Usually informed posts by a certified philosophy/history/politics nerd.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Jon Stewart = Glenn Beck?
Jon Chait smacks down an inane post by fatuous tool Jonah Goldberg. As always, Goldberg tries to draw false equivalencies with the other side instead of dealing with the issues on his own.
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo.
Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.
