Someone get a copy of this TL to Yglesias and Klein; I'd love to see a Weeds episode on it.
It would indeed get interesting.
What is it with Austria and its economists? I've occasionally wondered.
We can "thank" Friedrich Hayek for a
lot of mischief over the years.
You can count on Friedman to see everything as numbers and nothing as flesh and blood.
Well, at the very least everything as idealized philosophical constructs and nothing as human, much less humane.
I think it was TV Tropes that described your prose as Thompson-esque, and I'm starting to see where that came from.
Yeah, it gets in there at times. And, bourbon-drinker from LOU-UH-VULL that Thompson was, he's one of the first to identify and lay out in strategic terms what one might call the profundity of Dixie in the really
visceral opposition to McGovern. The distance between McGovern Derangement Syndrome and Obama Derangement Syndrome can chiefly be spanned by adding the word "... lover."
McGovern is a railfan? Huh.
Yarp. Not, y'know, a hard core anorak (as the Brits would say) who gets all the newsletters, but a considerable low-key railfan nonetheless. It's that McGovern as The Last Progressive upbringing out on the Great Plains where the Braudelian mathematics of social geography, as it were, ran on the lines of "no railroad here OK YOU DIE NOW." Mitchell was a college town, and a tourist town what with the Corn Palace, but also very much it was a railhead town, one of the key stops along South Dakota's actually-populated geographic spur east of the Missouri River. Even in his ginger-group "move the party leftward" primaries run in 1984 IOTL, in the brevity of his campaign pamphlets (thanks, 4President.org!) one thing McGovern mentioned was the opportunity to recapitalize America's rail system into the best in the world, and the effects that would have on (1) US agriculture and (2) economic development in rural areas and secondary cities. So, yeah, he was partisan.
Of all people, I suppose Ford would have an eye on what Donna in Peoria could stomach.
Yes - and he's married to Betty, who he both loves pretty much unconditionally and has given him some considerable stick about this proposal in private.
Of course Jumpin' Jim made an appearance.
Accept no substitutes. Also, this should come as no surprise: McGovern has a thing for iconoclastic WWII vets,
being one and all.
Two things. One, I can't stop chortling at "Flurb". And two, might we see this precedent being moved down to the NCAA at some point?
DO THE FLURB. Also, that's a ways down the Butterfly Field but the concept is out there now, and it is really a more vigorous model than the MLB approach. So whether it does or it doesn't, the whole Gramscian war-of-position deal has shifted towards that angle through this measure.
When it comes to insurance and pharmaceutical policy, I find myself agreeing with a certain Arizonan's declaration on the Eastern Seaboard.
It can be A Thing, that is true.
I see what you did there...
Buh bye, Damascus.
That said, one thing about History as it exists across all the time streams is, it likes to rhyme. Where, and how, and whether it will or won't even
involve the United States,
if anything does happen, remains to be seen.
And with that, an unforgettable marker in American political history is created. Not as quotable as "you're no Jack Kennedy", perhaps, but far more indicative. Things have been laid out as they are, but not like Helms might have wanted.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE WHITE HOOD BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
It certainly speaks of a
very inconvenient truth for the right. Nixon had already brought the conversation well along Lee Atwater's "you can't just shout The N Word anymore" path on tax relief, the dignity of work, law and order, etc., but this is a reminder that on beyond Goldwaterite neo-feudalist free market nostrums, the real
core of resistance to McGovern's meta-economic program comes from folks who wouldn't even let slip their sword from their cold, dead hand if you so much as
think about empowering black folks. Also Jesse has enough feral cunning to get Atwater-smart after this
faux pas, indeed for His People he can now let that hang out there in perpetuity, so they always have the comfort of
knowing he believes what they believe, they can let that pass in silence now and get on with, y'know, denying people of color a viable future.
