Dude obviously can't afford capital letters.
Shoulda worked harder in school.
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On the original article, it struck me as weird that he concluded the article by saying how much more fun it was to shop there and cook at home, when nearly everything he praised in the article was prepackaged yuppie food.
I thought most libertarians refused to shop at Whole Foods on the principled basis that eww eww dirty dirty liberal food, neener neener.
"Shopping is not a null-sum game."
max
['Creative destruction in the vegetable aisle.']
"You know the only reason you are poor is that you are lazy. Except, you're not even really poor, because you're fat. And you know why you are fat? Because you are lazy. Which would normally make you poor, but in this case it hasn't, because you are fat. In any case, the important thing is that you are lazy and I don't like you. Oh, yes, and the other important thing is that I am really rich so I don't need to spend my money carefully. In fact, I'm so rich I don't even need to work. I just eat fancy food all day."
I really hate it when poor people are fat. My ancestors were enormous lard-asses as a sign of class distinction and exclusivity and I get incensed when I think of them having to annex every last marker of good breeding, even the unhealthy ones. What next, bedding their own cousins to keep the line pure? Sheesh.
5: It's very ironic, and yet Jane Galt herself told me that the Whole Foods dude was a bad libertarian because Whole Foods has expensive organic produce and stuff, and an upright corporation which Does Good in the Eyes of the Market would buy the cheap poison stuff and sell it to their customers for maximum profit.
maybe if those who whine about the cost . . . spent more time getting an education, they wouldn't have to worry about the cost
It is kind of true. I don't shop at Whole Foods, but when I think back on all the time I have spent complaining about expensive grocery stores, and add up the minutes . . . and think about all the advanced degrees I could have earned during those minutes, I am filled with shame.
because Whole Foods has expensive organic produce and stuff
WTF? Filling a market niche makes one a bad libertarian?
Are Lexus dealers bad libertarians too?
Lexus dealers are excellent libertarians, but hybrid car makers are terrible libertarians. Also, managing a nuclear power plant that is dependent on government subsidies and decades of gov't backed research makes you a good libertarian. Managing a small company that installs solar panels on homes makes you a bad libertarian.
I'm pretty sure that no actual Megan McArdles were injured in the production of the opinion attributed thereto in 9. SJ was kidding.
"small company" s/b "small company that makes a profit."
I am certain some libertarian somewhere has espoused exactly the view I am mocking. Unfortunately that does not prevent it from being a straw man attack.
FWIW, Virginia Postrel thinks WF fits just fine in her libertarian framework: the profusion of choice, consumption as self-expression, the magic of the market ameliorating social ills, etc.
Fucking fat poor people. They're a drain on the economy.
Speaking of libertarians, check out this guy, and in particular the club that he has organized for his fellow libertarians, and in particular what the one guy says about national parks.
Why do people entrust large sums of money to be managed by people who name their daughters "Rand" and "Galt"? Why are these guys able to destroy entire economies on a whim?
I think Whole Foods gets a libertarian pass because it's so insanely expensive.
I generally think it shows style to have a non-sequiitar in the last line of a paragraph. It demonstrates planning and forethought. Tyler Cowen got into a Libertarian Ethics bloodmatch with most of his readers this morning.
22 didn't work. In fact, it may be impossible to intentionally add a non-sequiter (alt sp) to a paragraph as an example of intentionally adding...never mind. I did come up with a joke about growing up in a household of five young women with synchronized periods, but that belongs in another thread.
If the paragraph only has three sentences anyway, it's hard to have one of them be a non sequitur, if you consider the issues of sample size and statistical significance. It would be easy in an 8- or 9-sentence paragraph.
I don't think that's the case. Even a short paragraph should be reasonably topically coherent. Look, a fish!
In further off topic news, very bad things are happening at work. I'd like to apologize preemptively to anyone I insult or berate over the next week -- I'll be on edge.
27 gets it exactly right. Hang in there.
Oh, I'll live through it. But this next week won't be fun. You know, it's really fucking hard to 'take ownership' of a case when you're not on the goddam distribution list for emails with co-counsel.
From here on out, LB, all assume that anything critical or irritated you say to me is the result of work. Also, I'm changing my handle to "stf," and have a few things to say about the unassailable gender work being done in evolutionary biology.
"all" s/b "I'll"? Oh no. Just letting you know how its going to be from now on. You're approval is it's own reward.
I will read "stf" as "shut the fuck **."
Felder's SFGate page is truly sad ... a chihuahua yapping in the night, hopeful that another dog will yap back.
This Felder character was recently sighted in Pennsylvania.
I worry about that guy's stress levels.
Yeah, people who leave comment on Internet news sources are pathetic.
I always end up pissed off when I go to Whole Foods, and I'm an environmental student.
I just discovered that the herbal tea that costs $4.99 at Whole Foods costs $3.20 at the dinky local health food store down the street. I'm never going back to WF again.
I just discovered that the bulk granola at Whole Foods is not any more expensive than the bulk granola at the local co-op/organic food store. I don't know what to think.
A dear and close friend to me who worked at Whole Foods once told me that they weren't anti union, they were "post union" and that was the vision of the big libertarian dude. I didn't have the heart to tell her that this was the vision of the union busting consultant. She needed the gig.
they weren't anti union, they were "post union"
Also, we're not "anti benefits," we're "post benefits." Now work, coolie.
I'd have a much easier time believing the "post-union" line if they were based in, say, Massachusetts instead of Texas.
I'm pretty sure that no actual Megan McArdles were injured in the production of the opinion attributed thereto in 9. SJ was kidding.
I actually wasn't kidding at all. It came up in a Bloggingheads episode, possibly the cookoff one.
Also, I'm changing my handle to "stf,"
sif, dude. And don't forget the brackets, neither; they're magic and they get you better lap dances grinding.
max
['It's STFU, BTW.']
