I’d gladly move to Gaymenistan, but I’m a little worried that it shares a border with Psychobabylon.

It’s not just Tina Brown. It’s that the NYer really is a national magazine now, and just not important to day to day life, even day to day intellectual life, in the city. Ms. Treasman is a lovely person but her role at the NY is to keep the fiction middlebrow. Same, I’d say, with Remnick and so on. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind middlebrow. I like Sex in the City, even though, of course, I don’t live in that NY. And, yeah, I think the NYer is better than, say, Time. However, it’s been susceptible to same kind of neocon spin as other American magazines. Think, oh, Jeffery Goldberg, for example.

As a resident of the glorious border state of Tennessee, I heart NY. It’s of little comfort that I’ve been told all my life I have a “New York” personality and “talk like a Yankee,” whatever that means.

Ditto here in Mississippi.

You do know that Marxism isn’t a subset of liberalism, right?

It’s been a while since my symbolic logic days but you’re misstating the argument.

In the same awful way libertarians are victims of Economics 101, D.N dozed off before existential instantiation.

I rode up to my hotel room with a man in the elevator who had a picture of a dismembered fetus on his t-shirt. And no one batted an eye.

My friend got coffee at a convenience store and the clerk played a joke on him that burned his tongue, badly. And the clerk laughed.

All the local TV advertisements emphasized that “We’re not New York!”

The locals noticed we were “not from around there” and would not return smiles.

I have gotten more human recognition from homeless people in Manhattan.

That’s the fabled “Heartland.” Where strangers are regarded with outright suspicion, overtly displayed. Where they define themselves by what they are not. Where every face was as white as mine and they still refused to grant even the most fleeting sense of social kinship.

It’s no wonder Dorothy left.

mikey

You don’t know what you’re missing

I think TIDOS might have this cover in mind with that view of the New Yorker. I don’t think he gets that Steinberg was actually satirizing New York style provincialism which gives me a vision of him hopelessly wandering around NYC using this one as his neighborhood map.

but the broad category of “Christian” does not mean “great guy”.

Nor does “liberal.”

I’m not sure what you intend this to mean, but the broad category of “Christian” does not mean “great guy”.

Anyhoo, bored. Sorry for the threadjack.

Obama is not a Marxist, you are a Christian.

What I want to answer is that obviously going to church results in an amount of people doing harmfully irrational things, not you in particular.

Obviously Marxism results in an amount of people doing harmfully irrational things, not Obama in particular, but we should question him nonetheless. Hand me the waterboard!