Comments for UP@NIGHT http://upnight.com Mitchell Aboulafia Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on THe Wall Street Leopard by WhatisSoAlluringAboutthomassaboExpensiveje http://upnight.com/2012/09/21/the-wall-street-leopard/#comment-1871 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:07:40 +0000 http://upnight.com/?p=5484#comment-1871 I’ll immediately seize your rss feed as I can’t to find your email subscription hyperlink or e-newsletter service. Do you have any? Kindly allow me recognise so that I could subscribe. Thanks.

]]> Comment on A Parallel Universe Election by Mitchell Aboulafia http://upnight.com/2012/10/20/a-parallel-universe-election/#comment-1839 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:15:15 +0000 http://upnight.com/?p=5615#comment-1839 Jeff,

I appreciate the advice. But this is not meant to be a non-partisan account of two parallel worlds. The intent was to raise questions about the kind of world Mitt Romney promises, and specifically to challenge the notion that his business background will lead us to the promised land. The parallel universe notion is a hook to get people to start thinking about the kind of world we will live in with Romney. This is less urgent with Obama since we have a pretty good idea of his policies and programs. With Romney we are getting much more of, ‘trust me, I’m a businessman. I will fill the details in later.’

I have added a short paragraph near the end to address some of your concerns.

Not sure all of my HS teachers would have a problem with this. This is a certain genre.

]]> Comment on A Parallel Universe Election by Jeff http://upnight.com/2012/10/20/a-parallel-universe-election/#comment-1838 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:39:48 +0000 http://upnight.com/?p=5615#comment-1838 Mitchell, great premise in your opening paragraph. But in the rest of the article, too bad the window between universes turned out to be a one-way mirror. Your high school writing teacher would be baffled that you abandoned your own excellent premise.

Secondly, even on the half of the story you told, you were looking through the window with a biased lens. The way you’re reporting on this magic portal between universes, one side is purely bad and presumably the other (untold) side is purely good. Your high school government teacher would tell you the real world isn’t so binary, dude.

Someday, give serious real-world analysis a try.

]]> Comment on Romney’s Biggest Debate Lie by Robin http://upnight.com/2012/10/05/romneys-biggest-debate-lie/#comment-1822 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:34:48 +0000 http://upnight.com/?p=5573#comment-1822 Good insights. I think you’re right on target here.

]]> Comment on Romney’s Biggest Debate Lie by Mashed Potato Bulletin http://upnight.com/2012/10/05/romneys-biggest-debate-lie/#comment-1819 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:34:53 +0000 http://upnight.com/?p=5573#comment-1819 “he had a strategy to cover his lies by claiming that his opponent is a liar.”

Did you notice too that he brought out the ol’ “If you tell a lie enough times it becomes true” comment when Obama kept hammering him on the $5 trillion tax cut? And then Romney went on with that very tactic as he brought back “death panels” and “Obamacare was a government takeover of health care”.

It’s always amazing to me how often Republicans get away with this strategy and how Democrats keep letting them.

]]> Comment on Romney’s Biggest Debate Lie by the warrioress http://upnight.com/2012/10/05/romneys-biggest-debate-lie/#comment-1818 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:39:30 +0000 http://upnight.com/?p=5573#comment-1818 Very wise posting you’ve made here..

]]> Comment on Klingons and the Pentagon by evanberrett http://upnight.com/2012/09/09/klingons-and-the-pentagon/#comment-1771 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:08:04 +0000 http://upnight.com/?p=5420#comment-1771 Just from the title of the paper “Did Jesus Die for Klingons, Too?” I actually think that has a lot to do with space flight. This may be unfounded since I haven’t read the paper, but here’s a thought. If say we have space flight that takes us far beyond our current bounds of space. Consider now if we actually meet other intelligent beings. Would that shake the faiths? For me, a Christian, no. My faith has much room for other species. Question is, if they don’t know Christ, would it be our place to preach our religion to them. I would say it could be okay, but others might say no. So maybe that’s why so many kinds of people were invited to this conference; there are just so many issues and variables at hand in such exploration.

]]> Comment on Colbert on Capitalism Run Amok: Club “Ayn Rand” by Josiah Winslow http://upnight.com/2012/08/19/the-word-rand-illusion-march-11th-colbertnationcom/#comment-1751 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:21:59 +0000 http://msa4.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-word-rand-illusion-march-11th-colbertnationcom/#comment-1751 Thought you were this guy: http://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/profile_abolafia.shtml

Didn’t realize you were a philosophy prof with a similar name.

Sorry.

]]> Comment on Colbert on Capitalism Run Amok: Club “Ayn Rand” by Josiah Winslow http://upnight.com/2012/08/19/the-word-rand-illusion-march-11th-colbertnationcom/#comment-1738 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:55:24 +0000 http://msa4.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-word-rand-illusion-march-11th-colbertnationcom/#comment-1738 The point of the FT article is that the gothic individualism of Rand is a juvenile taste and was likely superseded in Ryan’s interests by von Hayek. Krugman, being Krugman, won’t consider any possibility except that Ryan worships at the alter of Rand. The inspection of Ryan’s conscience as an economic thinker appears to be one of those things about which reasonable persons may disagree.

]]> Comment on Colbert on Capitalism Run Amok: Club “Ayn Rand” by Mitchell Aboulafia http://upnight.com/2012/08/19/the-word-rand-illusion-march-11th-colbertnationcom/#comment-1735 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:38:29 +0000 http://msa4.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-word-rand-illusion-march-11th-colbertnationcom/#comment-1735 See Galt, Gold, and God by Krugman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/opinion/krugman-galt-gold-and-god.html?_r=1

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