How To Be A Hack, Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution Edition
Glenn Harlan Reynolds plays a little of the ol’ both sides do it:
The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. So it was after the 2004 election when liberals talked revolution, and so again after 2012, when secession petitions flooded the White House.
You don’t remember large numbers of liberals talking about revolution after the 2004 elections? Silly you! Consider the powerful evidence that Reynolds adduces:
- A first year grad student writing a letter to Cary Tennis, indulging some fantasies about becoming a revolutionary that he or she are enormously unlikely to carry out.
- That is all.
Very convincing! This is a fine tradition for Reynolds, although I thought it was the St. Petersburg Democratic Club, whatever that was, not random anonymous grad students, who spoke for The Left. I’ll have to update my settings accordingly.
sharculese:
February 5th, 2013 at 11:01 am
Well, at least, whether he intended to or not, he’s tacitly admitting that his he-man fantasies are total bullshit.
rea:
February 5th, 2013 at 11:24 am
Also, note: you can find a handful on the left who talk revolution. But on the right, you find them buying up guns and explosives, while babbling about “Second Amendment remedies”.
Todd:
February 5th, 2013 at 11:59 am
How quickly you forget the 20 seconds of B-roll on election day in November on FoxNews showing one member of the Black Panther Party in front of one Philadelphia polling place, quietly and courteously opening the door for voters.
This is how they got the Tsar!
Loud Liberal:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:12 pm
I have a more practical solution. Build an impenetrable, “Chinese Wall” on the Texas border, THE NORTHERN BORDER. Keep those damn Texans out. But first, expel Texas from the Union. They want it, we want it. It should be easy. The only thing Texas is good for is as a nuclear waste dump site anyway. By expelling Texas, we won’t have to worry about the EPA (not that Texas worries much about the captured EPA now), or other pesky regulators. And, better, we could impose a nuisance tax on country music imports.
Tnap01:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Firstly he wasn’t just “any 1st year Grad student”, he was also a Barista at the local underground coffee shop (“Fair trade just as Che wanted”)
and secondly – Ward Churchill.
c u n d gulag:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Yeah, and they have to make sh*t up about Obama, and all we lefties had to do was point to W and his lifelong record of failure and ineptitude.
They send out racist and unfunny “joke” e-mails about President Obama.
But by now, even they realize that W was a joke.
Only no one’s laughing after the devastation he caused.
sharculese:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:33 pm
But Texas makes the best pancakes!
Winchester:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Brian Massumi, in Remains of the Day.
Among the pragmatic ways of resisting:
– declare a Tax Strike;
– don’t give up your guns;
– stop subsidizing cable TV; it’s mostly porn, violence and Marxist agitprop anyway.
The Dark Avenger:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
I’d like the apple pancakes today, Winchester, and the apples should come from groves started by that proto-Marxist who is known to history as Johnny Appleseed.
Uncle Kvetch:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
stop subsidizing cable TV; it’s mostly porn, violence and Marxist agitprop anyway
Too true. They made pancakes on “America’s Test Kitchen” the other day…they looked delicious, and I was really enjoying it, but then Chris Kimball had to go fuck it all up by raising his fist and screaming “ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS!” at the end. Such a disappointment.
Hogan:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:51 pm
Yes, nothing says generosity like stockpiling guns and not paying for your government services.
Loud Liberal:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:54 pm
Would that make Texas a net exporter of obesity and metabolic syndrome?
BigHank53:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:58 pm
At least the guns are easy to auction off after the IRS confiscates them, unlike the 1200 pounds of instant pancake batter and 250 gallon of maple-flavored corn syrup.
NonyNony:
February 5th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
Apparently, pancakes come in all kinds of flavors.
But the pancakes around here always come sprinkled with nuts.
NonyNony:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:00 pm
As I mentioned above, the pancakes we get here only come with nuts.
So … apple-nut pancakes perhaps?
wjts:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
stop subsidizing cable TV; it’s mostly porn, violence and Marxist agitprop anyway.
But I don’t want to live in a world without Cake Kulak, The Real Commissars of Smolensk Oblast, and Here Comes Trotsky Boo-Boo!
sibusisodan:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Hey, if there wasn’t a market for Marxist agitprop, they wouldn’t bother making it, amirite?
Seriously, did Lenin have anything to say about using the mechanisms of capitalism to forment the global revolution, comrades?
NonyNony:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Hollywood is the most purely capitalist place in the world – if it doesn’t make money it doesn’t get made.
I guess that’s all the porn and the violence. PBS must be where we find the Marxist agitprop.
I always knew that Antiques Roadshow was subversive.
sharculese:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Still bitter about Jericho getting cancelled, huh?
Anonymous:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:21 pm
Remains of the Day was a great movie. Remember the scene when Anthony Hopkins eats pancakes with Emma Thompson? Quite a powerful moment.
Fake Irishman:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
But you know what? Up in Quebec they do stockpile maple syrup — And they’re not only commie Canadians, but they speak French too! So LGM’s strategic use of delicious breakfast foods to conduct a War on (some kinds of) Trolls who use (some kinds of) Nonsense (TM) really is a foreign Marxist plot coordinated by the IRS. Why does this blog hate America?
Data Tutashkhia:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Well, he said, of course, that they’ll sell us the rope to hang them on.
DrDick:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
I will have the bananas-nut bread with simple syrup, thank you.
spencer:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:42 pm
+harrumph
spencer:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:43 pm
That show had such potential, but it was completely squandered in the execution.
Ahistoricality:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Nearly irrelevant question. Is citing Reynold’s middle name supposed to signify something? Are there other Glenn Reynolds out there that we need to protect from association with legal “scholarship” and hackish political epigramism? Or is “Harlan” supposed to signify something negative (Appalachian or Southern), the way “Hussein” is emphasized by those who wish to highlight the non-standard background of our president?
ScrewyCanuck:
February 5th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
It’s foreshadowing: all serial killers have three names.
Julian:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:00 pm
I think Reynolds’ middle name is used because Reynolds himself has his middle name in the USA Today byline (or else USA Today requires authors to disclose and use their middle names).
Djur:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Maybe we can give Texas to the Israelis.
Cody:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:04 pm
We really don’t have time to outline all of our reasons, but suffice it to say many of us were deprived of maple syrup when we were younger…
Cody:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:06 pm
^ I think this is it. It stood out to me as soon as I opened the article that for some odd reason his middle name was there.
Just a little jab in there!
rea:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
Or is “Harlan” supposed to signify something negative
It’s actually a positive reference. Reynolds’ dad, if I recall correctly, was something of a liberal activist.
Scott Lemieux:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Amazingly, the younger Reynolds was a student of Charles Black. Apparently, he forgot more than he knew.
olexicon:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
“stop subsidizing cable TV; it’s mostly porn, violence and Marxist agitprop anyway”
Make sure to send this memo to Rupert Murdoch
expatchad:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Better a public health quarantine.
mark f:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
What I don’t like about liberals is all that “the personal is political” stuff.
JMP:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
Yes please, declare a tax strike; it’s always funny to see the principled Libertarians get their asses sent to jail by the IRS because the whiny babies refuse to pay their fair share.
Murc:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
The violence I’ll give you.
Got some cable channels where I can see some porn and Marxist agitprop? I mostly get those online but it would be nice to see them on a big screen while in bed or on my couch. I’m apparently watching completely the wrong channels.
Thanks in advance.
Murc:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
I assumed it was because “Glenn Harlan Reynolds” sounds more stereotypically southern than just Glenn Reynolds.
It’s the sort of name a Kentucky Colonel would have, or a crooked judge, or a country lawyer.
sharculese:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:43 pm
see also: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III
JoyfulA:
February 5th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
And that “Black Panther’s” outfit suspiciously resembled the Philadelphia Police Department’s standard winter uniform.
BigHank53:
February 5th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
All bow down.
BigHank53:
February 5th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Nathan Bedford Forrest.
JKTHs:
February 5th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
Wow I thought you were actually joking about that.
Daverz:
February 5th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Have we forgotten the Texas-Israeli war of 1999 already?
Brandon:
February 5th, 2013 at 3:44 pm
I must have missed what this pancake thing is all aboot
sharculese:
February 5th, 2013 at 3:48 pm
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/09/new-internet-tradition
Dr.KennethNoisewater:
February 5th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
YUUUUUUUUM.
Warren Terra:
February 5th, 2013 at 4:11 pm
It is a well-known fact of the movie industry that the workers control the means of projection.
rea:
February 5th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
No, no–”Harlan,” as the link I give above rather indicates, is only “stereotypically southern” in the sense of black southern. White guys named after the lone dissenter in Plessy and the Civil Rights Cases are a rarity. Note that Col. Sanders (who was from Indiana, anyway) was “Harland,” not “Harlan.”
Warren Terra:
February 5th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
The younger Justice Harlan was – according to Wikipedia, I don’t actually know anything – supposedly good on some civil rights issues but truly awful on voting rights. According to the description at Wikipedia, and reading between the lines, under the younger Harlan poor black and urban folks might as well not try to meaningfully vote in the South.
sharculese:
February 5th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
My associations with the name Harlan are of a certain short-tempered, short-statured Jew whose visions of the future are far more plausible that the Ole Perfessor’s.
DrDick:
February 5th, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Not paying their fair share is the central principle of Libertarianism.
Surreal American:
February 5th, 2013 at 5:04 pm
+1
GeoX:
February 5th, 2013 at 5:27 pm
The book was better: it featured a full all-you-can-eat pancake buffet.
catclub:
February 5th, 2013 at 5:37 pm
and the means of erection
catclub:
February 5th, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Ted ‘serial-killer’ Bundy?
rea:
February 5th, 2013 at 5:56 pm
The younger Harlan was conservative on a lot of things, although he’d be on the left wing of the Court today. But it was the first Justice Harlan who got “Harlan” accepted as a not-uncommon first (or middle) name.
DocAmazing:
February 5th, 2013 at 5:57 pm
win
J. Otto Pohl:
February 5th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Where can I see these shows? I do not think that the South African DSTV network carries them.
DocAmazing:
February 5th, 2013 at 6:00 pm
They’ll sell us the broadcast time to transmit our propagnada, apparently.
DocAmazing:
February 5th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
Hey, man, I gotta pay for those jails. F’in’ moocher Libertarians!
Bill Murray:
February 5th, 2013 at 6:41 pm
I prefer My Dinner with Andre: Pancakes Are Go
DrDick:
February 5th, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Self awareness and Reynolds cannot coexist in the same time-space continuum.
Bill Murray:
February 5th, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Daniel Paul Issel, Louis Dampier and Artis Gilmore were apparently not the right type of Kentucky Colonel.
Colonel Harland David Sanders on the other hand
Bexley:
February 5th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Erik “pointy-stick” Loomis
Uncle Ebeneezer:
February 5th, 2013 at 7:08 pm
John Wilkes Booth
Warren Terra:
February 5th, 2013 at 8:04 pm
I’ve reconsidered: the film industry is inconsistent with Marxism, because it’s the ruling class who control the means of film production.
herr doktor bimler:
February 6th, 2013 at 3:25 am
Another prediction for which Arthur C. Clarke never gets the credit he deserves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_Babylon
IM:
February 6th, 2013 at 4:45 am
Pestilence:
February 6th, 2013 at 8:44 am
OMG someone else read that?
Pestilence:
February 6th, 2013 at 8:47 am
+1
Pestilence:
February 6th, 2013 at 8:50 am
You dont watch LGM-TV 24/7? The marxist propaganda is excellent, as is Farley’s violence schtick. Mercifully short on porn, tho
skippy:
February 6th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
i’m going to use here comes trotsky boo boo somewhere
skippy:
February 6th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
sirhan sirhan
hylen:
February 6th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Is there a +1 button around here?
hylen:
February 6th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
http://tinyurl.com/6qznv7y
Bufflars:
February 6th, 2013 at 6:14 pm
This was very well done indeed.