Hot Off The Press

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by publius

I just got Yglesias’s book this afternoon. I hope to read it this weekend. I’ve only seen the back cover, but Ezra Klein has a good blurb:

“A very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.”
—Ezra Klein, staff writer at The American Prospect

23 thoughts on “Hot Off The Press”

  1. i wonder what the intersection of Yglesias’ readers with people who get that joke looks like…
    (i was gonna write that in SQL, but i f’in hate SQL)

  2. But what makes it brilliant is that it works equally well for those who *don’t* get the joke. If you don’t get it, it’s just a good positive plug. This is what distinguishes an annoying in-joke from a marvelous one.

  6. Maybe we could write in Anarch style? Something like

    R(y) ∩ L = { ? }

    [drat! I can’t get subscripts to work. Had to use ( ) instead. L = laughing]
    OK, I can’t come up with a decent joke (L is null). Sorry.
    Jes, this isn’t an argument, this is abuse. You want room 12A, just along the corridor.
    I’ll stop now.

  8. “GIMMEH”. Now there is a verb that needs a programming language to go with it. You have a big future in standards committees.

  9. ral, not getting a pun made in SQL is one thing. SQL and PHP are the devil’s playthings. But not recognizing LOLCODE when you see it? Dude, what have you been doing on the Internets, you must have been working or something.
    Next thing you’ll tell us is you don’t believe in teh ceilingcat.
    “An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthxbai.”

  11. the intersection of YglesiasReaders and PeopleWhoGetTheJoke in SQL:
    Select * From YglesiasReaders YR
    Inner Join PeopleWhoGetTheJoke PWGTJ On Yr.ReaderName = PWGTJ.Name
    Order By Yr.ReaderName

  14. Eric Martin, I think that for this thread you will need to clarify what precisely has you befuddled … there is something of a profusion of candidates, after all, from the original in-joke to all the programming (or is it formal logic?) and intertubes in-jokes.

  16. No, no, Pooh, you’re doing it wrong. The way you’ve punctuated the word could so easily be taking as implying a dismissive attitude towards the tribe. I mean, just look at it:
    Nerds.
    Assuming you, as you should, wish to shout the word gleefully, as an exultant and celebratory cry, the proper form is:
    Nerds!

  18. Thanks, Anarch, I needed that.
    I so look forward to the day when there’s a servlet version of LOLCODE so I can write …
    GIMMEH COOKIE

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