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Weekly: Of Roaches And Mini-Crises
Everybody can't be me, and in a lot of respects that's a blessing for humanity.
Ask anyone who knew
An exhaustive list of herd animals that hunt:
1) All of them.
You don’t have to kill an animal to “hunt.” You can hunt for greener pastures. The best part is Taibi calling out bad metaphors in a way which works only if the word choice is taken literally rather than… wait for it… Metaphorically.
Yeah, but trust me: That review is considered a classic work of abrasive satire. And rightly so.
Humans are herd animals.
I for one would truly enjoy an article chock full of mixed metaphors. The worse the better.
My dad ran a little savings and loan, which was organized as a mutual, and not as an equity corporation with stockholders (so for the mutual benefit of depositors and home borrowers only). Growing up in that household, I learned a thing or two about lending money from listening to my parents talk about the S&L (I am not exaggerating, my dad was an updated version of “George Bailey”).
Based on my second hand knowledge of lending money – I have only one conclusion: these bankers were absolutely asleep at the wheel, in other words, “morons”.
Your brand of journalism is aging quite well. Improving all the time, which not only justifies, but allows for more and more “irreverent, acerbic wit” (dare I use the term gonzo?). Bring it on!
I’d love to see the heat map for “roaches” for the last week or two. Everyone seems to be on them.
“If everyone could write — and if more people possessed an irreverent, acerbic wit — no one would have any reason to gravitate to people like Matt and I. And God knows a lot of what I write goes out initially with typos.” Sneaky, Heisenberg, sneaky. And yes, you know that I was ungrammatical.