Monday, August 26, 2002

Charles Dodgson has a nice rundown of Enron and the ever expanding fantasies of its defenders.

Dodgson describes my own feelings on Robert Musil perfectly:



To sum up, we have selective quotation, misleading attribution, and outrageous conclusions, all wrapped up in badly written English --- exactly what you'd expect from a Sokalesque test of the credulity of the blogsphere. Which is clearly not what Musil's up to, or he would have declared victory and withdrawn long ago. But his blog has been performing that test since its inception whether he means to or not --- and it's amazing how many people who ought to know better have flunked.




UPDATE: Including Mickey Kaus, as pointed out in my comments by Jason McCullough.