Comments on: Maybe We Should Have Paid More Attention to the $400 Haircut http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 28 May 2012 03:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: charles Keating http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54728 charles Keating Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54728 <p>PJhil, your earlier article did not suggest Edwards was your poster boy. What comments are you talking about? All you did is say Edwards made the biggest point about our systems's economic inequality process, and that his family context should not be dispositive of his good political concerns.</p> <p>On a clearly biased, personal note, I can't stand watching Edwards talk, something about his mealy mouth--and that $400 hair...I always wondered how much time he spent everyday combing it... </p> PJhil, your earlier article did not suggest Edwards was your poster boy. What comments are you talking about? All you did is say Edwards made the biggest point about our systems's economic inequality process, and that his family context should not be dispositive of his good political concerns.

On a clearly biased, personal note, I can't stand watching Edwards talk, something about his mealy mouth–and that $400 hair…I always wondered how much time he spent everyday combing it…

]]> By: KXB http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54729 KXB Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54729 <p>How can you be against Netflix? </p> How can you be against Netflix?

]]> By: charles Keating http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54730 charles Keating Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54730 <p>Here's a (standard, banal shrink) theory on why Edwards (Clinton, Spitzer too) did it (low self-esteem): http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1218104258373&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</p> <p>Personally, I think they all did it because they don't believe in anything, ultimately, so why not take advantage of immediate political-social power they've earned? </p> <p>Their number is legion, and always has been.</p> Here's a (standard, banal shrink) theory on why Edwards (Clinton, Spitzer too) did it (low self-esteem): link to jpost.com
cid=1218104258373&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Personally, I think they all did it because they don't believe in anything, ultimately, so why not take advantage of immediate political-social power they've earned?

Their number is legion, and always has been.

]]> By: LeaNder http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54731 LeaNder Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54731 <p><i>I can't stand watching Edwards talk"</i></p> <p>Didn't he turn into an Iraq war critic (execution? critic) the moment he decided to run for president(2008)? If so, how opportunist are his other suggestions?</p> <p>Concerning the boy meet girl scenario: They seem to deserve each other. cheap.</p> <p><br /> </p> I can't stand watching Edwards talk"

Didn't he turn into an Iraq war critic (execution? critic) the moment he decided to run for president(2008)? If so, how opportunist are his other suggestions?

Concerning the boy meet girl scenario: They seem to deserve each other. cheap.

]]> By: Richard Witty http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54732 Richard Witty Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54732 <p>John Edwards was by far the most compelling candidate this season for message.</p> <p>I wish that he hadn't run, and instead encouraged and supported others raising similar questions and issues.</p> <p>It is dishonest to know that you are the wrong messenger, and out of some ego for being the only possible one, continue on anyway.</p> <p>On Netflix. There are many bad things about Netflix. One is that they are owned by a libertarian, an opponent of regulation, an opponent of taxation, an opponent of successful public institutions, and a contributor to rightwing thinktanks.</p> <p>The model is ingenious (I "invented" it and applied it to spoken word audio tapes in 1994). It can be used for anything that is librariable: bicycles, tools, media, canoes, cars, RV's.</p> <p>They are ambitious prospective abusers of the new commons, bandwidth, with their intention to dominate on demand copyrighted video services via the web.</p> <p>The internet will crawl in five years, and netflix will consume a bunch of that.</p> John Edwards was by far the most compelling candidate this season for message.

I wish that he hadn't run, and instead encouraged and supported others raising similar questions and issues.

It is dishonest to know that you are the wrong messenger, and out of some ego for being the only possible one, continue on anyway.

On Netflix. There are many bad things about Netflix. One is that they are owned by a libertarian, an opponent of regulation, an opponent of taxation, an opponent of successful public institutions, and a contributor to rightwing thinktanks.

The model is ingenious (I "invented" it and applied it to spoken word audio tapes in 1994). It can be used for anything that is librariable: bicycles, tools, media, canoes, cars, RV's.

They are ambitious prospective abusers of the new commons, bandwidth, with their intention to dominate on demand copyrighted video services via the web.

The internet will crawl in five years, and netflix will consume a bunch of that.

]]> By: LeaNder http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54733 LeaNder Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54733 <p>boy meet<b>s</b> girl.</p> <p>The ladies ultimate weapon: pregnancy. No scenario for us romantics. much too cheap and boring...</p> boy meets girl.

The ladies ultimate weapon: pregnancy. No scenario for us romantics. much too cheap and boring…

]]> By: Leila Abu-Saba http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54734 Leila Abu-Saba Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54734 <p>I found myself impressed with Edwards' message this time around, and let myself be swayed by my father's early support of him. Dad knew Edwards from North Carolina days. But I didn't really like how he looked, and I find him hard to listen to. Then again, I find most politicians hard to listen to. I supported Edwards until he dropped out, then switched to Obama.</p> <p>Last week I was in the "give Edwards a break, don't be so Puritanical" camp. I've got cancer. I can imagine being tolerant of a husband straying after 30 years of marriage and four children.</p> <p>But on more reflection the whole picture does puzzle me. Elizabeth must have her own enormous ambitions if she pushed him so hard to run despite her illness. The timeline looks like she had found out about the affair already, before her recurrence. Lord, what a perfect storm of tragedy. </p> <p>My recurrence was discovered almost exactly a year after my father's sudden rapid death from cancer, which had played out as Israeli bombs fell on his home town, his worst nightmare. I was in emotional despair after his death, really gave up hope for peace and serenity in this world. I do blame the recurrence on the emotional storms of July-September '06. We shall never know how Elizabeth's personal life might have affected her own health. </p> <p>Many mainstream doctors hate to draw lines between such emotional storms and onset of cancer. I find the storyline convincing however, and I wonder about Elizabeth's internal demons and torments. Again, we shall never know; this is all speculation.</p> <p>I think the accusation of shallow, egotistical and vain is probably just in John Edward's case. However this storm may burn off the crud of his ego and deepen him as a human being. I hope he faces the fire and lets it consume him... because peace and joy await him on the other side of the turmoil.</p> <p>I'm glad he's not in line to be our next President.</p> I found myself impressed with Edwards' message this time around, and let myself be swayed by my father's early support of him. Dad knew Edwards from North Carolina days. But I didn't really like how he looked, and I find him hard to listen to. Then again, I find most politicians hard to listen to. I supported Edwards until he dropped out, then switched to Obama.

Last week I was in the "give Edwards a break, don't be so Puritanical" camp. I've got cancer. I can imagine being tolerant of a husband straying after 30 years of marriage and four children.

But on more reflection the whole picture does puzzle me. Elizabeth must have her own enormous ambitions if she pushed him so hard to run despite her illness. The timeline looks like she had found out about the affair already, before her recurrence. Lord, what a perfect storm of tragedy.

My recurrence was discovered almost exactly a year after my father's sudden rapid death from cancer, which had played out as Israeli bombs fell on his home town, his worst nightmare. I was in emotional despair after his death, really gave up hope for peace and serenity in this world. I do blame the recurrence on the emotional storms of July-September '06. We shall never know how Elizabeth's personal life might have affected her own health.

Many mainstream doctors hate to draw lines between such emotional storms and onset of cancer. I find the storyline convincing however, and I wonder about Elizabeth's internal demons and torments. Again, we shall never know; this is all speculation.

I think the accusation of shallow, egotistical and vain is probably just in John Edward's case. However this storm may burn off the crud of his ego and deepen him as a human being. I hope he faces the fire and lets it consume him… because peace and joy await him on the other side of the turmoil.

I'm glad he's not in line to be our next President.

]]> By: Leila Abu-Saba http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54735 Leila Abu-Saba Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54735 <p>PS, I loved and respected my father who had many, many wonderful qualities. However, he was perfectly lousy at picking candidates. Nobody he ever supported in his forty years of Democratic party activism ever became so much as the nominee, much less President. If my father liked a guy, he was doomed. Early this year my Lebanese-American cousin was trying to get my opinion of the Democratic candidates, and I just said - don't ask me, I am totally out of touch with what the average American voter wants. Remember Dad? Remember all the guys he liked for President? John Glenn???</p> <p>I love you Dad and I know you're laughing with me in heaven...</p> PS, I loved and respected my father who had many, many wonderful qualities. However, he was perfectly lousy at picking candidates. Nobody he ever supported in his forty years of Democratic party activism ever became so much as the nominee, much less President. If my father liked a guy, he was doomed. Early this year my Lebanese-American cousin was trying to get my opinion of the Democratic candidates, and I just said – don't ask me, I am totally out of touch with what the average American voter wants. Remember Dad? Remember all the guys he liked for President? John Glenn???

I love you Dad and I know you're laughing with me in heaven…

]]> By: Duscany http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54736 Duscany Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54736 <p>"On Netflix. There are many bad things about Netflix. One is that they are owned by a libertarian, an opponent of regulation, an opponent of taxation, an opponent of successful public institutions, and a contributor to rightwing thinktanks."</p> <p>Well, you named four admirable things about Netflix. I agree with you on the last one though--"contributor to rightwing thinktanks," but not, I suspect, for the same reasons. You no doubt don't like rightwing anything. I don't like them because they support neocon fanatics who want to bomb Iran.</p> "On Netflix. There are many bad things about Netflix. One is that they are owned by a libertarian, an opponent of regulation, an opponent of taxation, an opponent of successful public institutions, and a contributor to rightwing thinktanks."

Well, you named four admirable things about Netflix. I agree with you on the last one though–"contributor to rightwing thinktanks," but not, I suspect, for the same reasons. You no doubt don't like rightwing anything. I don't like them because they support neocon fanatics who want to bomb Iran.

]]> By: charles Keating http://mondoweiss.net/2008/08/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html/comment-page-1#comment-54737 charles Keating Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/08/11/maybe-we-should-have-paid-more-attention-to-the-400-haircut.html#comment-54737 <p>Yeah, Liela, what do you say to someone who asks you, " What about AIPAC? Do you think that's a good umbrella org, with the best wishes for all of us? I'm just an ordinary goy American with many familly members who have served in the US Army & Mariens..." </p> Yeah, Liela, what do you say to someone who asks you, " What about AIPAC? Do you think that's a good umbrella org, with the best wishes for all of us? I'm just an ordinary goy American with many familly members who have served in the US Army & Mariens…"

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