Two bits of snark

Two amusing pieces of snark. The first, via CT, is an amusing take on libertarianism from Julian Sanchez:

Rachel: The dinghy WITH NO MAKER. Because I demand one and will pay, it shall appear.
Rachel: Or does that just take effect once I’m a’stead?

Julian: Time and causality have no meaning in a frictionless market
Julian: As God constantly creates Himself outside of spacetime
Julian: So supply creates its own demand
Julian: Your desire for a dinghy is merely the tesseract shadow cast by the four-dimensional dinghy itself

The second, via Bookslut, are some delightfully unflattering comments about Charlotte Roche's Wetlands:

My first imperative with this post was to insure that no one could ever corner me, in person or online or elsewhere, and accuse me of having prodded them, in any way, toward reading Wetlands.

Thankfully, I think Ayelet’s post ("It’s just bullshit for bullshit’s sake") and Jessa’s ("a total failure as a novel") have gone a long way toward providing the proper disincentives. Even Sam’s weirdly feeble praise (i.e., alternating between moments "when I was 100 percent sure this was the worst thing I’d ever read" and moments when "I came somewhat close to maybe slightly respecting" it) should be a sufficient dose of "abandon hope all ye who enter here."