Via the excellent Julian Sanchez comes this snippet illustrating the difference between traditional and legal-rational authority. Tom DeLay wants to smoke in Tom Khandker’s restaurant:
Khandker: “I’m sorry, sir, but this is a federal building, and it’s against the law of the federal government.”
DeLay: “I am the federal government.”
But Khandker stood his ground, and DeLay and […]
David Adesnik runs across a quote from Marx describing Marx’s own efforts to speculate on the stock market and comments
You know, if Marx had just written a book called “The Working Man’s Guide to the Stock Market” everyone would’ve turned out rich and happy and we all could’ve avoided that whole unpleasant business with Lenin […]
Behind the curve but gathering momentum, Patrick Ruffini joins Michael Totten in some absurd hand-waving about left- vs right-leaning bloggers. Patrick believes that Glenn Reynolds, Steven Den Beste and the troglodytes over at Little Green Footballs “are all beautiful prose stylists.” I think Patrick needs to broaden his range of reading so that he has […]
So I’m working away here by the pool of the Hotel Del Sol here in San Franciso, and this couple drive up next to me and go to check in. Their three-year-old wanders around, and looks at the pool. His Dad comes out with the keys and says “Hey, isn’t that a nice pool?” The […]
I’m in San Francisco this weekend, going to a wedding. Hope you’ll all survive without me. Did I mention that I love wireless connectivity? Also, I love Millennium, a fantastic restaurant located at 580 Geary Street in downtown SF, in the Savoy Hotel. It only serves vegan food. I’m not a vegan myself (the […]
Kevin Drum is exactly right about this piece of crap from David Skinner. Kevin’s post reminded me of this Keith Knight cartoon which makes the same point about reaction to Halle Berry and Denzel Washington at the Oscars.
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