| Subject: RE: The Gentlemen in question.... |
| From: Jason Kuznicki <JKuznicki@cato.org> |
| Date: 11/3/10, 16:33 |
| To: 'Erik Kain' <erik.kain@gmail.com>, William Brafford <williamrandolphbrafford@gmail.com> |
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Good. The
name-calling is way out of bounds by now.
From: Erik Kain
[mailto:erik.kain@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
3:16 PM
To:
Cc:
Subject: Re: The Gentlemen in
question....
Yep. I'm going to ban him
when I can get into the site later today.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:14 PM,
I'm up for banning "Good Grief, the Comedian's Incompetent."
He's been way outside the comment policy for a while now.
-wrb
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:06 PM,
I can't help but answer (I love election night for the same reason I
love baseball statistics and am going to get nothing done): I suppose I'm more
or less indifferent. A lot of that has to do with my problems with the
I was frankly quite intrigued by Rand Paul at first; it didn't bother
me that he wasn't a carbon copy of his father's views; it was mostly his
inability to articulate them coherently that made me worry. That and a
roommate at the time who was an avid Tea Partier but knew nothing about
Kentucky politics and got mad at me for having personally met and liked Trey
Grayon (Paul's primary opponent). I thought Aqua Buddha was the funniest
thing this cycle -- until O'Donnell announced she isn't a witch. And then
Paladino got shitfaced on Halloween. (Really, it's been great.) But what
with Aqua Buddha/10 Commandments ads, and the curb-stomping, I was really torn
between voting for Conway/Nick Naylor out of spite for the curb stomper, or
wasting another US Senate vote on Wendell Berry. (People think Daddy
Paul's a crank? Wait till they see Uncle Wendell at the podium...)
Then I was told there was no way they'd be able to get me a ballot in any
sort of competent and/or timely fashion, and that was that.
I'm also one of those people who wants to throw the bums out -- just
not my bum. I like my Congressman; I also like Ben Chandler in KY-6, for
mostly sentimental reasons. (He's a
As for the big picture: I'm certainly not in line with much of what the
Democratic Party wants to do, but I trust them a hell of a lot more than the
GOP. I'm also kind of holding out for an Obama rope-a-dope post
mid-terms, if only for aesthetic reasons. (Okay, really because the only
Republican I see being competent as president is Mitch Daniels, but he's not
going to win the primaries.) After all, he lost
As for the Tea Party phenomenon: I'm Jewish, applying to graduate
English programs, and think Oakeshott should be required reading for all
elected officials and political commentators (at least those pretending to be
conservatives). Of course angry
populist rage sets off all sorts of alarm bells. Most of them, however,
are probably undeserved.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Scott H. Payne <scott.h.payne@gmail.com>
wrote:
So I can't help but ask: where are y'all at with these midterm
elections?
Since refocusing on Canadian politics, I've come to feel a lot more detached
from your political ongoings. And so the whole thing sort of wafts across my
consciousness in an almost surreal fashion. Were this a year ago, I may well
have taken the day off work to watching things unfold. Not today, though.
But being as that the rest of you are in the thick of it, so to speak, I'm
curious. Are you exhilirated? Hopeless? Terrified? Triumphant? Resigned?
Indifferent? Angry?
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Erik Kain <erik.kain@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM,
So, I've got a silly newbie question: how, exactly, do I get the little
icon thingy by name when I make a comment to be something other than a question
mark?
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Dave Ruggiero <davidaruggiero1973@gmail.com>
wrote:
Well, I almost made another one a few days ago reading some of the
responses to Jason's post about the General Welfare Clause. I think there
were a few commenters that needed to be taken down a notch or two or ten.
Unfortunately, I've been extremely busy so I never had the chance to do it.
That said, I was pleased to see Jason post the Randy Barnett links
since the individual mandate's constitutionality is not the slam dunk its
supporters think it is and that this debate IS being played out in the legal
mainstream. Some of our commenters seem clueless to that fact.
The foreclosure mess has
my attention these days. I knew the origination-to-securitization model
was rotten to the core but I didn't realize it was this bad.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Scott H. Payne <scott.h.payne@gmail.com>
wrote:
Holy shit. It's a Ruggiero siting!
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Dave Ruggiero <davidaruggiero1973@gmail.com>
wrote:
Welcome aboard gents!
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jason Kuznicki <JKuznicki@cato.org>
wrote:
Hugs
all around!
From:
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010
9:23 PM
To:
Cc:
Subject: Re: The Gentlemen in
question....
Yeah, just don't
tell Helen
Cheers,
Scott
On 2010-10-21, at 6:02 PM,