http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:49:40 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/10/04/174538.php#comment-13421 I never paid much attention to Postrel until I came across her piece in WIRED. The gratuitous slap at Pat Buchanan set off my neocon radar, but I read the rest of the article, amazed at the flimsy logic from someone who had "credentials" as contributor to Reason, Wall St. Journal, etc. Postrel has observed that the liberal/conservative dichotomy has outgrown its usefullness, and I can accept that, but in its place she posits her own dichotomy, the "dynamist/stasist" that seems equally unfit at describing anything observable. Her entire thesis is based on one casual observation of Pat Buchanan and Rifkin of Crossfire. Her observations seem to amount to little more than the complete triumph of style over substance. Emoting and freely expressing style is good, working at a traditional job like welder is bad. She seems like the Ann Coulter of economics to me. ]]> 13421@blogcritics.org Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:49:40 EDT