The Nation Observations
Recently, The Nation sent me one of those free subscription offers. And since I can’t read enough magazines (thank you internet addled attention span!), I of course responded. And I like it! Even though I’m not a huge fan of their economic writing (Naomi Klein…), but more than anything, it’s a good way to know what the Left (very intentional capital L) is thinking. And apparently it’s thinking that putting Jesse Jackson in subscription offers is something that their readers want to see. I don’t want to impugn Jackson himself, but he’s a guy who doesn’t seem to have a lot of credibility with anyone or seem particularly cool. On my subscription offer, on the other hand, they had a plug from Gore Vidal. And Vidal, in case you wanted to know, is totally awesome.
If you like Vidal, you need to see this. Whenever I think that American political discourse has coarsened, I remembered the immortal words, “Listen, you queer, you stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”
Dylan Matthews
June 19, 2008 at 1:48 pm