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:18:42 +0000

I’m sure Jonah will celebrate that Scaife finally got around to buying 100,000 copies, but I’m actually glad for his success. It makes my life, when it involves right wingers, easier in two ways.
First, it’s such obvious bullshit that it doesn’t take any effort to discredit the “thesis”.
Second, it reveals anyone who supports that “thesis” as so obviously an idiot that no one around them will take anything they say from then on the least bit seriously.
Thanks to my parents partially retiring to Florida I’ve known actual evolution deniers, but even they wouldn’t swallow this.
I want Jonah to succeed, the same way that back in the good game seven in ’03 I, and everyone else in Yankee Stadium, wuz yelling at Grady Little to leave Pedro in. Jonah’s success makes my life as a lefty easier. I’d much rather have to argue against him than someone intelligent, informed, and thoughtful.