News flash: the power's out on the third rail of politics? :-)
I haven’t read much of Dean - I cannot understand most of what she writes, and the little I understood (the archipelagos of the blogistan(*) stuff) seemed poorly reasoned. So I don’t want to go hating on her too much, but still, your response to her is some wicked shit and a fun read.
When you talk about the left and their marbles… the supposed value that this part of the left adds to the struggle is supposed to be their brains right? These are the intellectuals, the people who can tie it all together and establish the foundations, describe the true Platonic nature of things that no empirical activity can grope its way to? But it seems even as they threaten to take them home, they have in reality lost their marbles?
—ravi
(*) “blogistan” is my term, “archipelago” is Dean’s.