18 Comments

1. January 10th, 2011 / 6:43 am Eli Artichoke—

   No.

2. January 10th, 2011 / 6:43 am Eli Artichoke—

   No.

3. January 10th, 2011 / 7:33 am reynard—

   thanks for yr help!

4. January 10th, 2011 / 8:21 am Eli Artichoke—

   I’d love to know what Noam Chomsky has to say about this shooting. Seriously.

5. January 10th, 2011 / 8:32 am deadgod—

   [fine writer dismayed by celebrity to point of disablement] not = [random-number generator]

6. January 10th, 2011 / 8:43 am Owen K.—

   Wow . . . I wonder if we can’t make Kenji Siratori a judge as well… ?

   I hope so… .

7. January 10th, 2011 / 2:32 pm reynard—

   it’s a new century

8. January 10th, 2011 / 4:28 pm Charles Dodd White—

   It’s only a matter of time before someone writes a rhetorical analysis dissertation on this guy.

9. January 10th, 2011 / 5:17 pm deadgod—

   maybe so

   teatard century

10. January 10th, 2011 / 5:38 pm c2k—

    :Will-Get: Bookdeal

11. January 10th, 2011 / 9:50 pm Hank—

    Why?

12. January 11th, 2011 / 12:21 am Eli Artichoke—

    Because Noam Chomsky has written books about universal grammar, about politics, and about the media.

    Because the crazy dude that just killed a bunch of innocent people at a political rally was obsessed with grammar, and the media’s coverage of the shooting is partly focused on determining if he was a left wingnut or a right wingnut, how to spin it, who to blame.

    Because that whole terrible tragic shooting in Arizona seems like a bizarre Noam Chomsky nightmare that actually just happened.

13. January 11th, 2011 / 1:34 am reynard—

    i too would like to know what 1970s noam chomsky would have thought of this, the one with the really cool glasses who debated foucault, or 1960s noam chomsky or even 50s, maybe even chomsky as a child, unfortunately 2010s noam chomsky would probably shrug and say something about things being really complicated, whatever i would listen

14. January 11th, 2011 / 1:35 am reynard—

    clearly yes

15. January 11th, 2011 / 2:26 am deadgod—

    well, it’s always been a violent place with lots of charmlessly crazy theorists, reynard

    am whining that the bozo hat is fitted to jerome david’s skull, and not, say, travis bickle’s

    oh, wait

16. January 11th, 2011 / 2:53 am deadgod—

    chomsky’s nightmares are marionette plays

    the strings are tugged by conscious puppeteers

    it’s all connected in a graspable orchestration, and if you don’t think so, you’re (still) one of the puppets

    nothing so fancifully nuanced as a combination of conspiracy, accident, and convention-narcosis

    unless chomsky’s more subtle than I’ve seen

    is loughner america’s first lone gunman?

17. January 11th, 2011 / 5:44 am Hank—

    Oh I guess since Chomsky is both a Leftist and a linguist it makes more sense now.

    I would be disappointed if Chomsky had anything more to say about it than “Crazy dude shot a congresswoman and then the media spins it.”

18. January 12th, 2011 / 7:47 am reynard—

    “The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him.”