Comments on: What Wingnut Welfare’s All About

By: Interrobang

Interrobang — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:07:06 +0000

Those of you with an interest in PRopaganda should look up Frederick Houk Law, school-textbook anthologist and corporate shill extraordinaire. He pioneered putting a “family values” patina on the corporate agenda.

I’m sad to hear about the Rockridge Institute closing; I’ve been a fan of Lakoff’s since way, way before Lakoff was cool, but I went to grad school in the ’90s… (And no, I don’t do topiary.)

By: skeptic99

skeptic99 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:31:53 +0000

Pretty sure the quote is not by JK Galbraith, but his son, James, a big lefty economist at the U of Texas, and well worth reading in his own right.

By: Dollared

Dollared — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:10:59 +0000

This practice was not invented here. It is part of the inherent advantages of power that you can buy justification (and salvation).

Three centuries ago, it was said that no philosopher was ever punished for writing a treatise on the Divine Right of Kings….

By: Mooser

Mooser — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:16:57 +0000

“Bully pulpit”? Don’t you mean, more accurately “bally platform”? The small stage from which a circus barker exhorts the crowd to buy tickets.

By: tofubo

tofubo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:33:57 +0000

stryx said,

June 3, 2008 at 17:48

Simba I think you’re confusing two different Johns…

now maybe i was mistooken, it might have been W. and not K., it was 22 years ago and there was alcohol involved….

By: stryx

stryx — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:48:58 +0000

Simba I think you're confusing two different Johns. John W. Galbreath is the one who owns land west of Columbus. He is also a former owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, during which they won the World Series 3 times. John K. Galbraith only ever won the Presidential Medal of Honor. Twice.

By: tofubo

tofubo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:45:26 +0000

Simba B said,

June 3, 2008 at 17:21

The Galbraith family has a significant amount of farmland holdings in western Franklin County, Ohio (central Ohio; Columbus area)…

guess where i went to school: central ohio, the columbus area, so i wasn’t mistooken

By: Simba B

Simba B — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:21:07 +0000

The Galbraith family has a significant amount of farmland holdings in western Franklin County, Ohio (central Ohio; Columbus area), which is just a few miles from my childhood home. Their lands are bordered on U.S. Route 40 by white fences of a distinct variety that gives the area some unique character. My father, who also grew up in that area, tells me that there was good money to be had in the summer many years ago painting those miles of fences (they are now vinyl instead of painted wood). Sadly, they’ve been selling their land of late (central Ohio is growing like a weed and cookie cutter ‘burbs are popping up everywhere).

Ah, well. I’ll always have my memories I suppose.

By: tofubo

tofubo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:10:43 +0000

if i’m not mistooken, john kenneth galbraith spoke @ my high school graduation in ’86, and given the ‘liberal education’ in civics i received, didn’t know who he was @ the time

By: shystee

shystee — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:27:34 +0000

On the left is there is no real counterpart to institutions like AEI, Heritage Foundation, Hoover, Cato, etc. The reason is that on the Left all the energy, effort and the money go to electoral politics. "Just vote Democratic and everything will be peachy. We promise. You will get the policy you want because we understand your concerns." And then complicated things happen which cause the Dems to not deliver on their promises. The Right understood a long time ago that politicians come and go, but if you can shape the policy debate in the media, then whoever gets elected has to play along. The Left, such as it is, does not get it. Imagine how many struggling, no health insurance-having, B and C-list bloggers could make a living off 1% of what the candidates have raked in during the campaign. Imagine lefty think tanks that can place their own bobbleheads on any network yak show on any given Sunday. Remember the Rockridge Institute, the people who brought you the concept of Framing? They are toast. Building progressive policy infrastructure has to happen at the same time as electoral campaigning. It's hard to see how a Democratic victory will deliver progressive policy if the Right still controls the public debate.

By: Irving the Grouch

Irving the Grouch — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:21:36 +0000

Also, I got hedges that look like Proust, Kierkegaard, Einstein, the whole lot.

So there.

By: Magda Carter

Magda Carter — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:38:22 +0000

Hey graph!
No wucking furries mate.
Thank you for putting me back in my box with such a sophisticated brand of humour.
– MC

By: buermann

buermann — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:42:54 +0000

He had to find somebody to pay the bills after he got off the precursor welfare program as editor of Encounter. He knew how the dole creates dependency from personal experience, you might say.

By: gbear

gbear — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:40:35 +0000

We should have a self-esteem-building “Everyone Wins an Internets” day.

Would that be like the Special Internets?

(I know that was bad. Please don’t hurt me)

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:51:30 +0000

There is something apt about Irving Kristol playing a cameo role in Endgame.

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By: Irving the Grouch

Irving the Grouch — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:45:30 +0000

Bitch I live in a fully furnished gold plated trash can!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:37:59 +0000

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