Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

This chaos was totally avoidable.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

I really should read my own blog.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

When we show up, we win.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

The revolution will be supervised.

“woke” is the new caravan.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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  1. 1.

    Anne Laurie

    I’m looking foward to this, DougJ! You might want to further irk Cole set up a category specific to ‘Corey Robin’s Reactionary Mind’, so that people who wanted to read all the bookchat threads would have an easier search…

  3. 3.

    Calouste

    Objection you honor:

    Mind and Sarah Palin in the same sentence assumes facts not in evidence.

  6. 6.

    dance around in your bones

    I love the book club here, especially when the author is involved…just bought it for my kindle through the Amazon link on this site.

    I was looking at the actual book (you know, made out of paper and all) and thinking I could buy a used copy…can anyone explain why the new book is $29.95 and a used copy is $36.29 to $40.80? Are they signed by gawd or something? It’s a mystery to me.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    @Brian S: California has never charged sales tax on catalog purchases, but they seem to think that if you put your catalog on the internet instead of mailing out dead trees they should get a cut.

    I also have no problem with one vendor looking at what another vendor is charging for a product.

  12. 12.

    Stillwater

    That’s a really good book, the first half especially. Corey lays out the liberal/conservative dynamic as clearly as I’ve ever seen it presented (which isn’t sayin a hell of a lot, really). Even the second half, which was a little more disjointed from my pov critiques conservatism in a pretty fresh way.

    Doug, did you keep hearing Cleek’s Law in your head as you read that first half: C(today) = not-L(today), updated daily?

  14. 14.

    Jenny

    speaking of which, Huntsman flip-flopped today and says he no longer believes in climate change.

    how pitiful.

  15. 15.

    handsmile

    @DougJ:

    Thanks for the heads-up! Do you have any sense when the discussions might begin? Wouldn’t mind myself if that could occur after the onslaught of the holidays, but perhaps launching it between semesters would be helpful to a number of readers/commenters here.

    FYI: For the past month or so, Robin has been writing a guest column for al-Jazeera. Here’s a link to a recent one, “I’ve got a crush on you”, about Antonin Scalia and Jack Bauer (no kidding): aljazeera.co.uk/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111115153044735801.html

  16. 16.

    Linda Featheringill

    For readers that are watching their pennies:

    You can download a Kindle for the PC from Amazon for free and purchase the Kindle edition of this book for only 10.00. Instantly delivered. No shipping, no waiting.

  17. 17.

    Countme In

    I look forward to Robin’s next book: The Mind of the Gourmand:
    From Forme of Cury to Jeffrey Dahmer.

  22. 22.

    jake the snake

    I have a copy on my Nook. If anyone else has one, I can loan it. I have not lent a book yet, but we can figure it out.

  24. 24.

    Steeeplejack

    @jake the snake:

    You can lend a Nook book only once–ever–to one other person, for 14 days. You can lend multiple books to one person, but each book can only be lent one time. That is, once a book has been lent once, it cannot be lent again to anyone.

    This is supposedly a limitation required by the participating publishers.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    @jake the snake:

    (Blimey! Misspelled me own name on my brother’s computer.)

    You can lend a Nook book only once—ever—to one other person, for 14 days. You can lend multiple books to one person, but each book can only be lent one time. That is, once a book has been lent once, it cannot be lent again to anyone.

    This is supposedly a limitation required by the participating publishers.

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