new crush or yes, i realize this is my third post in an hour, shut up and listen because i’m feeling chatty, aight?
i’ve spent the past twenty minutes reading andrew the poor man and snickering at my desk. as an example of why you should also read andrew and snicker at his biting wit on current affairs, i present you with the perfect attack of noam chomsky:
“Also interviewed [by Robert Kaplan] is Noam Chomsky, who shows his usual passionate intellectual commitment to changing the subject, and offering up the blindingly obvious as something only he has the moral courage to understand (wait, we didn’t invade Afghanistan to make life better for foreigners? – do tell!) although he does manage to stop himself short of actually christening the studio “Golgotha North” and nailing himself to the lighting scaffold. Another fine performance by America’s most prominant public intellectual. He also accuses Kaplan of being an “ultra right wing jingoist,” and Kaplan calls him a big baby. Meow.” – from november 23rd
after three years of reading the man’s work, i was always reduced to flapping my hands, madeleine-kahn-like, when asked what i “thought” of chomsky. from now on, i’ll just imagine him nailed to a studio stage and still blathering about consent and laugh, laugh, laugh. thanks, andrew.

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