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Greatest economist?

Adam Smith	1 vote - 14 %
Thomas Robert Malthus	1 vote - 14 %
David Ricardo	2 votes - 28 %
John Stuart Mill	0 votes - 0 %
Karl Marx	1 vote - 14 %
Alfred Marshall	1 vote - 14 %
Joseph Schumpeter	1 vote - 14 %
John Maynard Keynes	0 votes - 0 %
Milton Friedman	0 votes - 0 %
Oscar Lange	0 votes - 0 %
Enrico Barone	0 votes - 0 %

7 Total Votes

Too true, fruit-face | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

Abused child becomes fucked up adult by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #1 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 01:58:04 PM EST

film at 11.

heh. I figured it was a hoax by sasquatchan (4.00 / 1) #10 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:34:53 PM EST

maybe not .. Those wacky brits and their 1-Apr jokes..

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: Earlier by Vulch (2.00 / 0) #15 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 03:47:31 PM EST

The Telegraph was carrying the story on Monday.

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Realistic? by Christopher Robin was Murdered (4.00 / 1) #2 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:01:15 PM EST

That's funny. I always thought that True Grit was a sort of dead pan Americanized Rabelaisian comedy. Less realistic than over the top.

Unrealistic? by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:10:15 PM EST

Did you spot any anachronisms or mistakes?

Also, compare it other classic Westerns like "Riders of the Purple Sage": there's a vastly more realistic tone to "True Grit".
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." -- Bertrand Russell
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No. Good point. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (4.00 / 1) #9 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:34:09 PM EST

I can't think of any.

I guess I was contrasting realistic, which is often taken to mean relentlessly grim, with the humor that comes from pairing Matty and Rooster and scenes like them wasting a third of their supplies in target practice.

I guess I also put it in the tradition of his other novels, all of which are quirky dead-pan comedies with dark tones. In The Believer they had an article that described Portis as "like Cormac McCarthy, but funny."

The book's often compared to Huck Finn which has a similar funny/dead serious tone (until the very end when it falls all to heck).

But you're completely correct: True Grit is pretty thick with period correct detail. So I reckon realistic is a perfectly legit term for it.

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I loved that shooting-the-cornbread scene by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #11 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:40:10 PM EST

It did seem completely in character though ,to just get into a pointless competition with each other when they're supposed to be catching up with the bad guys.
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." -- Bertrand Russell
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: Character logic. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (4.00 / 1) #14 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 03:30:39 PM EST

I think Portis has to be pretty rigorous with the logic of his characters for two reasons. First, because so much f the comedy comes from the contrast between characters, it would feel like cheating if he regularly had them brake character. Second, another source of humor and pathos comes from Mattie's narration and the distance between what she describes and what we imagine the situation to be. If he started doing illogical things with his characters, Mattie's narration would go from humorously skewed to seemingly unreliable.
It is a hard trick to pull off. It's what makes Portis an unfairly neglected master of the American comedic novel.

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Trans... by ana (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:12:00 PM EST

also means across.

"And this ... is a piece of Synergy." --Kellnerin

Which would also mean by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #5 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:14:36 PM EST

Gone across from being a man.
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." -- Bertrand Russell
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In which case, by ana (4.00 / 1) #6 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:15:29 PM EST

translation is getting carried away.

"And this ... is a piece of Synergy." --Kellnerin
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: Indeed by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #7 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:21:09 PM EST

translate: c.1300, "to remove from one place to another," also "to turn from one language to another," from L. translatus "carried over,"
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." -- Bertrand Russell
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Economists comments: by Herring (4.00 / 1) #8 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:30:29 PM EST

Timothy Taylor Landlord - nice pint.

"value as the interaction of supply and demand" - almost Pirsigian.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey

That next course by blixco (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:52:51 PM EST

looks extremely interesting.

One of the earliest things I ever read on the subject of inherited behavior was a book on genetic "memory," that is the biologic imprints on how we behave.

I recently spoke to a psychology prof who told me that evolutionary and behavioral sciences belong in behavioral sciences, and biology belongs in biology; that only a psychology or sociology student can truly learn causes of behavior.

He's not necessarily the smartest guy I know, but he is opinionated.
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin

True Grit/Rooster Cogburn by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #13 Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 03:02:00 PM EST

A pair of great John Wayne movies. Especially the latter, which pairs him with Katharine Hepburn.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

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