And I thought I looked queeny when I didn't shave.
This actually seems like a picture of someone writerly.
Yglesias is just doing this to ruin my awesome theory.
That is a nice picture, although it's so book-jackety that it seems a little bogus.
I'm glad he's back at one blog; I found his TPM Cafe blog less interesting, and I suspect that it was because he was trying to keep it sober and professional sounding rather than just writing whatever the hell.
Yes, his chi was dissipating in the three-blog format.
It does have the issue that the comments aren't consolidated.
I was hoping that you'd link to that awesome picture of Yglesias in a keffiyah.
Also, this post of his today was very good.
I'm a little worried about the change. If it's good for him professionally, that's obviously the only thing that matters. But I can see the humorless prigs who read his TPM blog (includes me) infesting the comments to his less serious posts at the new place. That would be a shame.
Also, no one has asked the important question: Is it good for America?
10: So it was. Really, very good. I'm kind of in denial about the impending war with Iran -- they can't seriously be planning to attack Iran, can they? What with?
Maybe it's serious, but I can't really believe it.
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I agree, that post is good. It is a good picture too.
10: So it was. Really, very good. I'm kind of in denial about the impending war with Iran -- they can't seriously be planning to attack Iran, can they? What with?
I think the idea is that once the "flat daddies" are introduced, they will be expanded from military households into every household, and then the non-flat daddies will be abducted and forced into military service. If the wife notices, great, we'll send him back in a couple years. If not, even better, he can defend her freedom by attacking Iran instead of whatever cowardly thing he was going to do instead.
I guess the alternate plan would be to get a bunch of poor children and convince them that they will get into a heaven full of candy and toys if they serve as cannon fodder. That worked for Iran in the Iran-Iraq war.
10 -- yep, it's a good'un as LB and "" have affirmed. I, like LB, can't believe this is happening.
This gotta suck pretty bad for Marshall. Probably a bigger deal for him than MY.
Well, apart from the book thing being a big deal for MY. VEry well deserved.
What book deal? (Sweet. And well-deserved.)
Read the linked bio.
Seriously, *very* well deserved.
Currently, he is on leave working on his as-yet untitled book about the Democratic Party's search for a post-9/11 foreign policy that will be published by John Wiley & Sons sometime after he finishes writing it.
Sweet indeed. I think we should devote the thread to obnoxious yet compelling title suggestions.
Howzabout not killing people and breaking stuff? Does that work for you?
Well, my first thought was how his advance compared with the huge advance given to Peter Beinart. And than I knew what the title of Yglesias' book should be --- The Bad Fight.
21: That's an odd first thought.
Title: How Not To Win Friends By Killing People
23: It was my second thought. And I like "And a Pony."
22: Ooo! I don't have the first half of the title, but the part after the colon should be "[Whatever]: Designing a Foreign Policy for a World Without Ponies".
A Supposedly Justified Invasion We Should Never Do Again
Well, assuming we think advances are based on sales projections rather than moral or aesthetic merit, I repeat that it's an odd first thought.
Fuck the War Hippies, and The Pony They Rode In On
We need thoughtful books about policy that are directed at curious young people, not another book that nobody reads except boring wonks whose opinions are already set in stone. I recommend "LOL WTF D00D: A Careful Consideration of the Bush Doctine"
The bit before the colon should of course be Unshitting the Bed.
27: I was lying. It really wasn't my first thought -- probably my fifth or sixth.
"LOL WTF D00D: A Careful Consideration of the Bush Doctine"
Awesome.
Or even "A Serious Consideration of the Bush Doctrine"? (But yes, awesome.)
I prefer "A Sober Consideration".
Yeah for our boy Matt! Well deserved.
I suspect, however, that his book will be dealt with unfairly. The grown ups who rule the world cannot stand intelligent smart people unless they are being: (a) earnest or (b) self-effacing. (I don't mean that Matt's writing isn't self-effacing; rather, that he is not going to write a book about how people his age suck.)
I remember an encounter Matt had with George Packer about the Iraq war in which Packer, in essence, said: "I won't have something your age telling me I'm wrong."
You just know his next book is going to be "Fuck The Trees: The Miracle of Slash and Burn" or something.
My congratulations to Matt, whom I've been reading since he was a cherub.
Yes, congrats.
I liked Timothy Burke's formulation of a liberal hawk or neoconservative mask over a more brutal face, and I would do some variation on that, were I coming up with titles for a book about Iraq.
That was only a year and a half ago, standpipe. Quite right that this blog return to its official mission as the Saiselgy Appreciation Club of America. If only he could spell correctly.
Which I'm apparently not doing. Coming up with titles for a book on Iraq.
Burke kind of illustrates why I like 'serious'.
Since the book isn't actually about Iraq, Strength without Stupidity?
Since the book isn't actually about Iraq, Strength without Stupidity?
double posting--now is that a very serious way to comport oneself?
Plan B: Just In Case The Rapture Doesn't Take Care Of Everything For Us
My Name is Luka: The Democratic Party and Foreign Policy
One of the working titles is much cleverer than anything suggested here. You are all pwned.
That was the assumption. After all, this is the Saisegly fan club -- we have high expectations.
Mugged by Reality: The Failure of Neoconservative Foreign Policy
I don't think there can be pwnage unless we hear this "working" title.
48: I find it impossible to believe that it is better than "LOL WTF D00D: A Careful Consideration of the Bush Doctine."
52: I actually think it would be better if "Doctrine" was spelled right.
The Bad Fight: Why Weak-Kneed Appeasement -- And Only Weak-Kneed Appeasement -- Can Win The War on Terror.
Sadly, the publishing people didn't go for it.
The Democratic Party and Foreign Policy: What's the Deak?
Ooh I thought of another one!
"Grotesque And Incomprehensible: Why We Neither Want Nor Need You On That Wall"
(the cover photo being Bush in the flight suit)
Red Rove-r, Red Rove-r, Bring the Troops Back Over
That was only a year and a half ago, standpipe.
Dear God.
53: That's the inimitable Saisegly touch.
How To Fix The Mess We're Leaving In ____
The blank can be filled in at the last minute, at point of retail.
alas appease Iran Iraq a cut-and-run foreign policy in the wake of the bush administration
47 works, as long the publisher can be convinced that the overlap between foreign policy wonks and Suzanne Vega fans is far greater than commonly assumed.
So Pre-emptive it ain't Pre-emptive: The Bush Doctrine
War by Other Means: The Role of Politics, Diplomacy, and Policing in the Fight Against Terrorism
68 -- I think that would only really work with the Unfogged-reading portion of the market.
The Mineshaft Gap: Deterrence and Delusion in the Post-Cold War World
That's right! We can't have a mineshaft gap!!! Do you know how many Iranian blogs are being started every day?