EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

did i tell u abt the time i got pretzels instead of peanuts on a plane?

what is the deal with that?

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the charming and delicious insularity of bloggers

I've actually always been curious how these dudes make money. Do they have day jobs?

yes, blogging

And someone actually pays them a livable wage to do this?

i dont

i mean

dogg one of these guys writes for the washington post

yglesias is embarrassed about having been a socialist and will occasionally mix in some right wing tinted bullshit to try and build a bit of center cred.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, January 3, 2011 7:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

other than ahem supporting the iraq invasion i really don't see this. he says 'markets' every now and again, is that it? i guess he's been pretty quiet about any doubts about the afghanistan strategy, a little suspect i guess.

(newly famous?) blogger 'ioz' absolutely loathes him, which is kinda entertaining, kinda o_O

How does the Washington Post have money to pay anyone?

theyre owned by massively successful test prep/'education' company

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ioz way more annoying than ygl at this point

i understand he has some problems with 'the state'

what's the next poll: digby vs Greenwald?

shd do a 'most annoying blogger' poll--i feel like there is some kind of bullshit wired article someone could write about 'blogger fatigue,' where when youre reading 10-12 things by these people a day they start to realllly annoy you cause its like youre hanging out with them all the time only youre not allowed to talk

what's the deal w/this ioz person?

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lol @ blogroll

he's an anarchist, man

i feel like there is some kind of bullshit wired article someone could write about 'blogger fatigue,' where when youre reading 10-12 things by these people a day they start to realllly annoy you cause its like youre hanging out with them all the time only youre not allowed to talk

Definitely feel this nausea after reading digby and Greenwald back to back.

he is an entertaining libertarianish gay dude who hates everyone and everything, and writes well i think.

kind of from the "define all problems as being way more deep seated and hopeless than you imagine, so 'doing something' is always stupid" school.

xps

wait is that "deep seeded"? i never know

are we talking about morbs?

its a if morbs were glen greenwald sort of thing

ioz - how do i not know this person. i'm sure i must..

greenwald is gay too xp

ioz is a good counterweight to the "lets think this 1 thru" school of technocratic liberal market-based solutions yglesias stuff that dominates the blogosphere... and wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more hilarious than glenn greenwald

ioz is v challopsy, no doubt about that.

recent controversies: racism didn't end after 1965 so rand paul talking shit about the CRA is nbd and if you complained about it you are probably a racist liberal anyway because obama presides over the drug war.

also, climate change? what, the climate changes all the time.

somehow he still entertains, i dunno

i'm like for real how do i not know this person in dc who is dropping snooty french language references and then posting stuff like too many unsportsmanlike penalties are called on THIS GUY on the steelers. (not enough of those calls are on the steelers imo)

its the ranting, the always on greenwaldian fire hose of anger, these guys are so proud of how mad they are

i can't read greenwald any more. he writes too much. edit that stuff please. get a powerpoint, maybe

Greenwald has other virtues but humor ain't one of them.

i think he is for real in pittsburgh!

i am not impressed! but yes he is funnier than glen

i also don't know how they manage to stay mad for so long! i got tired of that. and being angry on the internet looks pretty silly in retrospect, most of the time

also the showy erudition, plz u know u just looked half that shit up on wikipedia

digby is also exhaustingly mad @ world

balloon juice is borderline too angry abt stuff

never really liked digby.

you know who i miss? hilzoy.

greenwald is gay too xp

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Monday, January 3, 2011 11:04 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Perm

and he lives in brazil, we should kill him

i like john cole on balloon juice but the rest of those guys are scrubs ime

speaking as a gay man, I can affirm that I'm not always angry, but I do get miffed when I'm out of rugelagh, as I am tonight.

man i had to google that

u had to goole it

gooler than me

I do get miffed when I'm out of rugelagh

are those like Celtic rugelach?

i heard goole offered to buy groupon

let me goole that for you

Greenwald has other virtues but humor ain't one of them.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, January 3, 2011 11:11 PM (Yesterday)

yeah my god he is completely humorless, def a flaw of his