Matt Yglesias

11 Responses to “Life in the Big Time”

1. me Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 10:36 am

   me: yglesias murdered another graph
   me: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/07/oil-price-madness.php
   XXXX: how can yglesias be so lazy?
   me: haha
   XXXX: I mean, if he just never read comments that would be one thing
   me: i don’t think he was always this lazy
   XXXX: but he doesn’t even read HIS OWN POSTS
   me: i’d leave a comment
   me: but he clearly doesn’t give a shit anymore
   me: it certainly wouldn’t shame him into shaping up
   XXXX: that lazy fuck
   XXXX: yeah in that ryan powers basketball graph
   XXXX: a bunch of people called him out
   XXXX: and nothing
   XXXX: it’s probably still in his archive
   XXXX: that exact same way
   me: i wonder if he still resembles a beanbag chair

2. DAS Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 10:37 am

   Don’t all of us Jews look alike?

3. Don Williams Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 10:52 am

   New NEWS: they decided to make a Reality TV show out of Matthew’s formative years: NYC Prep

   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/fashion/05nycprep.html

   An excerpt:
   “Victoria Goldman, the author of “The Manhattan Guide to Private Schools and Selective Public Schools,” suggested that the teenagers’ behavior may have something to do with the private schools in the show — which she said are not top-shelf. (There are no students from Dalton, Brearley, Chapin and Collegiate, to name a few of the most highly regarded schools in the city.)”

   An truth to the rumor that the sex life of the Dalton ..er.ladies couldn’t make it past the TV censors?

4. bend Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am

   i once drunkenly accosted you in new york.

5. Just Dropping By Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

   Sometimes readers recognize me and come up and say “hi”

   It doesn’t count if the readers are also close family members, Matt.

6. Don Williams Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

   Re DAS at 2: “Don’t all of us Jews look alike?”
   ———
   Even if you accept that proposition, the logical converse is Not true. That is, Not all people who look Jewish are Jews.

   For example: http://www.newsweek.com/id/204874

   “Narika Hama, a professor of economics at Doshisha University in Kyoto, is a sort of Japanese version of Paul Krugman—if Paul Krugman were a woman with a purple rinse, pink jacket, funky blue jeans, black patent leather pumps, and a vague British accent.”
   ———-
   OOOOOooooo! Don’t TEASE me.

7. Clark Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

   Matt Stoller? I thought you were Jerome Armstrong.

8. Paul Camp Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

   Krugman must have been wearing his stupid hat.

9. TRIATHLON Says:
   July 5th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

   (NEWS WORTHY?)

   (The Eleven Year Old Brat!)

   Now, every father is proud of their kids growing up, closer to the day when it was just the two of us. But, (Happy Birthday Malia?) give me a break, we have millions of eleven year olds whose parents have no idea how they are going to feed their eleven year old or the other in the family, or the eleven year old of a service member in a combat zone who may never see them again, or worse see what is left of them missing parts of their bodies not knowing what they will do next. But, its Happy Birthday Malia, just finished a vacation at Camp David and off to Moscow for a vacation before going to the Hampton for another vacation.

   (Palin Polarizing)

   Now, who cares if Palin quit her job, in fact there are (544) more in the Empires Sacred City that should follower her wise decision and quit, don’t hold your breath they would just be replaced by another member of the family. Since she has time on her hands maybe see can hitch a ride with the eleven year old brat on Air Force One, and take a vacation in Moscow on the taxpayer dime. As if we don’t have enough in the unemployment line. The Media has not figured out it is the New ME Generation Politician, it is not about the STATE, or the People of the STATE, it is simply about ME, ME, ME!

   (Wacko-Jacko)

   The Next Graceland, and Madonna Plans Jackson Tribute, well maybe the old broads go at a come back tour will be more successful than Wacko’s. Now, the entertainment industry is in a pickle, no one can afford the costs, the industry, the sponsors, or the public, the public is out of work, the sponsors are bankrupt, the Stars are over paid and the Writers are under paid, the cost of theater tickets plus the parking and treats are not worth it if you may be looking at the unemployment line in the next couple of months. And, this is NEWS Worthy?

   (Suck It Up Nay Sayer)

   Lets see we may be looking at Black September II, a (2009) Depression, A Nuclear War if BiBi, decides to Bomb, Bomb, Iran, but what is New Worthy is Hot Dog Eater Defends Title, College Athletics Getting Gamed? Next what writing about the itisy bitsy spider claiming up the water spout, and you need a college degree for this? Suck it up, the media loves me, were going on vacation, you nay sayers! A Coreless Me Generation Politician, with empty words, and unfilled promises ME and Mine, Not You and Yours, not WE and Ours, The Day of Reconciling is coming, to those to which much was given and expected, who fail their duties, all shall be taken away.

   JEWS!

   LEVY, DANIEL: We Jews are after all the quintessential, rootless cosmopolitans. ‘Cosmopolitan’, ‘elites’, ‘urbane’, ‘liberal media’ — (Daniel Levy)

10. Jeffrey Davis Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    That is, Not all people who look Jewish are Jews.

    e.g. my grandfather. I spent around 5 years (or more) trying to do enough family research to prove that we were Jewish after several non-family members asserted that we were Jewish because Grandpa looked Jewish and worked in a bank.

    (The sum of my genealogical inquiries: as far as the eye can see, there’s nothing but salt-of-the-earth, subsistence, red-necked English farmers or family-Bible-minding German/Swiss farmers in the family tree.)

11. mim Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 7:56 am

    Not all people who look Jewish are Jews.

    Case in point: When I was a teenager and my mother and I were watching TV, my mother said of the actor on the screen, “He looks Jewish. Who is he?”

    “Edmond O’Brien.”