Questionable Tautologies?
From the incomparable, self-satirizing Stirling Newberry:
Even today there are people arguing that Ayn Rand is a major “liberal” theorist, and fighting to preserve her holy memory on the internet. This from a philosophy that starts out from two questionable tautologies and worships getting cancer. No rhapsody anywhere in Rand’s books surpasses her paean to smoking.
I don’t know, if I’m going to question anything, it’s not going to be a logical truth! And of course, the worst thing about Rand is… what? Smoking! This guy is a master of the unedited non-sequitur brain dump. Does he give money to Josh Marshall or something?
[HT: Diana Hsieh.]
August 23rd, 2006 11:31
Megan McArdle enlists Mark Twain to mock Newberry (partly in response to this post):
http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005865.html
August 23rd, 2006 15:41
Is it my fault or his if I have absolutely no idea what he is trying to say?
August 24th, 2006 06:51
I can’t believe he’s for real. In a few months he’ll tell everyone that the game’s up.
August 24th, 2006 07:09
Oh, C’mon, Newberry is a satirist. Has to be. Maybe not a very good one, but really, no one can actually be making those statements seriously.
Can they?
October 3rd, 2006 17:53
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