vox · November 19, 2011 · comments

Dialogs & Observations: Episode 1

by Chris Adolph

With apologies to the interlocutors...

ydat

I don’t think he has a sophisticated enough causal story to qualify as “functionalist”, honestly.

You got me: I’m not being fair to functionalism, for lack of a term that encompasses arguments that aspire to functionalist fallacies but fail to, well, function.

So let’s call it magical functionalism! I’m reading Murakami’s latest novel, and this really helps identify the realism in magical realism.

nkaz

...you know, there’s no guarantee this is the Early Anthropocene.

With a raise like that, I think I’ll fold in our 7-card depression game.

What do I win? … Oh.

xkcd

Of course Newt is next. The 2012 epublican primary season is the Fred Thompson experience accelerated and iterated: because no intelligent or skilled politician would adopt its suicidal purity pledges, the party base lurches from one warmed-over loser to the next, dropping them when the rest of the world checks in to expose the incompetence.

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