Peter Bagge's "Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me"

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It's an athology of Bagge's op-eds/cartoons/journalism for libertarian rag Reason; his art style is still the same, and still on the same level, and there's some pretty fascinating stuff in there just on a purely journalistic level - his train ride, disappointment with Ron Paul, attending a polyamorous conference. I find his narratorial voice almost always likeable and his viewpoints well reasoned and funny, even when I don't agree with them (predictably the "Arts" section is where he pisses me off most often.)

Anyway, a pretty enjoyable read, and not a bad time capsule of the Bush era. Anyone else read it?

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 August 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

is there any new stuff or is it all material available on the reason website?
http://www.reason.com/staff/show/137.html

Philip Nunez, Monday, 17 August 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago)

i like bagge just fine but basically i feel that the closer libertarian groups lean towards financial ruin, the more sensible they'll become w/r/t various stances on things, or at least that's a thing worth trying, and maybe reading his stuff for free online will help make that happen just a little.

Philip Nunez, Monday, 17 August 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

a) I think it's all still on the Reason website
b) Fantagraphics Books isn't a libertarian group.

chronicles of paranoimia (sic), Monday, 17 August 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

awww... well maybe i can still hit them for piddling bandwidth costs.
Is his older stuff collected? (the beach boys and the ms. america stuff)

Philip Nunez, Monday, 17 August 2009 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

don't remember ms america specifically ... but there was beach boys stuff in the back of Hate Annual, which has generally been a catch-all for all his non-Reason reportage over the last ten years.

(except I think they didn't run the Aspen Comedy Festival piece from Details, with the Monty Python reunion)

chronicles of paranoimia (sic), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

^^that's in one of the Hate annuals

go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

The Death of the Age of Stuff

fit and working again, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago)

Odd conclusion he comes to there

Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago)


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