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The Off-Beat Observations Of Jeff G.

Posted on | February 9, 2010 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

The Onanny State:

That progressivism…keeps failing as it runs into the realities of the market…seems never to trouble those like Surber; in fact, their idea of intellectualism, inasmuch as it brackets actual data in favor of privileging political and social desire, is not really intellectualism at all. Instead, it’s a rather wordy masturbation fantasy.

Protein Wisdom, indeed.

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Comments

8 Responses to “The Off-Beat Observations Of Jeff G.”

  1. Ric Locke
    February 10th, 2010 @ 4:15 am

    Errr… methinks a </blockquote> got lost or misspelled.

  2. Ric Locke
    February 9th, 2010 @ 11:15 pm

    Errr… methinks a </blockquote> got lost or misspelled.

  3. smitty
    February 10th, 2010 @ 11:17 am

    No, it was the URL back to PW.

  4. smitty
    February 10th, 2010 @ 6:17 am

    No, it was the URL back to PW.

  5. serr8d
    February 10th, 2010 @ 12:57 pm

    Let’s see Liberal Arts academicians do a thing to, say, improve any human’s lifespan or get us closer to Mars. Best they can do is slow us down, as Obama’s done by slashing NASA, with demands for socialistic equivalences.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with Liberal Arts studies, mind you. The argument was over who should be worth more on the open market: hard science academes (producers of the ‘good stuff’) or fluttery (softer) liberal arts ‘thinkers’ (consumers, mostly). Lefty Professor Surber wants more cash for his profession, and has butthurt that he’s perceived as less useful.

    News Flash! You are useless, Surber. And worth much less to me than is my dentist, AFAIC.

    Be sure to visit Jeff’s first linky to David Thompson, for more perspective.

  6. serr8d
    February 10th, 2010 @ 7:57 am

    Let’s see Liberal Arts academicians do a thing to, say, improve any human’s lifespan or get us closer to Mars. Best they can do is slow us down, as Obama’s done by slashing NASA, with demands for socialistic equivalences.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with Liberal Arts studies, mind you. The argument was over who should be worth more on the open market: hard science academes (producers of the ‘good stuff’) or fluttery (softer) liberal arts ‘thinkers’ (consumers, mostly). Lefty Professor Surber wants more cash for his profession, and has butthurt that he’s perceived as less useful.

    News Flash! You are useless, Surber. And worth much less to me than is my dentist, AFAIC.

    Be sure to visit Jeff’s first linky to David Thompson, for more perspective.

  7. Blake
    February 10th, 2010 @ 6:19 pm

    A liberal Arts major such as Surber will never understand that without capitalism, he’d actually have to work for a living.

    I suggest Surber head to Africa, find a tribe of hunter/gatherers and see just how well he can live with them by just waving around his degree.

    Such a person cannot imagine how quickly he would become useless if society were to collapse.

    Only a rich society can afford a luxury item like Jere Surber.

  8. Blake
    February 10th, 2010 @ 1:19 pm

    A liberal Arts major such as Surber will never understand that without capitalism, he’d actually have to work for a living.

    I suggest Surber head to Africa, find a tribe of hunter/gatherers and see just how well he can live with them by just waving around his degree.

    Such a person cannot imagine how quickly he would become useless if society were to collapse.

    Only a rich society can afford a luxury item like Jere Surber.