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If you spend any time in washington you'll find nerds. what happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s british comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. but, like christians in ancient rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

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If You Spend Any Time In Washington

Jonah Goldberg

If you spend any time in washington you'll find nerds. what happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s british comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. but, like christians in ancient rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

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There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, i think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down south, and so on with asian, latino, indian, midgets, etc. the previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. the hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. the soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ which is just not a good insult at all. like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.

If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. if you spend your own money on someone else, you care how much you spend, but you don't care how well it is spent. if you spend someone else's money on yourself, you don't care how much you spend, but you do care how well it is spent. and finally, if you spend someone else's money on someone else, you don't care how much you spend, and you don't care how well it is spent. that is government.

It's about average for us. behavior always draws more than survey. we're the sexy ones,' nate said with a grin. amy snorted. 'oh, yeah, you guys are the mae wests of the nerd world.' we're action nerds,' nate said. 'adventure nerds. nerds of romance.

I live making comics. comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. i do that. i live off comics, and then i write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.

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