Jonah's book was always already forthcoming.
Whole Foods is so far from fascist it isn't even funny. (This reminds me that I really hate Whole Foods and that i really need to find a new job. People in Boston who hear of jobs appropriate for someone who is simultaneously overqualified and unqualified for anything, please e-mail me.)
What does "overqualified" mean, anyway? That they think you're likely to take the first chance you get to ditch them and move on to better things?
Uh huh. I've been there, which is how I ended up in law school.
The funny part is that as Ezra Klein notes the CEO of Whole Foods is a libertarian.
5: He's a freak. He believes that if you eat right, you will never get sick. Our health plan is really shitty. That's partly because all corporations are motivated by profits, and they don't need to offer really generous benefits, but it's also a sort of moral principle: it's your own damn fault that you got sick.
It's a good thing FL is armed with the middle knowlege of Goldberg's face-raping cock.
Whole Foods: Ein Bike! Ein Yolk! Ein Procurer!
it's your own damn fault that you got sick
That's not libertarianism, it's Christian Science. Actually on second thoughts, it's libertarianism as well.
It's kind of an interesting question which title is more bizarre and whacked out. On the one hand, "From Hegel to Whole Foods" simply makes no sense whatsoever. It's like one of those random phrase generators used by spambots. "From Mussolini to Hilary Clinton" *does* make sense, but only within the utterly twisted wingnut frame of reference. Frightening conservatives with the Hitlary thing has been a reliable fundraiser for a decade now. So which is more likely to attract a random bookstore browser, total gibberish or wingnuttery?
Must have been an interesting editorial meeting.
"I hope and pray that, as time goes by, the 20th century will shed the odium that clings to its name, that it may crystalize as the century in which the individual overtook technology--the century in which all the mechanical ingenuity of man, even when fired by man's basest political lusts proved insufficient to sunder man's essential reliance on his Maker, the century in which we learned finally (no, not finally; we never learn finally), or at least for a period, how useless it is, how dangerous it is, to strut about ideologizing the world when we need to know that it was born intractable and will die intractable."-- William F. Buckley. Did you ever see a dream walking?
Aside from regretting that he can't teach Jonah to write smart like, I wonder what Buckley thinks of what's become of his magazine. I imagine that he goes to work everyday, locks himself in his office, pulls out the 50 yr old Scotch, and cranks up Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring loud.
The "whole" in the title is coded language referring to the purity of the national ideal and the exclusion of that which could adulterate it.
Surely there are better nonsense subtitles out there. Hegel to Whole Foods is so ridiculous that you can throw in just about anything you want.
Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Nietzsche to Northwest Airlines
Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Candide to Contraception
Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Plato to Pluto (the Dog)
berube won this with hume to the human league.
I hate everything about Yglesias' taste: from Aristophanes to the Arcade Fire
Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Hugo Grotius to Hugo Boss.
The monster-fighting temptation from Beowulf to Airwolf.
Why not just Calvin and Hobbes to Calvin and Hobbes?
hmm, scans weirder.
John Calvin to Calvin Klein. Damn, Jonah, I owe you for this.
From Franco to Frank Rich.
From Birkenau to Berkeley.
From Kristallnacht to Crystal Therapy.
From Guernica to Granola
From poison gas to wheatgrass
From Babi Yar to Bobby Kennedy
wait, I have it:
From Birkenau to Birkenstocks
from the Principia to the Prius.
Does anyone honestly think this will ever be published? Just how long has he been "working" on it already? I'd love to be there when he delivers a great stack of old envelopes scrawled on with crayons and stained with crushed Cheetos, and then...they don't say "Yes, Jonah, that's good".
From the Bogomils to the Buggles.
From the Donatists to Donahue.
Getting multicultural, from Qin Shihuangdi to Khan Noonian Singh.
From Helen of Troy to Helen Thomas.
The liberal fascist clique at "Unfogged" is speculating about my upcoming book which will finally show the world what they really are, and the stink of fear hangs in the air.
For my part, I thought it was a joke too the first time I saw the new subtitle.
I wonder if he realizes that Hegel isn't a grocery store?
"From Birkenau to Birkenstocks" gets my vote.
Calvin and Hobbes to Calvin and Hobbes is awesome.
9: For the record, I don't think Christian Science actually blames you for getting sick; at least that's not my CS friend's take on it. They just prefer prayer over medicine. (And I'm told you don't go to hell for seeing a doctor, either.)
From Jesus to Hay-soos
From 7th Grade to Now: The Tyranny of Swirlies
From Third Reich to Third Base, Which Has Been Denied Me Thus Far
Hey 11 and others of 11's ilk:
Yes indeedy, Buckley is significantly less loathsome than Goldberg and the rest of the current National Review cast. Better writer too. But lets not overlook that Buckley has always been a self-involved tool and jackass (and on several occasions a flat-out racist).
jobs appropriate for someone who is simultaneously overqualified and unqualified for anything
Yeah, that's a tough one. It's frustrating to realize one's spent years gaining an expensive, wide-ranging education that qualifies one for nothing at all. I don't know if you're still reading, I think I once mentioned that the SO works in development for the Bos/ton Chil/dren's Muse/um, and has worked in development for non-profits in Boston for a long time. If you like, I could send you her email--she might be able to help you with some ideas.
...from Gayatollah abu-Labs to Abu Ghraib.
JL, I'd love it. You've got an e-mail for me. I don't have one for you.
2: BG, I've been meaning to ask this: Is it just bad to work there, or do you think even those of us who just shop there sometimes should stop patronizing them?
47: I just sent you an email with her contact info. She's expecting to hear from you.