Comments on: Missing Link Daily

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:24:04 +0000

James and Ken, your kind words are a balm to my wounded soul.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:29:03 +0000

The Iowahawk adaptation was a real beauty. My personal fave for the week though was Tyler Cowen quoting Arnold Kling: Arnold Kling, as quoted:

Which do you think takes a bigger toll on the environment, owning a dog, or owning an SUV? My bet would be on the dog. I'm thinking of all of the resources that go into dog food.

Tyler Cowen's punchline:

And if you believe in a zero or very low discount rate, don't forget to count all those puppies too.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:42:25 +0000

Andrew

That’s why I said he was probably right this time. It was just a snide sideswipe at Monbiot, I confess.

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:56:44 +0000

Monbiot’s piece is basically just reporting on the latest report in the Science journal, so I don’t think you can be too critical of the source. (and his take on the journal piece basically matches what the New York Times says, so I assume his assessment is accurate as well)

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:21:25 +0000

Let me (like Brendon) join in your apology with a fulsome and compassionate spirit, betokening the deep and abiding hurt that has been unintentionally caused to your creative spirit, Paul. Comrade. Not that I take any personal responsibility, you understand, but I’m very very sorry just the same. Mind you, it’s your own bloody fault for writing at that poxy blog Larvatus Prodeo. Still, I’m really sorry and hope you’ll draw great comfort from my words of consolation. Hang on, where are you going? Typical bloody lefty. Always whingeing and moaning. I told ~~Malcolm~~ James this was a stupid idea.

By: James Farrell

James Farrell — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:56:33 +0000

Paul, the inverted commas were meant to convey that Hilary’s status as a feminist icon is a conventional perception rather than any kind of straightforward fact — assuming there is a meaningful difference between actually being an icon on the one hand, and merely being widely perceived as an icon on the other. But I see that in opting for this inadequate, not to mention lazy, device, I may indeed have caused readers to form the misapprehension that these were your actual words. If you feel that this interpretation distorts your meaning, makes you look like a dealer in cliches, or pains you for any other reason, I will duly petition Ken to delete the offending punctuation, and insert an official correction and apology on my behalf. In any case, allow me to apologise here.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:21:16 +0000

wilful — it’s a bit like the parable of the Good Samaritan. The passage of time has changed the implication or essence of the tale, but it’s still a useful example.

By: wilful

wilful — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:02:04 +0000

Cnut wasn’t deluded, his Court was.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:32:47 +0000

Paul, I didn’t write the blurb about your post. One of the other Missing Linkers did, not sure which one.

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:22:38 +0000

Ken, you and Rebecca both put the words “feminist icon” in quotation marks when referring to my post. I’ve looked at it closely and I can’t find where I used that phrase. I did use the expression “the great symbolic light on the feminist hill of ‘a woman in the White House’” which I think is not an unreasonable rendering of some of the pro-Hillary arguments and comments in the blog I linked to, and in other articles in the US media and blogosphere.

I find Rebecca’s take on my post interesting, but it is not one which seems to be shared by those who have commented on it at LP.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:42:19 +0000

That piece from Marcia Langton was quite bloody good. I hope it gets wide circulation amongst all political circles.

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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:06:09 +0000

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