WTF is nonce?

Oh, and Megan? You LIE!

First, there’s McMalkin with “high dudgeon” and now it’s McArdle with “nonce.” It’s almost — almost — as if they’re looking to paper over the fact that they’ve got nothin’ of substance with little nuggets of pretentious hoch-English. Shit, we can all subscribe to “phrase of the day” from wordwankers.com. This is the literary equivalent of hanging truck nuts on your big city SUV: adding offensive and useless embellishments to an already repugnant and pointless product.

“WTF is nonce?”

nonce:
[Brit] (informal) a paedophile

John Holbo over at Crooked Timber tried to engage Megan. It’s pretty hard to try to have an intellectual discussion with someone who’s job description demands they NOT understand what you’re talking about.

Chicken Tetrazzini!

” … the tsunami of tstupid … “
-tbogg

I am sssoooooo stealing that.

Mc2×4 is just your common libertarian: someone too fucking stupid to read a history book and too much of a goddamn sociopath to give a shit about her fellow human beings. And all while being convinced that everyone is as motivated by greed as she is.

It’s not an ideology so much as a mental disorder …

Um, I gotta say, as an American using an unlocked (US) phone while abroad, I enjoy the secondary/black market for used electronics. It’s much better than buying a phone here.

The Libertarians deny she is one of them. Jane Galt erm… Megan is something much worse, a Randian. She is a singularity of stupid.

Thanks for the love.
The truly tragic thing is she’s pretty much an official Villager now, and will never go away, no matter how badly she fails. If she has any actual talent, it’s as an ass-kiss. Hell, she was even overly polite to me the one time we exchanged emails. You never know who might be in position to help you get that better job one day….

I don’t have a problem with “nonce” per se – Wolcott and others can pull it off – but with McMegan, it reeks of her usual delusional self-image of being studied. And yes, the Holbo posts are good. The woman is dim, dishonest, and nasty.

She is NOT, repeat NOT, allowed to use nonce, because she’s used “chap” more than once, than which a more pretentious usage for an American there cannot ain’t be.

But this is mere badinage. To understand fully how deformed McArdle’s mind is, I urge anyone who hasn’t actually read Atlas Shrugged to read it. YES, THE WHOLE THING. Then ask yourself: Who, with a responsible brain, a decent functioning sense of human nature, and an education adequate enough to know good writing from bad, can possibly take that book seriously? Let alone announce, via her pseudonym, her admiration of it?

But that’s our Megs! Cue theme song.

Nonce? It’s a perfectly cromulent word. But, the lady is an ignoramus, methinks.

I find it just makes me miss America’s Worst Mother even more.

Pretentious AND incoherent, now isn’t that precious. I love how her glibertarianism always slips when it benefits her.

If they would pump out some puppies, we wouldn’t have to miss America’s Worst Mother.

She could name them after the foundations of her Libertarian philosophy…Aynrand, Miltfriedman and Trustfund.

Well, I’ve got a Kindle and if I leave it lying around unsupervised someone could take it and re-register it as theirs, apparently. I’m not really too terribly worried about that, however, because when I was about 3 or 4 my mother managed to teach me how to take care of my toys… Megan McCurdle is a putz. And one of the main reasons (Ross Don’t Douthat being the other) why I no longer subscribe to The Atlantic.

WTF is nonce?

A kiddie-fiddler. It makes nonce-sense.

If they would pump out some puppies, we wouldn’t have to miss America’s Worst Mother.

As I said elseblog, one would fear that they’d throttle themselves while learning to tie their shoelaces.

“Nonce” has several meanings, depending on context. The one I’m most familiar with is “for the nonce”–an archaic expression that means “for the time being.”

Other definitions I’ve read about include a placeholder word, a slang term for sex offenders, and technical jargon related to computer programming.

“…and seize any stolen phones that are activated on their network.”
Libertarian McAddled seems to be advocating the establishment of the Cell Phone Police.

Andy, I’ll do anything, I’ll play the Carpenters, just hide me, these phone cops play hardball! -Dr. Johnny Fever

I refuse to read anything MM2 writes (MM1, is of course, the shouty, bulgy eyes Michelle Malkin). There is no point. I do have to say, though, that nonce is a perfectly fine word–it’s a shame she got a hold of it.

MM3 then would be the Rubinesque wingnut welfare twit queen.

“Queen La Frito?”

The Twit Queen.

Oh good lord. I forgot she was an MM, too. Sheesh. I guess that would make Michael Moore MM4.

How could you forget LaTwit? She is Gooper royalty after all and we commoners must hang on and drool over her every twit.

chick seems to be well educated. and still manages to be fucking stupid.

Ditto W.

Simply proof of what one of my colleagues always maintains. You can lead a horse to water and you can drown the son of a bitch, but you cannot make him drink. You can admit a student to a high quality school and push them all the way through, but it does not mean that they actually learned anything.

Hey marion. were you looking for raven to deal with a troll the other day? I was lurking but couldn’t comment. i’m always up for that.

LOL. I wasn’t even going to post that comment because I was thinking “Big deal. Happens alot. Look at Bush.”

Is this lady ever on TV? what station?

I had all kinds of classmates like that at Wellesley. Legacies, grade-grubbers, suck-ups, etc., most of whom were more successful than me. The 3 attributes I listed are much more important for success than understanding things, caring, and/or being intellectually curious.

Never heard of her before tonight. I never go sluming.

As Dubya and many others aptly illustrate, the essential key to success in modern America is to be smart enough to have parents who are wealthy and/or well connected. Jonah Goldberg would otherwise be selling pencils on a street corner and Billy Kristol would be robbing graves.

And we have the income distribution stats to definitely support that conclusion.

Billy Kristol would be robbing graves.

Instead, Kristoad is creating graves by the thousands.

Saez and Piketty have been documenting it for years now.

I fairness, he would also likely have been rolling winos and setting them on fire.

Who are Saez & Piketty?

Economists who work on income inequality and distribution of wealth. Here is Emmanuel Saez’s webpage with a list of publications.

Thanks for the link. I’ll check into it tomorrow. Heading off to nighty nite. Be good everyone.

Nonuce is “Asymmetrical Information.”

<3 "tsunami of tstupid" lol

We all remember Paul Begala schooling Meghan on Bill Maher’s show.

Her response to Paul was priceless, “You must know everything; I’m just the blond in the room.”

Poor Meghan was so full of herself that she did not notice the other blond in the room; Bills guest BBC reporter Kathy Kay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katty_Kay

If Megan is the future of the GOP, then we all need to encourage her success.

Folks, she is very bright, well educated, and schizophrenic. Her language evidences what psychologists call “cognitive slippage.” There is a subject, verb, adjectives, etc. (as well as made-up)but these do not fall together in a coherent manner. That is why so much of what she writes doesn’t make sense; its because it doesn’t make sense. And, perhaps recently, as schizophrenics are want to do, she has gone off her medication, which exacerbates the cognitive slippage. I am quite serious, as a mental health professional with 35 years experience, that is what I think accounts for the nonsense she writes.

chick seems to be well educated.

Folks, she is very bright, well educated,

Is that like Karl Rove being ’smart’? My degree is in mathematics, but even I’ve read Proust, Colette, Emerson, etc, as well as the fluffier bits of classic writing, say Wooster vs Mrs. Dalloway. Megan, otoh, supposedly has a degree in English, yet I have never detected the slightest trace of that pedigree in her writing. She’s about as literate(and literary) as a concrete cinder block.

McArdle writes to obfuscate so her writing is over wordy and her reasoning is circular. She is unprofessional, so it’s full of mistakes, repetition, and irrelevancies. She is not nearly as smart as she thinks she is–I’ve seen multiple instances where she either carelessly misunderstood something she read or was simply not smart enough to understand what she read. And she’s the dishonest servant of dishonest masters, so her writing is chock full of bad facts, bad reasoning, and bad argument. Last but not least, she is snide and arrogant, so her work is full of insults, condescension and sneering.

She’s the singularity of fail, as the kids say.

One more thing–McArdle is a fake libertarian conservative, engaged to a tea-bagger, quoting Micky Kaus, Radly Balko, and Byron York, supporting the far right and “free market capitalism.” How could anyone doubt that she’s an idiot??

It’s bad enough when, in a misguided attempt to sound sophisticated, well-traveled, or clever (or something?), people who are only marginally competent at writing in their own dialect hijack the slang of another country. But it’s that much worse when they misuse it to the point of turning a straightforward sentence into gibberish. Case in point, the use of nonce. I think Ms. M was going for what she thought was a British version of “perp” and failed, thus the sentence takes on a peculiar and nonsensical (sorry!) affect.

(As I Brit myself, I’m compelled to point out a bit of irony herein: while Ms. M–and certain others–are undoubtedly attempting to project an educated and upmarket tone, an awful lot of the terms they “borrow” are either Cockney or what my grandmother would have generally termed dreadfully common, i.e. trashy.)