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olitics snark words wednesday march 7 2012 some thoughts on writing here s sarah vaughan with the basie band doing a great old song just friends funny sometimes how one thing will play into another after rehearsal last night we were talking about the horrible job the publisher did with the parts for a terrific tommy newsome arrangement of just friends written for don severenson and the tonight show orchestra it s nothing like the rendition by sarah vaughan with the basie band above which i included because i like it and i can t find newsome s on youtube however you can listen to a sample here the trombone parts are 6 pages long and every page turn but 1 is impossible playing the trombone requires two hands at all times ditto the bass and the bass player showed me how his part had impossible turns leading into the most important bass passages this type of scoring is lazy thoughtless and disrespectful of the musicians who have to deal with it the thought the bass player left me with after some conversation is that when you write something you should make it impossible for your reader to misunderstand or misinterpret this applies to prose as well as music i try to write clearly but i ve never thought about it in quite this way the idea applies not only to the mechanics of writing but also to organizing and presenting your thoughts and maintaining focus in your presentation which reminds me of this criticism i wrote of tim worstall s forbes piece there was a lot of commentary at the cross post at ab and worstill had a lot to say there including i am getting really rather mystified at all the people who seem to be so deliberately missing the point i was making and finally to repeat i am critiquing the use of the insurance model to provide such desired health care not determining how such desired health care should be provided nor even venturing into the question of whether such health care is desirable or not you can read it all over at ab maybe i was too impetuous and should have read the article i was critiquing more carefully now that i know his point i can t go back re read and figure out if i would have gleaned more with more care but worstall did not make it impossible for me to misunderstand or misinterpret even before rehearsal i wrote a comment back to him containing what i think is some pretty good advice so we learn that contra the title and the extended quote from sandra fluke near the beginning your article really has nothing to do with either her or limbaugh and is only marginally related to contraception the real topic if i understand it correctly now isn t even the subtleties of insurance vs assurance but rather idealized health care funding so yeah i will now freely admit that i missed your point totally but it was not deliberate as you asserted in your first comment if you want to have your readers get your point then instead of glibly riffing on a current hot topic i ll suggest that you actually write about whatever it is you are writing about and not require your readers to either do a click through to discover the actual topic in a different article or have a close familiarity with your publication history when you put something out in the public sphere you lose control of what readers are going to make of it and you can t expect them to know your implied context so you need to help them along if you have a specific agenda an article that is intended to make some point really needs to not only stand alone but also explicitly make its central point without a lot of distracting digressions i ll also suggest that you use links to show source data to corroborate assertions or provide further reading for whoever might be interested in digging a little deeper not to illustrate the implied point of the current article i had to read your comments here to discover what i think you might have been talking about there and my next thought was that your point was the difference between insurance and assurance though i guess that isn t it either that is not communicating effectively when you find yourself mystified by the problem of people misunderstanding what you say then i ll further suggest that blaming your readers will not move you very far toward a solution is that harsh i can t decide i don t know if worstall read these words but i m going to take them to heart i ve noticed that people will sometimes ignore the main content of my post and go down a side track due to a flip comment or marginally relevant value judgment i made so there is a lesson here for me as well i hope i m wise enough to take my own advice posted by jazzbumpa at 12 05 am 2 comments labels criticism music non meshing gears self referential claptrap words friday february 17 2012 what the hell friday vocabulary sometimes i get confused by similar sounding words like defalcation and well never mind so to help avoid that kind of problem here is clarification on today s pair of near homophones not to be confused with frex rick santorum predator n an animal that eats other animals predater n someone who knew so to speak your significant other before you did posted by jazzbumpa at 11 07 pm no comments labels humor words wth friday wednesday february 15 2012 a song of ice and miss muffit posted by jazzbumpa at 9 46 am no comments labels humor words tuesday january 17 2012 huntsman endorses romney john huntsman is throwing in the towel after consistently polling in the low single digits eschewing an obvious joke here now he endorses mitt the ripper propitious flip flop you be the judge posted by jazzbumpa at 11 02 am 2 comments labels confusion conservatism conservative shark jumping current events politics truthiness words tuesday december 20 2011 how important is hayek art reminds us of one of krugman s posts from a couple weeks ago with this pk quote david warsh finally says what someone needed to say friedrich hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics pk goes on to point out that hayek s current relevance is almost purely political rather than economic with the implication that it is a distorted view of hayek that the current crop of right wingers uses to oppose anything that smacks of progressivism warsh in the link above is more blunt or as pk puts it cruel to be clear this bluntness and or cruelty is not leveled at hayek himself but rather at those who would self servingly re animate him as a conservatard caricature warsh but the claims conservatives are making about the role he played as an economist are beginning to smack of ruizismus that is they have jumped a caricature out of the bushes late in the day and claim that their guy ran a great race warsh took a lot of heat in comments which he accepted with almost saintly forbearance from right wingers who misread his post these are not stupid people their misreading comes from ideological blindness an insidious form of self induced willful ignorance my comment at warsh s place from earlier today i m later than late to this post and took the curious route of reading the comments first that made the post itself quite a revelation having no dog in this fight it s pretty easy for me to see that it is far from the hatchet job that several other commenters imagine it to be it s not clear whether the point is to damn hayek with faint praise or to praise him with faint damnation but there is some attempt at balance and it is clear that accusations of ad hominem are rising from fevered imaginations an unbiased reader will note that mention of hayek s divorce was in the context of thereafter he labored under five distinct handicaps which is actually giving him a bit of cover for decades of relative obscurity re the n gram chart linked in comment 24 by paul wolfson it s easy for an objective observer to note that hayek had gone absolutely nowhere for 30 years before his nobel reception tickled a modicum of interest then reagan thatcher supply side ism however irrelevant gave him a boost for about a decade since then even with beck s hucksterism it been flat line at best for well over a decade the decline of keynes and friedman over that same span may well reflect the general dumbing down of practically everything in a sound bite age dominated by professional liars like gingrich limbaugh and murdoch s entire stable and dim wits like paul ryan michelle bachman and rick perry even in his grave poor keynes has been ad hominem ed to death more so that any other currently dead economist well except for marx so are we screwed or what posted by jazzbumpa at 8 26 pm 1 comment labels criticism economics history self referential claptrap words sunday november 6 2011 knight s castle a request by ari at eotaw for books to recommend to his precocious 9 yr old son reminded me of a favorite book from that time in my life my comment i was 9 or 10 when i found knight s castle by edward eager at the locke branch library in toledo absolutely loved the dreamy magic realism it s a fine example of moral fiction that is not preachy the story involves siblings and cousins and does an excellent job of presenting the girls as equal to the boys while recognizing each as a unique individual this book was originally published in 1956 went on a quest to find it again when my son was about 10 fast forward my wife gave me a set of eager s books a few years ago and i read them with my grandsons to their great pleasure that s when i learned that eager was from toledo also as a kid i was enthralled with the middle ages and dinosaurs too but that s a different story was there a book that you were especially fond of as a child posted by jazzbumpa at 12 51 pm no comments labels kids life words tuesday september 27 2011 map of westeros this one is quite good most of the action of a song of ice and fire takes place here posted by jazzbumpa at 6 55 pm no comments labels travel whatever words thursday september 22 2011 quote of the day hige sceal þe heardra heorte þe cenre mod sceal þe mare þe ure mægen lytlað byrhtwold h t to delong posted by jazzbumpa at 6 49 pm no comments labels hope words friday september 9 2011 what the hell friday imus inspired double entendre edition i will simply imbed this with no further comment really what could i add h t to avg joe at the corner posted by jazzbumpa at 2 10 pm 3 comments labels duh humor sex words wth friday friday march 18 2011 what the hell friday pt 2 best headline evah edition seriously truth is so much better than fiction deputy strip search finds crack between buttocks posted by jazzbumpa at 11 32 am 3 comments labels current events humor irony oh well words wth friday tuesday march 15 2011 is there a democrat in the house i m talking about real democrats not blue dogs dinos and corporate shills like b hoover obama you might be able to count them on only a few fingers but by god at least there s one posted by jazzbumpa at 7 49 pm no comments labels civil discourse conservative shark jumping criticism current events hope words saturday march 12 2011 best wisconsin sign check it out here update this one is my new favorite posted by jazzbumpa at 1 10 pm no comments labels current events pictures words thursday february 24 2011 quotes of the day from the party of lincoln while at rude s place i noted this post from which i will quote liberally and in fact progressively you lift quotes from rp at your own risk this is safe though because he was quoting old honest abe 1 i am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to i would to god that such a system prevailed all over the world from a speech on march 5 1860 in hartford connecticut regarding a shoemaker s strike which believe it or not involved 20 000 shoemakers who were not apparently elves 2 inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them but it has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits this is wrong and should not continue to secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor or as nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government from his notes 3 labor is prior to and independent of capital capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration capital has its rights which are as worthy of protection as any other rights nor is it denied that there is and probably always will be a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits from his 1861 state of the union address decrying the effort to place capital on an equal footing with if not above labor in the structure of government about tariff policy scribbled down on december 1 1847 one can state with absolute certainty that were lincoln alive today he would chose a different party posted by jazzbumpa at 11 39 am 4 comments labels conservative shark jumping criticism history politics quotes words saturday january 29 2011 earthquake in hungary and i m neither rushin nor lyin rescue officials say parts of western hungary and budapest the capital city have been affected by a 4 8 magnitude earthquake the strongest in the country since 1985 fortunately no casualties were reported the very short article conlcudes the quake was centered near the town of oroszlany 70 kilometers 44 miles west of budapest the name oroszlany struck me because i ve known people named orosz the name means russian presumably some time in antiquity their ancestors wandered into hungary from russia could be after all as someone once told me about history and uncertain ethnicity in that part of the world the fences were low and the nights were dark since i m not familiar with the town i ran the name through google translator and got the result lion lion really just for kicks i put a space in orosz lany the translator then spit out russian girl nice i suppose but a rather odd name for a town my lovely wife who gets an h t btw is a polish girl or to my surprise lengyel lány for lengyel is also a family name i recognize so next i tried translating lion from english into hungarian and got oroszlán close and a bit coincidentally lewisian but no szivar could it be lioness perhaps nope that s nőstény oroszlán and not at all helpful at that point i lost focus and just started playing with the translator confirming that i did indeed know how to count to ten though my pronunciation is laughable and now it s time to say jó éjszakát to which the childhood retort was well you aint so hot either posted by jazzbumpa at 11 29 pm 3 comments labels humor words friday january 28 2011 what the hell friday vocabulary expropriation edition loyal readers will recognize the expression great stagnation which i coined all on my own and have been using for quite some time to describe what economists routinely call the great moderation i don t 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