tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2534919217551816409..comments2024-03-28T08:47:33.196-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Fatuous upper-class pundit watch: Successor to Collins and Dowd!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45777029285307480042012-12-14T01:48:03.505-05:002012-12-14T01:48:03.505-05:00lalalal cool layout on this site ^_____^lalalal cool layout on this site ^_____^Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-76801846474086493292011-10-10T10:12:34.557-04:002011-10-10T10:12:34.557-04:00Ms Petri falls into a WaPo gig right out of Harvar...Ms Petri falls into a WaPo gig right out of Harvard and you expect her to be humble. Her connection to the carriage class seperated her from us proles long ago. Her precious insights reflect the experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81672133930358323932011-10-10T08:10:26.717-04:002011-10-10T08:10:26.717-04:00"Tribunes of the upper class have been rollin..."Tribunes of the upper class have been rolling their eyes at the protestors,just as we pseudo-liberals kept doing with the tea party folk"<br /><br />Ouch! <br /><br />But yeah, you're right.Nona Nymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10311052324455523247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62108819981189419822011-10-10T07:40:42.768-04:002011-10-10T07:40:42.768-04:00Here's a generational thing I will just throw ...Here's a generational thing I will just throw out. I am a codger quickly entering my dotage. I have dim memories of a world without an internet. Reporters who are 22 years old today, are probably born in 1989. The internet has been a given for most ot their lives. For me, the internet, and the iPhone which symbolizes it, is about the breaking down of barriers in communication. Famously, according to the New Yorker, no one on the internet know whether or not you are a dog. I just wonder if a reporter like Alexandra Petri, who since her formative years, has lived without the barriers, has the same sense of where those barriers once were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-2233803803947748702011-10-09T18:33:53.657-04:002011-10-09T18:33:53.657-04:00Women don't have a monopoly on bad journalism....Women don't have a monopoly on bad journalism. Apparently <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lawrence-odonnells-racially-charged-attacks-a-political-gift-to-herman-cain/" rel="nofollow">Lawrence O'Donnell's interview of Herman Cain </a><br />was so digusting it even had liberals who dislike Cain screaming at their TV screen.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62875662275299386622011-10-08T19:46:51.833-04:002011-10-08T19:46:51.833-04:00IMHO Petri has conflated two separate problems: wr...IMHO Petri has conflated two separate problems: wrong academic choices and lack of jobs. One demonstrator complained, “I did everything I was supposed to do: went to college, got good grades, participated in sports and clubs, graduated on time. 3 years later I have nothing to show for it,” Another wrote: “Everyone said when I was growing up that if I worked hard + was a good person that I could be anything I wanted to be. . . . Well I’ve worked hard + I think I’ve been a good person and I didn’t want to be . . . the 99 percent,” With student loans easily available, many young people borrowed enormous sums of money in order to get degrees in fields would not lead to high-paying jobs. They will have great difficulty paying off their college loans. They will be burdened by their outstanding loans for many years. These people are right to be bitter. IMHO these young people got bad advice from adults, especially from college advisors. That's who they should blame for their predicament. <br /><br />The other problem is that there aren't enough jobs available for all those who want to work. Even if a particular demonstrator could have done better by making a different career choice, that doesn't change the fact that millions of people have been squeezed out of the employment market. As usual, those suffering the most are minorities, especially black teen-agers. Conservatives say that Obama's policies have made things worse. Liberals say that his policies made things better than they otherwise would have been. Whichever side is right, the fact is that millions of people who want to work cannot get a job.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69518040120145519892011-10-08T18:57:58.613-04:002011-10-08T18:57:58.613-04:00I remember being extremely world weary at that tim...I remember being extremely world weary at that time of my life with a fondness for gauloises cigarettes, although I didn't smoke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63833356794786913932011-10-08T16:29:04.599-04:002011-10-08T16:29:04.599-04:00Alexandra Petri is rich.Alexandra Petri is rich.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4550244729147264572011-10-08T16:28:14.750-04:002011-10-08T16:28:14.750-04:00One sad thing about this, is that there are talent...One sad thing about this, is that there are talented, thoughtful writers out there who would be doing a good job in her place, and they're probably struggling to get by, while she gets money for worse-than-bad writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-42738522670068763602011-10-08T14:57:53.197-04:002011-10-08T14:57:53.197-04:00'Hipster' is in currency right now, referr...'Hipster' is in currency right now, referring to the ironic, young urban set in their 20's and 30's - it's a rather offensive expression, really.Paul Mollicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876872852110424952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19205153554285500012011-10-08T12:55:23.473-04:002011-10-08T12:55:23.473-04:00I wonder what this young lady's definition of ...I wonder what this young lady's definition of a "hipster" is. I haven't seen that word used in years; I remember Norman Mailer using it frequently in "Advertisements for Myself" in the early 60's. As I recall, Mailer used it to describe the "cool" urban dweller—a combination of white (beat) and black (hip) culture. I can't imagine that Petri was using the term this way. Perhaps she met Dick Gregory down on Wall Street, and he used the term. I find its use curious in her blogjhandnoreply@blogger.com