Thaaaat's Numberwang

"Number occupies a strategic position in this conflict, because it is simultaneously the most generalized basis of thought and that which demands most abruptly the question of its being." — Alain Badiou

See also Mitchell & Webb's "Numberwang" sketch.

February 9
“[…] like a number of right-leaning economists, Mr Landsburg has a regrettable tendency toward tone-deaf, context-dropping, contrarian provocation based on an unexamined assumption that this is what it means to be bravely rational”  —Will Wilkinson cuts down Steven Landsburg and, in the process, labels a sort of empty intellectual exercise whose sustained popularity has always escaped me. (apologies to the original poster of this image…found it earlier today saved as “tumblr_l4ksgiiHZB1qz7lxdo1_500” and I have no idea who posted it first. Tumblbeasts: can you work the usernames of original uploaders into photo file names?)
“[…] like a number of right-leaning economists, Mr Landsburg has a regrettable tendency toward tone-deaf, context-dropping, contrarian provocation based on an unexamined assumption that this is what it means to be bravely rational”  —Will Wilkinson cuts down Steven Landsburg and, in the process, labels a sort of empty intellectual exercise whose sustained popularity has always escaped me.

(apologies to the original poster of this image…found it earlier today saved as “tumblr_l4ksgiiHZB1qz7lxdo1_500” and I have no idea who posted it first. Tumblbeasts: can you work the usernames of original uploaders into photo file names?)