Matt Yglesias

19 Responses to “Endgame”

1. Jay Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

   Let’s Go Pens!

2. 24AheadDotCom Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

   - Now I find out that the Democrats’ fave “affirmative action baby” is also a member of a women’s only group.

   - Mike Murphy has some bad advice.

3. Al Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

   The July issue of The Atlantic (not hyperlinkable yet)

   Meh. Doesn’t exist yet.

4. hrrhf Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

   Bloom is great and it’s as if Wes Anderson and David Mamet made a movie together, without the overwhelming amount of excessive quirk of the first and the overwhelming amount of depressing people of the second.

5. Craig Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

   Deepak Bhargava vastly mistates the record of the Clinton admninistration on poverty. Clinton dramatically expanded the Earned Income tax credit and while many people on the left really hate welfare reform it actually improved the lives of people as they left the welfare rolls and got paying jobs. Also welfare reform was politically necessary because the old welfare system alienated voters whose support the left ultimately needs to enact its agenda.

6. Everyone Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

   Shut the fuck up, LoneWacko.

7. Vidor Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

   Making the position of heir to the Presidency an appointed rather than elective office is a deeply stupid idea.

8. Duvall Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

   I don’t know, Everyone. I think alienating the Hispanic vote is a great idea for the GOP, and I encourage Lonewacko to spread this gospel to Republicans everywhere.

9. Joshua S. Day Says:
   June 12th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

   It must be getting pretty lonely for you right wing nutjobs, with the best and brightest of you going to hell and all. But by all means keep being racist. Americans love it when you do that.

10. Matt W Says:
    June 12th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    I liked Bloom, but I’m not sure I’d say it was any less quirky than Wes Anderson. I mean, say what you will about Anderson, I don’t think any of his movies have ragver fprarf va eulzr (rot13ed for spoilers).

11. 24AheadDotCom Says:
    June 12th, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    Duvall has neither the brainpower to understand my argument nor the balls to reveal its real name. Sadly, that’s also true of most of MattY’s other commenters. No one here or elsewhere is almost ever able to present a logical counter argument to what I write; it’s like Idiocracy meets Groundhog Day.

    Also, this post might be a helpful thing to understand; you’re never really anonymous on the web.

    Also, this is even dumber than something MattY would write.

12. AssForAHeadDotCom Says:
    June 12th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    I always find the best way to get people interested in my blog is to insult them. So click on this, you drooling assholes.

13. brian Says:
    June 12th, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    You’ll like the movie, but the ending will make you angry. It could have been so much more.

14. Richard Steven Hack Says:
    June 13th, 2009 at 12:36 am

    Sanctions on North Korea…Sure, stop one of their ships, start a war.

    Naturally nobody on the UN Security Council cares, since they aren’t going to be the ones doing the dying.

    Since the West has allowed the Korea problem to sizzle for fifty years – exactly like the Palestinian issue – until there ARE NO solutions to it, the West now has three options:

    1) Back off and tell South and North Korea it’s entirely their problem now. No US troops, no aid to either side, fix the problem yourselves and if you start a war, we don’t care and we aren’t taking part.

    2) Give North Korea what they want – food and fuel so the Dear Leader can proclaim how he outwitted the US and can stay in power for another generation. So who the hell cares? It costs us a few billion dollars and avoids a war. Plus he has to rejoin the NPT, scrap his nukes, and sign the Additional Protocol. And WE have to actually give him the fuel, the food, and the light water reactors we originally promised and then reneged on.

    3) First strike with nuclear weapons on North Korea. Has to be nukes because their stuff is buried too deep.

    Take your choice. Those are the only three options left.

    Sanctions are meaningless because, as an article I just read says, North Korea is doing over 30% more business with China who doesn’t care about sanctions. And China will not allow North Korea to collapse because it doesn’t want the refugee problem, and it won’t support the US or South Korea invading because it doesn’t want US bases on its borders. So the North doesn’t care about sanctions because China will be remain their ally.

    So either back off or give the North what it wants. Anything else, you’re going to end up with a war that kills another million or two million civilians, beggars one of the biggest “Asian Tiger” economies – which WILL affect the US economy, and costs the US more hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands – TENS or SCORES of thousands – of US military lives.

    Make your choice. Obama appears to be too stupid to do so. All he can do is re-iterate old Bush talking points.

15. bob h Says:
    June 13th, 2009 at 7:37 am

    I found “The Brothers Bloom” absolutely excruciating to sit through. I only stayed because I have a thing for Rachel Weitz
    and I thought there might be a scene with her clothes off.

16. JT Says:
    June 13th, 2009 at 7:51 am

    ‘Cause nothing says suckysuckcess in Iraq like a pay off to surly, ignorant, and incompetent transit workers!

17. JT Says:
    June 13th, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Well now it’s official!
    ObaFuhrer’s nimbus of holy beneficence, the certain efficacy of which has been tattooed by the lefties like the drumbeats in old Tarzan movies, has once again spread its magical powers across the MidEast as his saintly imprimatur has doomed the “reform” movement of Tehran’s KosKids.
    How many more majic ponies does ObaFuhrer have in his stable?
    And just think! Two more weeks and all American troops leave Iraq’s cities!
    Hooray!
    Oh wait, we are talking ObaFuhrer right?
    In that case…

18. joe from Lowell Says:
    June 13th, 2009 at 11:18 am

    When LoneWacko shows his filthy face again, bury him with this link.

    Founder of the Minutemen. Scum.

19. Andrew Says:
    June 14th, 2009 at 2:25 am

    The Brothers Bloom is what i think the bastard love child of Jean Luc Goaddard and Shinchiro Watanabe would be like, beautiful, charming, unapologetically cinematic and whimsical, superbly acted and amazingly directed, also check out Brick by the same director