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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Monday, June 03, 2002
Just took advantage of a free moment to finally visit the most celebrated female warblogger, Asparagirl.
It's a parody, right?
Asparagirl goes to see two wonks discuss globalism:
First things first: Brink Lindsey is a dead ringer for Adam West (minus the Batman cowl but plus glasses). I just had to get that out of the way and mention it, because it was really pretty unnerving to listen to him talk about emerging economies and trade barriers and the like while also constantly imagining him saying "to the Batpole, Robin!"...
Michael Hardt seemed very unsure of himself, almost intimidated to be there... Hardt seemed mostly uncomfortable throughout the hour and a half and wasn't as engaged either with Lindsay or with the audience as one might have thought.... Hardt seemed much more to be responding to Lindsey's opinions and viewpoints than giving much differing ones of his own. It was hard to believe that he is a professor...
One needn't be a devotee of pop gender psychology to guess whose argument Asparagirl finds more compelling.
Asparagirl appears to live in New York, and to be one of those citizens (like Peggy Noonan) constantly worried about terror attacks: This very afternoon, I read on the Drudge Report that New York landmarks were mentioned by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as being likely targets; so much for Scott and me paying a visit to Ellis Island later this week.
Please, friends, tell the world: many of us who live in the Big Town (as I have for many years, though some analysts affect not to notice this, even when it is plainly mentioned in the texts they are dissecting) have chosen not to be cowed by terrorists foreign or domestic.