althouse.blogspot.com - 11/24/2008
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Reputed title of a Weekly Standard piece by P. J. O’Rourke, according to this NYT articl e called "Irony Is Dead. Again. Yeah, Right." What's the connection between the death of irony and Barack Obama? Joan Didion made the connection, saying people these days were into "naïveté, translated into ...
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WELL, THEY’RE ALREADY NAMING STUFF AFTER HIM, SO FAIR’S FAIR I GUESS: “Is It Too Soon to Start Talk…
Instapundit —
... STUFF AFTER HIM, SO FAIR’S FAIR I GUESS: “Is It Too Soon to Start Talking About the Failed Obama Presidency Just Because He Isn’t President Yet?” ...
The day the irony died
Classical Values —
... Who'd want to live in a world like that? Uh, not me. But do I have any choice? Can I just say "Gag me with a spoon"? The Times goes on to point out that "no self-respecting ironist actually uses the word "ironic," except, perhaps, ironically." What about self-dissing ironists? I don't know what the permissible categories are for anything anymore, and I'm just baffled. I wish I had not seen this piece, which I saw not because I read the Times, but only because the fearless Ann Althouse linked it. She also offers some constructive criticism of both the Times and its one-way ...
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