Re: Absolute Pineapple

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Jonah's book was always already forthcoming.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 8:59 PM
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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.)


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:01 PM
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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?


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:03 PM
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Uh huh. I've been there, which is how I ended up in law school.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:04 PM
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The funny part is that as Ezra Klein notes the CEO of Whole Foods is a libertarian.


Posted by: CJB | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:07 PM
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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.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:13 PM
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It's a good thing FL is armed with the middle knowlege of Goldberg's face-raping cock.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:15 PM
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Whole Foods: Ein Bike! Ein Yolk! Ein Procurer!


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:37 PM
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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.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:39 PM
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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.


Posted by: marcus | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:46 PM
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"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.


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 9:57 PM
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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.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 10:16 PM
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3: That's the basic idea.


Posted by: soubzriquet | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 10:22 PM
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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)


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 10:52 PM
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From Berkeley to Buttsecks.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 10:54 PM
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berube won this with hume to the human league.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:19 PM
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I hate everything about Yglesias' taste: from Aristophanes to the Arcade Fire


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:22 PM
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From Chautauqua to Chappaquiddick.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:22 PM
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From Berkeley to Berkeley.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:24 PM
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Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation From Hugo Grotius to Hugo Boss.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:25 PM
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or...Thomas Hobbes to Calvin and Hobbes.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:31 PM
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The monster-fighting temptation from Beowulf to Airwolf.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:39 PM
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Why not just Calvin and Hobbes to Calvin and Hobbes?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:41 PM
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hmm, scans weirder.

John Calvin to Calvin Klein. Damn, Jonah, I owe you for this.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:44 PM
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From Harrington to Harrington.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:46 PM
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from Ben Dover to Ben w-lfs-n.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:49 PM
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From Locke to Spock.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06-27-07 11:50 PM
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From Franco to Frank Rich.
From Birkenau to Berkeley.
From Kristallnacht to Crystal Therapy.


Posted by: Katherine | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 12:11 AM
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From Guernica to Granola
From poison gas to wheatgrass
From Babi Yar to Bobby Kennedy

wait, I have it:
From Birkenau to Birkenstocks


Posted by: Katherine | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 12:34 AM
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from the Principia to the Prius.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 12:34 AM
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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".


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 3:47 AM
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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.


Posted by: Bruce Baugh | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 3:58 AM
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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.


Posted by: Jonah Goldberg | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 4:45 AM
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Heh at 33.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 4:48 AM
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For my part, I thought it was a joke too the first time I saw the new subtitle.


Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 4:53 AM
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I wonder if he realizes that Hegel isn't a grocery store?


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 6:19 AM
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"From Birkenau to Birkenstocks" gets my vote.


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 6:32 AM
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Calvin and Hobbes to Calvin and Hobbes is awesome.


Posted by: Lurker | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 6:40 AM
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Posted by: Lurker

Braaaiiiins.....


Posted by: Zombie LB | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 6:42 AM
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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.)


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 6:44 AM
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From Jesus to Jeebus


Posted by: Ugh | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 6:54 AM
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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


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 7:45 AM
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From soup to nuts.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 7:52 AM
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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).


Posted by: ed | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 8:19 AM
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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.


Posted by: JL | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 8:37 AM
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...from Gayatollah abu-Labs to Abu Ghraib.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 9:12 AM
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JL, I'd love it. You've got an e-mail for me. I don't have one for you.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 9:17 AM
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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?


Posted by: Nathan Williams | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 9:34 AM
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47: I just sent you an email with her contact info. She's expecting to hear from you.


Posted by: JL | Link to this comment | 06-28-07 9:37 AM
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