***Updated***
Amazon owner Jeff Bezos is beginning to leave his mark at The Washington Post.
Out is Ezra Klein, in are Eugene Volokh and Reason's Radley Balko.
That thud you just heard was the collective concussion of the cracking left.
Good.
Something tells me it ain't stopping there.
I can't bear to listen to pompous hipsters like Klein and Yglesias talk about finance, business and economics anymore. It was way too cruel. Knuckleheads who aren't even businessmen passing comment on it. What the fuck was WaPo thinking? Salon (or is it Slater Yglesias writes for?) I get but what's the Washington Post's excuse?
"Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence."
This - Klein - was their 'econ' writer? He also penned an article 'Obamacare is winning' in 2010.
Oof.
That's not an economist. That's a hipster sycophant with scant knowledge of history and economics.
Bezos did the right thing cutting him - especially since he had the chutzpah to ask for $10 million to start his own blog.
More gushing Yglesiklein here.
Amazon owner Jeff Bezos is beginning to leave his mark at The Washington Post.
Out is Ezra Klein, in are Eugene Volokh and Reason's Radley Balko.
That thud you just heard was the collective concussion of the cracking left.
Good.
Something tells me it ain't stopping there.
I can't bear to listen to pompous hipsters like Klein and Yglesias talk about finance, business and economics anymore. It was way too cruel. Knuckleheads who aren't even businessmen passing comment on it. What the fuck was WaPo thinking? Salon (or is it Slater Yglesias writes for?) I get but what's the Washington Post's excuse?
"Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence."
This - Klein - was their 'econ' writer? He also penned an article 'Obamacare is winning' in 2010.
Oof.
That's not an economist. That's a hipster sycophant with scant knowledge of history and economics.
Bezos did the right thing cutting him - especially since he had the chutzpah to ask for $10 million to start his own blog.
More gushing Yglesiklein here.
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