Actually, that’s my headline. The NYT and Paul Krugman went with something less candid.
And you know, honest.
(thanks to JD)
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update: Speaking of which…
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Deciphering Krugman makes my teeth hurt.
But what we actually became is a nation that judges people not by the color of their skin — or at least not as much as in the past — but by the size of their paychecks. …
Goodbye Jim Crow, hello class system.
Wow. Our society stopped fixating on race and decide to fixate on wealth instead?
Unlike every society in the history of the world? Unlike our fixation with “keeping up with the Joneses” that was not contemporary with Jim Crow and racism?
What a tool.
Since I really hate the game where the author gets to assert what a dead guy would say now, I’ll couch my reply by suggesting King would more likely have found absent fathers as the evil, and Economic inequality a symptom.
But then, I ain’t no MLK either…
did levin get his publisher to get krugman to write this today for his roll out of ameritopia? sad to say probably not.
King would have wanted a country where people weren’t judged on the color of their skin, but rather on the content of their
characterwallets — which had better be the same as everyone else’s, except maybe Mr Krugman’s, because, well, the people who teach us about the necessity of economic conformity are doing the hard work and deserve a little bit extra.In other news, I got another estimate on my tree removal: $2600, this time with a bucket truck that can be driven up my neighbor’s driveway to get the stuff hanging over my neighbor’s garage, with or without cutting the power.
Dude said that if you ask to cut the power, it’s about a three weeks’ wait. Which, we’re up for some pretty sloppy weather this week, so I couldn’t do it right away anyway. But he’d be a 1.5 day job, whereas others would be longer. Not that it matters to me.
Which makes me wonder: I’ve got these estimates of $2500 and $2600 and then the other at $1500. Of course, I’m inclined to go for the lower estimate, but with that kind of disparity, I have to wonder what would be missing.
All three are highly rated on the ServiceMagic site (low-bid guy has the best rating). If they do me wrong, I can ding them with a bad review.
Hmmm.
You can have some illegal do it for $50 and a 10 pack of Wahoo’s fish tacos.
Hard work is what these people are about. They are the best of us and would never rape rape rape America’s bounty, be it by taxing public resources or separating themselves off into little ghettos that refuse assimilation. Only Jesusy people do the rapings of liberty with their refusals to let gays get married which is just what the founders wanted.
Staunch.
Part of the estimates for the trees involves grinding down a maple tree stump, what’s left over from the clan of Polynesians who wandered by when I was out in the yard and offered to take the half-dead thing off my hands.
I didn’t ask for the stump grinding, and it’s about 24 inches off the ground. I imagined carving a chair out of it or a planter.
But now it’s half-rotted and besides it was a bad place for a stump chair, being all out in the open and stuff.
I highly doubt the Polys were illegal, on account of Samoa and Tonga don’t share a border with the U.S. except that big watery one.
“$2600, this time with a bucket truck that can be driven up my neighbor’s driveway to get the stuff hanging over my neighbor’s garage, with or without cutting the power. … But he’d be a 1.5 day job”
he sounds like he knows his stuff?
Yeah, he knows his stuff.
But he’s $1100 more than the low bid. I’m not going to pay the difference unless there’s something significant I’m getting for the higher price.
Somewhere Krugman missed the lesson about the color of freedom being green.
William Damon: The Death of Honesty
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you get the bucket truck;)
Given that the project is all about losing a tree and not getting anything but the place it used to be, as long as dude is insured, I’d take the low bid.
Yeah, but I don’t get to keep the bucket truck. So what’s the point?
a picture on flickr priceless
I’m not spending $1100 to get a photo of the bucket truck. Not even to get a video.
Not EVEN to get a RIDE in the bucket truck, which they’d probably deny because of insurance.
come on action photos. a branch hitting a pikachu.
come on action photos. a branch hitting a pikachu
I can do that with PhotoShop and SnagIt, both of which I already own, so no need for the extra bux.
good luck with the work
Pablo is right. Make sure whoever you hire has Contractor’s General Liability insurance. Dropping a tree on somebody’s roof could get expensive. You don’t want to be left holding that bag and no matter how good the guy is accidents do happen.
oh this narrative disruptor
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Unless you’re in the bucket, it’s not the least bit interesting.
Make sure whoever you hire has Contractor’s General Liability insurance.
They all have it. Low-estimate guy has double the amount of liability as mid-estimate guy. Go figure.
Demonic midgets are evil.
Guaranteed Krugman makes a shitload of filthy lucre.
Romney won. It’s already been decided, so the actual vote total doesn’t matter.
I am trying to decide is Krugman really that fucking stupid or does he just know his readers are?
That circle squares when you realize that Krugman’s readers are as fucking stupid as he is.
protein wisdom: where the cynical masses give a wedgey to the “elites”.
Let’s see … Jim Crow laws that locked people into a status based on their melanin content – something that cannot be changed
and
American “class” system where anyone can rise or fall in regards to their own talent and ambition … and where movement in status is always fluid
KRUGMAN’S RIGHT!!! THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!
I need to take up serious drinking …
We falsified documents to make it look like respected engineers wanted a moratorium on drilling and now gas prices are choking the poor to death, but our secretary’s name is Rodriguez or something.
That’s the crux.
American “class” system where anyone can rise or fall in regards to their own talent and ambition … and where movement in status is always fluid
Not if the Dems have their way. In the new order, your place in society will be determined by your value to the Party. It saves all the fuss and muss of competition, and assures that only the Right People make it to the top.
How’d that Yakov Smirnov joke go again?
In Russia, you can always find a party. In Amerika, Party always finds you.
That seems right, doesn’t it.
“Perhaps it is because slavery and sharecropping are sufficiently distant that they can be used to buttress conservative views that what has been happening to black families is a consequence of an immutable history and is therefore beyond policy intervention. At the same time, liberals use the argument to tie the present problems of blacks to historical injustices, painting blacks as innocent victims.” – Focus Institute study
Although the study seemed reasonable, and the Conclusion* one I generally agree with, I wondered as I read the bit above whether the author was basically saying that conservatives are ignorant while liberals are ignorant and insidious.
Works for me, most of the time…
* the bit quoted above from Conclusion.
Of course if you know anything about poverty in general, and black poverty in particular (i.e. you’ve read any Thomas Sowell at all), you know that the conclusion is based on faulty premises, and thus the entire study is fatally compromised.
Or in plain language, bullshit.
You sure? Those guys are buoyant.
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