Matt Yglesias

23 Responses to “Endgame”

1. Greg Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

   I love how that one stag crosses into Germany a few times a year, but always returns to the Czech Republic.

   Pretty much the opposite of every other male in Germany – and the rest of Western Europe for that matter.

2. David Sucher Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

   As to the song, create a Pandora station and/or do some iTunes “Genius” run.

3. dontcallmefrancis Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 7:02 pm

   If Palin endorses Kirk it will be the death knell of his campaign.

   I’d be willing to bet he even loses in his own district at that point.

4. JoshM Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 7:02 pm

   opening beats sound like Silence of the Lambs (during the tuck/”I’d f*** me” scene)…

5. IMUnaware Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

   Maybe it reminds you of every song by Morrissey.

6. Geoff Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

   That song sounds to me like a sped-up, slightly more upbeat version of Joy Division’s Atmosphere.

7. Richard Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

   I second the Joy Division reference.

8. Led Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   Maybe it reminds you of every song by Morrissey.

   More like Joy Division, but it’s definitely a 1980’s new wave/post-punk pastiche.

9. Dave Hughes Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

   It sounds exactly like “Temptation” by New Order.

10. hugo Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    I also hear more New Order than Joy Division, but of course that’s a ridiculously fine distinction.

    Atmosphere is such an incredible song.

11. dontcallmefrancis Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    It’s “the village” by new order.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd6P5H9ZUVk

12. max Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    I second the New Order and the Joy Division, but more ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ than ‘Atmosphere’ (for the speeded up beats and the deeper sounding vocals).

    I would also say there’s a distinct touch of Dream Academy in the keyboards and the framing.

    Heh: howabout New Order covering Joy Division?

    max
    ['Weaker than the other two, duh.']

13. fostert Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Twist a knife deeper? Huh? If you twist the knife, it doesn’t go deeper. It just cuts more flesh and is extremely painful. But it doesn’t go deeper.

14. live Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    Agree with the Joy Division/New Order call, but also it could conceivably be reminding Matt of something by Magnetic Fields.

15. fostert Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    Funny story about the deer, and that challenges some theories about intelligence. You’d think delusion would require intelligence. But deer seem to go against that. Deer are pretty much the dumbest mammals on the planet. Slightly smarter than kangaroos, but that’s not saying anything. But the average house mouse is far more intelligent than a deer. And if you think I should readjust my thinking about deer intelligence, think again. They are still stupid. I have those fuckers in my yard all the time. And trust me, they are dumb as shit. A deer will still watch a car hit them because they are fascinated by the headlights. What makes a kangaroo even dumber is that they’ll do it during the day.

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17. Glaivester Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

    The “Silence of the Lambs song” is “Goodbye Horses” by Q Lazzarus.

18. Max424 Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 12:44 am

    It is all about Af-Pak Hands.

    Afghanistan is America’s last best chance to get control of the DoD and make it into something useful. The DoD may never be a force for good, but perhaps it can be neutralized, and when we need it on occasion, it can actually perform a function without royally fucking things up.

    Afghanistan is experimental ground for the military and for our country. A Final Trail. If the military and the DoD fails in Afghanistan, they will remain what they have been since the inception of the Cold War -an incredibly expensive, self-perpetuating BLOWBACK MACHINE.

19. Max424 Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 1:26 am

    fostert

    You were pretty tough on the deer and the kangaroo, fostert. What about the moose? A moose is pretty dumb. Hunting moose is no more challenging that shooting cows in a field. A moose is a slow witted milk cow with a really nice rack.

    I agree on the house mouse, though. I feed a neighborhood squirrel peanuts out my back door. She (a chubby gray squirrel) knocks on the door, usually twice a day, and I toss her some nuts. Whenever my squirrel scurries away to bury one of the nuts, a little house mouse sneaks out from a woodpile and steals one or two of my squirrels nuts before she can return. Pretty smart, eh? Pretty sneaky mouse.

    I’ve watched squirrels outsmart my cats for 35 years. I’ve watched cats outsmart my dogs for even longer. If a squirrel is smarter than cat, and a cat is smarter than a dummkopfer dog, and a house mouse is outsmarting my squirrel, that means if we apply infallible logic, the house mouse is top dog -so to speak.

20. fostert Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 3:17 am

    “You were pretty tough on the deer and the kangaroo, fostert. What about the moose?”

    Moose aren’t particularly smart, I’ll agree with that. But they will put out fires to prevent their habitat from burning down. Deer won’t do that. As for kangaroos, I’ve seen hundreds of dead ones lying on the side of the road. They litter Australian roads with their corpses. The two live ones I’ve seen were in the middle of the road and only lived because I stopped in time. And they really don’t think a car coming at them at seventy miles an hour poses any kind of threat. And that’s why you see them dead on the side of the road all the time. Although the armadillo might be dumber. Their survival instinct is to jump. If they just stayed on the road, a car would go right over them. Instead the jump and get hit. And yes, the house mouse is the top dog. They are actually quite intelligent. Ever wonder why Douglas Adams chose them as the most intelligent beings of Earth? And here’s a weird thing about the house mouse: there’s only one species. They followed humans wherever humans go. A mouse in Bangkok is the same mouse in New York. And they’ve been extremely successful even though we don’t like them. They can’t swim across the ocean, but they will hitch a ride on our ships. Those little buggers have pretty much outsmarted us. And it’s the perfect adaptation. Hang out with an animal that builds a great environment for them and wastes food. What we waste is more than enough for them. They live large.

21. fostert Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 3:54 am

    Another interesting thing about the house mouse as that it’s the only animal species other than humans that lives on every continent, including Antarctica. We try to not bring them with us, but we never succeed. They really are crafty little buggers. They have my respect.

22. Max424 Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 4:23 am

    fostert re: moose activities “But they will put out fires to prevent their habitat from burning down.”

    Firefighting moose! I like it. Ok, the moose must be placed ahead of the deer, unless, of course, moose are routinely incinerated trying to fight forest fires, instead of doing the smart thing, and fleeing at the first whiff of smoke.

    fostert re: impacted armadillos “Although the armadillo might be dumber. Their survival instinct is to jump. If they just stayed on the road, a car would go right over them. Instead the jump and get hit.”

    Leaping armadillos! That is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard, fostert.

    Hopefully, 10,000 years from now, after painfully slow incremental evolutionary advancements, the armadillo will be genetically programmed to assume the tuck position when whatever high velocity machine we have in the future is bearing down on them.

    fostert re: seagoing mice “…they will hitch a ride on our ships. Those little buggers have pretty much outsmarted us.”

    That little house mouse is outsmarting my squirrel, that’s for sure!

    But, no harm, no foul. My squirrel is none the wiser, and she is getting fatter every day, thanks to me, and should survive the winter.

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    November 5th, 2009 at 9:05 am

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