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- SOME OF MEGAN McARDLE’S BEST IMAGINARY FRIENDS ARE OBESE: Noted David Foster Wallace scholar and Most Eligible Healthcare Blogger Ezra Klein has some funny remarks about libertarian obesity advocate Megan McArdle: “[N]one of my many talks with obesity researchers have touched on the issue of the poor being idiots. Nor do they seem to think that the obese are insufficiently aware of society’s aesthetic standards. Megan doesn’t have straw men here. She has invented imaginary friends for her argument.” [Washington Post]
i invent imaginary friends for my arguments, too. that way i always win. it’s especially easy when my imaginary friends are straw men (going straight to the devil).
This isn’t just inside baseball, this is inside of a single baseball of useless DC incestuous crap-linking.
Funny how the poor tend to be obese and the wealthy tend to be thin.
Ah yes, the experiential economist. Make her go away. Far away.
Has Megan looked at the ranks of her Cheeto-stained brethren?
Young libertarians have no heart. Old libertarians have no brain.
Wait, obesity is a problem? This is news to me, as all I read are “looking for bbw” posts on Craigslist and the works of NRO columnists.
Haha - this comment slays me:
That was probably longer than her post and you didn’t really say anything.
You’re basically just a control freak with really stupid ideas about how to help people.
You should actually read The Fountainhead. If nothing else it could help you out with making logical arguments. You could always try to model yourself off of Elsworth Toohey. There could be some profit in that for you.
Posted by: fallsmeadjc | July 30, 2009 4:51 PM | Report abuse
Oh, Ayn Rand, is there any discussion your works can’t be shoehorned in to?
In her first argument, she is worried that future generations will not have access to the very best medical technology. In her second argument, she is worried that the government will swoop into poor communities and … give them access to medical technology, and develop programs to reduce the incidence of chronic disease based on the best preventive health-care research. That will interrupt their natural state of being fat and sick, and that’s pretty much the definition of imperialism.
When columnists are bored, they find a libertarian essay — any libertarian essay — and bat it around like a cat with a baby bird. They feel bad about it later (i.e. when they run into their victim at a cocktail party), but it’s quite fun at the time.
Megan can add the following to her list of reasons to choose the “keep everything the same” plan — trying to fix the health care system gives you cancer.
It’s a damn shame and a national disgrace that medical science, with all the munies that are thrown at it, hasn’t been able to invent a cure for the chronically stupid like McFartle.
Cicada: And when i think logic, I think Ayn Rand.
Come here a minute: Ouch. Dodd is having a really bad year.
Megan’s imagination is obese.
Libertarians have no standard aesthetics.
Furthermore, I’ve never met a Libertarian without a limp penis.
Anyone ever seen Megan’a private area?
Ezra just wrote the best sentence ever:
“It’s like she forgot France even existed.”
Chris Dodd has early stage prostate cancer and will undergo surgery. Presser in an hour. Per NPR.
Cicada: would you like to be my imaginary friend?
chascates: Early stage prostate cancer at his age has a good prognosis, generally. Of course he could end up impotent and incontinent post-op. But if worse comes to worse, he and Vitter can trade diaper tips. Silver lining!
Well, someone must stand up for the fat. After a couple of rocking tries and a bit of a hand-pull.
slappypaddy: I already am. Did I just BLOW YOUR MIND?!?
Don Juanquete Yes. There is a tiny pair of horn-rimmed glasses tattooed adjacent to aforementioned private area.
So Megan McArdle wrote a post utterly devoid of facts or logical arguments? You don’t say.
Don Juanquete: “Libertarians have no standard aesthetics.”
One shudders to think what libertarian art would look like. I’m not just talking about pictures of Ron Paul leading children into the bright future or some hobbits or some shit, but art about the human condition as perceived by some Galt motherfucker. I suspect it would be kinda like a pharmaceutical ad mashed up with some vaguely-emancipatory bullshit (w/firearms).
Gosh ,she was so cute when she played Annie!
My ears are so fat and poor that when Crazy Train plays I hear Gravy Train.
Cicada: (slappypaddy’s been nipping at the rat cheese again, his mind so easily blown)
Trying to make sense of the “thoughts” of Megan McArdle, Jonah Goldberg, and their ilk is giving me a monster headache that even primo Universal Health Care couldn’t cure. My imaginary friends are demanding that I leave Wonkette and head over to TMZ to wallow in their all-Michael-Jackson-all-the-time deathstravaganza–it’s less depressing.
finallyhappy: It’s a Hard Knock Life for libertarians on the Wonkett.
Megan models the new Triangle Shirtwaist: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/8122.html
I love how McArdle is so concerned that a government health plan would have an incentive to pretend that they’re giving you the health care, but no real incentive to actually give you the best health care.
Because apparently the current system is better, where the private insurers have a strong incentive to make sure that you get as little actual health care as possible, and in fact hire people specifically to screw you out of your coverage if you actually develop a potentially expensive disease.
Oooh, ding dong, Mr. Klein. I would definitely be his imaginary… umm… friend.
Megan McFartie is to health care as Amity Shlaes is to economics. Neither has any academic or other intellectual training in the field in which they claim expert status. So naturally wingtards go to them for a critical look at health care or economics. For the same reasons I look to Ross Douthat for expert advice on spicing up my sex life.
hobospacejunkie: I am SO stealing that line.
American society doesn’t have any aesthetic standards. I know this, because I have been to the mall.
Cicada: I saw that, and LOL’d.
Ayn Rand’s books are worse than the bible… They say, in plain letters right on the book jacket: FICTION. Yet, the Libertarian Tards still cling to this absurd notion that they are instructional texts: “Have you read this totally true account of the truth as it exists in reality?” (blank stare)
There’s a crater on Venus that’s also named Megan. The crater is 15.8 kilometers in diameter. Therefore, comprehensive reform of the healthcare industry is completely unnecessary.
-Jonah Goldberg
Extemporanus: Yah can’t fool me. That’s a burst pustule on Megan’s behind.
SmutBoffin: Libertarian art:
http://ladyliberty.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/libertarians-for-art-entertainment-and-culture/
Accordion-o-rama: I’m pretty sure that’s what Rand Paul faps to. Thank goodness for those patriotic band-aids.
S.Luggo: You got me! The other two sentences remain true, though.
Accordion-o-rama: Give me TruckTitz® or give me death!
Whose like a giant, aging elf?:
http://www.google.com/reviews/polls/display/4632506987995647358/blogger_template/run_app?
Ezra Klein, chubby chaser?
My very favorite line of Ezra, here:
I’ve left out the last part of her essay because, again, I’m not sure what to do with it. Eventually, she stops saying that wealthy whites will simply sneer at poor blacks and decides that national health insurance is one-stop before fascism. We learn, for instance, that a national health insurance program will lead to the government deciding we can’t eat a second chocolate eclair. It’s like she totally forgot that France existed.