TNR's PR folks emailed me a link to this article with the note that he thinks my readers and I would enjoy this article. Because there's nothing my readers and I enjoy more than poorly written articles making fun of libertarians.
The LP convention is, of course, a freak show. But it's our freak show. And the things that make it funny and a little inspiring are not the things the article captures. Reading it kind of reminded me of Matt Labash's review of Saved.
This article is poorly wrote? foreal?
So now you’ve officially become a member of the Libertarian Party?
This article is poorly written? Really? I mean, I understand your frustration at the portrayal of a nominating convention in the style of a fictional story, but, to be quite honest, I found it rather refreshing and entertaining. Methinks you're taking internal Libertarian party politics a bit too seriously.
TNR's PR folks emailed me a link to this article with the note that he thinks my readers and I would enjoy this article. Because there's nothing my readers and I enjoy more than poorly written articles making fun of libertarians.
And people say Americans don't get irony.
Not to sound like a grammarian, but shouldn't the period be a comma? Otherwise sentence fragment.
"TNR's PR folks emailed me a link to this article with the note that he thinks my readers and I would enjoy this article. Because there's nothing my readers and I enjoy more than poorly written articles making fun of libertarians."
Not to sound like a grammarian, but shouldn't the period be a comma? Otherwise sentence fragment.
If McArdle's readers wanted to read poorly written crap that makes libertarians look like idiots, they'd read her blog.
Jesus gets the cookie.
Although some of us enjoy making fun of poorly written crap by pseudo-libertarian Republicans.
Blake said:
Not to sound like a grammarian, but shouldn't the period be a comma? Otherwise sentence fragment.
Personally, I would have used a semicolon, though I see what she was going for.
The period is fine; the rule everyone learns in elementary school about not starting sentences with a conjunction is a crock of shit, it was originally intended as a rule of thumb for small children to keep them from writing sentences without verbs and/or subjects (ie, "I ate my fish. And ran away."), but its taken on a life of its own because of poorly-educated teachers.
The worst part of the article was the illustration. I think I identified most of the people in it. But what was with the Marylin Manson look a like?
And was that pirate supposed to be Starchild? If so, they did the impossible and make him look ugly.
:)
I saw more suits than usual at the Denver convention. That said, there was a good number of people who stood out from the crowd. But that's been my experience attending GOP and Democrat events, too: The nerdy loon with his jacket covered with campaign buttons, the feminazi screeching about a patriarchal head table, the people parading bloody corpse manniquins, the doofus buttonholing people about his research that proves McCain is not eligible to run for President because he was born in the canal zone, zealots carrying huge posters of aborted fetuses, Che t-shirts, drunks, etc. etc.
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing: the LP convention is hardly the only political freak show that gets press in this country. You've got people dressed up like aborted fetuses at the Republican Party convention (and hell, take CPAC as a whole), not to mention the mere presence of people like James Dobson, Pat Robertson, etc...people who are a lot scarier on the inside than the outside.
And of course the Democratic Party Convention plays host to a substantial group of people who probably haven't showered, shaved, or combed their hair since the Carter Administration.
What a tired, tired headline.
Just give in, Megan. You're not a writer. Admit it to yourself . . . and always remember that there's a job waiting for you at the plastic flower factory.