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Thursday Open Thread | 55 comments (55 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

what's been going on in the ideology threads? I never got in, and it's daunting to open 200-300 comment threads with so little time to read stuff...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 04:17:06 PM EST

Re: Can anyone summarize (4.00 / 3)

They are very repetitive

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 04:23:25 PM EST
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Re: Can anyone summarize (4.00 / 4)

Playing semantics with someone who thinks his ideology is self-confined pragmatism and reason...

On the other hand, lots of nice articulations were born out of this, in particular from JakeS -- he should go into politics. (I'm serious.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 04:24:29 PM EST
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Re: Can anyone summarize (none / 1)

Argue about issues first, then get called names for objecting. So much for pragmatism...

And definitely agrees about Jake.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 05:17:38 PM EST
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