Reason Writers Around the Web: Radley Balko vs. Matthew Yglesias on Bloggingheads.tv.

Reason senior editor Radley Balko and ThinkProgress blogger Matthew Yglesias talk media, health care, and criminal justice for Bloggingheads.tv. Watch here.

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[Xeones]

It's not much of a battle of wits when you're fighting an unarmed man, Radley. But fuck fairness, yo. Get 'im.

[SugarFree]

The winner of the Charles Stross Look-a-Like Contest vs. THX 1138!

May the best giant head win!

[John-David]

Xeones pretty much beat me to it. I'll never understand why Yglesias name is mentioned so much here. Julio and Enrique are more intellectual than he is.

[John]

Is it just me or does Yglesias increasingly look like Andrew Sullivan?

[John]

"Xeones pretty much beat me to it. I'll never understand why Yglesias name is mentioned so much here. Julio and Enrique are more intellectual than he is."

So are Tony and Juanita.

[KingShamus]

Hell, Enrique's girlfriend Anna Kournikova is smarter than Matt Yglesias.

And she's got a cuter, less awkward rack than Matty's man-tits.

[T]

Damn, Radley needs some hair. Or to back up from the camera, one of the two. Hell, maybe both.

[John]

"Damn, Radley needs some hair. Or to back up from the camera, one of the two. Hell, maybe both"

I think he just needs to wear a white jumpsuit and film these things in a white room with a stainless steel desk. If he is going to go for the que ball look, he might as well go all the way and go for the sci fi que ball look.

[SugarFree]

Enrique's girlfriend Anna Kournikova is smarter than Matt Yglesias.

Yes, but can she incoherently debate Radley with Ezra Klein up her ass? Kournikova FAIL.

[EJM]

I think he just needs to wear a white jumpsuit and film these things in a white room with a stainless steel desk. If he is going to go for the [cue] ball look, he might as well go all the way and go for the sci fi [cue] ball look.

Maybe he should appropriate the look of Circo's lead singer (top right in the photo here; second from right in the photo here).

[joshua corning]

So the big problem in lowering costs through fairer price competitions is the left wants get rid of tax subsidies on employer paid care and the right wants to extend the subsidies to individual care...

or put another way the left wants to tax employer care and the right wants to cut taxes on individual care....

Jesus just split the fucking difference.

[ev]

To go with the whole photo thing...Radley Balko is looking increasingly like Phil Selway, the drummer from radiohead.

to wit: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2005/2383935658_9e253ab224.jpg?v=1207173802

and http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/rock/gl/images/thumb/1/1f/Phil_Selway.jpg/120px-Phil_Selway.jpg

I have no idea how to html; I apologize for the ugliness of the links.

If Radley were Phil...or if Phil is secretly Radley...I'd be super impressed.

[hmm]

Was that Wal-Mart bait at the end there?

At the risk of being a jackass, ya like there's any risk of that. It seems like Radley says something some agrees with copious amounts of "things" that are basically what was just said. It was like having a hyper active parrot to debate.

Per the end I can see a doc anytime at an emergency care center here w/ or w/o insurance. Actually it's easier w/o insurance and out of pocket depending on what insurance you have.

[hmm]

some = someone*

[hmm]

I think he just needs to wear a white jumpsuit and film these things in a white room with a stainless steel desk. If he is going to go for the que ball look, he might as well go all the way and go for the sci fi que ball look.

I was thinking a white cat and a gray leisuresuit. Maybe a mini me sitting next to him. Maybe some freakin' lasers.