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If you live anywhere near the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, please feel free to wander into his home at any time and watch television, make a few phone calls, or grab a snack. John won’t mind!
UPDATE. In local blogging news, Mark Bahnisch takes the Moral Politics Test and discovers that he’s history’s greatest monster.
- I got Jimmy Carter? That test is rigged!Posted by Quentin George on 2005 02 19 at 10:12 PM • permalink
- To get George Bush, I had to select ‘take care of yourself so society doesn’t have to’ and ‘all people are fundamentally bad’. LOL
As for John Fund, I can’t decide if he’s an idiot or insufferably arrogant. The pictures make it clear that he should have been able to tell he was in the bloggers’ area without being told. What’ll he get up to tomorrow?
- Bill Clinton and liberalism for me.
Questions are completely loaded, of course, but I’d rather be the pantsman than Carter, all though only if I don’t have to put up with Ms Rodham nagging me.
I’m sure I got double points for not being in possession of a religious faith.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 02 19 at 11:38 PM • permalink
- System: Conservatism
Variation: Economic Conservatism
Ideologies: Conservative NeoLiberalism
US Parties: Republican Party
Presidents: Ronald Reagan (95.06%)
2004 Election Candidates: George W. Bush (81.12%), John Kerry (73.39%), Ralph Nader (54.66%)Posted by drscroogemcduck on 2005 02 19 at 11:50 PM • permalink
- Does anytone really give a rat’s arse about Mark Bahnisch’s performance in any capacity whatsover? It’s like caring what Phillip Adams or Robert Manne think!Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 02 20 at 12:11 AM • permalink
- Hmmm.
I’m Ronald Reagan. Which means I’m extremely flattered of course.
As for John Fund…. that is very discourteous. I’m afraid that I would be … most likely … rather prone to mischief … with someone’s email account.
I can see it now …
“Dear Hillary,
Love your gams, meet me when you get back. Me love you long time! You bet!!”
lol.
Posted by memomachine on 2005 02 20 at 01:50 AM • permalink
- The following items best match your score:
System: Conservatism
Variation: Economic Conservatism, Extreme Conservatism
Ideologies: Conservative NeoLiberalism
US Parties: Republican Party
Presidents: George W. Bush (95.06%)
2004 Election Candidates: George W. Bush (95.06%), John Kerry (65.41%), Ralph Nader (47.29%)Extreme conservatism?? surely a contradiction in terms.
- The following items best match your score:
System: Conservatism
Variation: Moderate Conservatism
Ideologies: Capital Republicanism
US Parties: Republican Party
Presidents: Richard Nixon (95.06%)
2004 Election Candidates: George W. Bush (87.12%), John Kerry (74.81%), Ralph Nader (57.50%)Nixon? Oh well. Coulda been Carter or Bubba, I guess.
- Gerry Ford, Evil?
“Do you like football and nachos, well why don’t you come over and watch the game and we’ll have some nachos?”
D’oh.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 02 20 at 03:44 AM • permalink
- I got a 95% with Reagan, Conservative Neoliberalism and Economic Ultra-Conservatism. Apparently, only 1% of the people who took the test are more individualist than me.Posted by Aaron – Freewill on 2005 02 20 at 06:35 AM • permalink
- It’s a perfect example of socialism in action. From each according to his ability, to each according to his greed. So that laptop wasn’t his? Well…. well…. proeprty is theft! I needed it, so I used it!
Another triumph from the bastion of capitalism! The WSJ ain’t been having a good couple of weeks either…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 02 20 at 03:33 PM • permalink
- This Moral Politics Test is a creation by the guys at Xignite who are a leading provider of on-demand financial service components for mission-critical applications.
Judging by their forum nobody else is too excited (apart from Mark B @ troppo).
I was rather enjoying being a paleo-con too.
- I was really hoping to get a Teddy Roosevelt score.
Doh
Posted by papertiger on 2005 02 20 at 05:40 PM • permalink
- An alternative politics test is this one , which is a bit more in depth.Posted by brucey bonus on 2005 02 20 at 07:01 PM • permalink
- I am closest to Ronald Reagan (if I take the “long” test). However, if I take the short test (2 questions) I fall squarely in the Clinton/Kerry camp. Can anyone explain to me how this test could be reliable (at least as to the short test?). I noted that the only way that I could drag my score back to the right side (again, on the short test) was to declare that most people are bad. This is absolutely backwards, if you ask me.
- See comment 27:
An alternative politics test is this one , which is a bit more in depth.I drilled this one too, it’s Brit lefties.
It’s also weak technically. Scales are not linear- GWB is shown only a bit less authoritarian than S Hussein,and we all know W’s propensity for executing colleagues he doesn’t like & pulling kids off the street & raping them.
It doesn’t uniformly distribute, so their examples leave the lower right quadrant blank. This means they either have the wrong metrics or the wrong test set of “world figures”, or both.
Finally, it’s naive, saying in its FAQ 16 that “humanity should be the priority for globalization”. Most human conflicts are all about who gets to define “humanity”. Stalin? Hitler? Brussels? The rapists and crooks in the UN? Who you choose defines how you answer this question!
Bottom line: on a sample of two, political quizzes are put together by lefties and loaded with their sophomoric value judgments. Avoid!
I can understand he made an honest mistake and thought the PCs were public and for anyone’s use. I don’t understand why nobody clued him in by pulling him aside and informing him. Instead, they blog about it.
Whenever I’ve been at conferences where we set up our portables and where it’s safe to leave them as we wonder around .. I always set a screen saver with a password.
Won’t stop a determined hacker, of course, but will stop someone from strolling by and using your PC ‘just for a minute’.