Sunday, January 21, 2007

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I think everyone of the FCP'ers have felt like the fox from time to time (especially within academia).
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5 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Crazy like a fox!

1/21/2007 11:31 AM
Mr roT said...

Nice allegory, mft. I hope that fox doesn't say anything that might hurt anyone's feelings.

1/21/2007 11:47 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

That the fox merely exists is hurting everyone's feelings.

I just got an e-mail from a democratic State Senator of North Dakota, and he seemed a little disturbed about an article I sent him on P.J. O'Rourke (something about, "That was the dumbest thing I ever read.").

The fox synapse fire quick, and his actions are calm, graceful, and swift (sort of like JJ after a gallon of Fullers or Mirror Pond).

1/21/2007 12:34 PM
Mr roT said...

Could you post the link to the PJ O'Rourke and the Sen's letter together here? Then you could send the FCP link to the state senator and we could maybe gangbang him?

1/21/2007 1:30 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

JJ, while I appreciate your offer to bring the statesman from North Dakota into the highly-civilized FCP chat room, I am going to hold off for now.

However, here is the link to the 150-proof journalism O'Rourke article I e-mailed him. And here's his response:

North Dakota Senator: O'Rourke is ignorant of history and sociology. He expected the aftermath of Kuwait to obtain in Iraq and thinks anthropology is the difference? That's one of the dumbest things I ever read.

And MFT's response to the North Dakota Senator: "I don't know if O'Rourke (someone who would willingly admit to being an arm-chair "historian," and everything
else) was using anthropological modeling to predict what would happen in Iraq so much as he was drawing from the weighty Enlightenment (of the 18th-century Scottish variety) economic treatise set down by Mr. Smith. And, of course, to understand O'Rourke means to understand one of
U of Chicago's school of economics (the Friedman/von Hayek variety)."

Any other thoughts on this, fellahs? I'll let you know if I get another response in the next week or so.

1/21/2007 1:45 PM

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