Slog - Comments on David Shields on that Dizzying Feeling http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling A sample paragraph: When our difficult heroes (and all real heroes are difficult) self-destruct, watch us retreat and reassure ourselves that it's safer here close to shore, where we live. We distance ourselves from the disaster, but we gawk in glee (the cheers and champagne that spontaneously broke out on the floor of the NYSE when word came of Client Number 9). We want the good in them, the gift in them, not the nastiness, or so we pretend. Publicly, we tsk-tsk, chastising their transgressions. Secretly, we thrill to their violations, their (psychic or physical) violence, because through them... Copyright 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:20:41 -0800 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:37:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by isabelita Oh, bullshit. It's appallingly disappointing when the few people you think might actually be doing some good in this world fuck up, like Spitzer. And he'll end up being penalized far beyond what his actions were worth, unlike Bush and Cheney, who should be publicly flayed, then drawn and quartered for their fuck ups.

]]> isabelita http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002181 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002181 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:38:49 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Good point, isabelita.

That said, seeing the Hague convict Bush and Cheney for their war crimes is going to be fun!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002183 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:40:45 -0800 Comment by Jay So why did the author feel the need to drag Kundera into this piece of shit writing?

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002222 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002222 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:15:05 -0800 Comment by Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Penls You know what Elliot Spitzer has...an enormous penls!!!

]]> Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Penls http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002223 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002223 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:16:11 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty What, no Britney Spears?

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002225 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002225 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:17:23 -0800 Comment by Smarm Yo! I hear ya talkin, C.F.! That's, like, really totally awesome to the max squared!

]]> Smarm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002256 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002256 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:23:54 -0800 Comment by A. Pope duh, um, like mebbe every one's both vicious and virtuous -- good and bad...somewhat...like I mean like few are totally one way or the other... to an extreme...but most are both..... sort of...you know?

]]> A. Pope http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002257 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002257 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:25:44 -0800 Comment by croydonfacelift O fuck, David Shields, have sex with Gary Payton already and don't tell me I enjoyed watching Spitzer go down. I didn't. I still want to puke over it. In short: spare me.

]]> croydonfacelift http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002265 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002265 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:06:55 -0800 Comment by Kim Completely off-topic, but I just found the nifty little feature on the NYT website where you can click on any word in any story and it brings up a dictionary/thesaurus. Sweet. When is SLOG going to implement that? I would love to see the dictionary definitions of some of the words used over here.

]]> Kim http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002274 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:49:14 -0800 Comment by feom that paragraph reminded me of mudededede

]]> feom http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002277 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002277 2008 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:16:16 -0800 Comment by ru shur Mudededede is one of the funner characters in Smash Bros Brawl.

]]> ru shur http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002314 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002314 2008 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:04:49 -0800 Comment by name david shields wants you to take a look at his screenplay

]]> name http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002328 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002328 2008 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:07:59 -0800 Comment by Phoebe This is all true, and kind of depressing.

Completely irrelevant, but very well put:
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/04/ok-now-i-care.html

]]> Phoebe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002375 2008 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:50:59 -0800 Comment by David Using the NYSE reaction to the Spitzer revelations, as an example of our cultural love/hate investment in celebrities or whatever Shields was trying to describe, seems to me a particularly incompetent choice. OF COURSE they cheered! Spitzer had probably prosecuted, or tried to prosecute, most of them or their friends!

]]> David http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002405 2008 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:30:21 -0800 Comment by Phoebe but it wasn't just the NYSE - look at the unbridled glee of the talk show hosts, many of whom had just had him as a guest. So yeah, they didn't even have to use the NYSE, because the joy was universal.

]]> Phoebe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002454 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/david_shields_on_that_dizzying_feeling#c1002454 2008 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:37:53 -0800