EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

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

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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

Now suppose he sits down in a room with Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Donohue, and David Koch and persuades all three of those people that this is the right way to proceed.

classic yglesias

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expected more votes and a klein landslide...tho I guess about 16 people post on the politics thread if you think about it

i didn't vote! so it would have been one more, for one of them.

close call!

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jefferson airplane on krugman's blog. give my vote to him.

i missed this thread, but i would've voted for Ezra Klein. mostly because he is more insightful on economics and health care (which are topics i care more about) than Yglesias, whose expertise seems to be foreign policy (which interests me, but not as much). he also doesn't have Yglesia's tendency to disappear up his ass wr2 philosophical musings and such.

things i learned abt matty glesi today: he is a recovering rageoholic, he works standing up now

other things i know: he has lost a lot of weight recently, he is tall

what is rageaholism

it is when u cant get enough of rage i think

wow that would be terrible

working standing up is a donald rumsfeld thing, i wonder if the two are related? seems counterproductive if so

i miss billmon

working standing up is a newly popular weight loss strategy

its also supposed to be good for your heart