Luckily, we’re changing our name in a very few days because Larry Kudlow – one of the best dressed guys I know – generally prefers to be photographed in an elegant pin-striped suit as he is seen here in his Pajamas Media profile. We are tremendously fortunate to have Larry on our editorial board. One of the few players on cable TV to truly blog himself (as opposed to bloviating online like O’Reilly), this is a man who, by himself, could make [insert new name here] a serious source on economic opinion.
So I take it Kudlow is a Jewish convert to Catholicism?
“Nargizian”
is that an Armenian name? I understand that Armenia was one of the first countries to adopt Christianity, back in the day.
Anyway, as to Pajamas Media, you are gathering together an amazing crowd, Roger L Simon. But I have yet to figure how this will produce $$$ for the scribblers.
But, the best of luck…
also, “Kudlow”. That looks like a Slavic surname. Is it? (I know, it’s none of my business. But the whole surname is a fascinating study. eg. Back in 1800, in the Western Highlands, many McOHeinen’s became… Johnstons! and then McTaggarts or McIntaggarts became…Priest (but not Catholic I think). Sorry, you have tripped over one of my weirdnesses.
Kudlow in Pajamas? Never!
Not quite never, but never in public.
One can imagine him in silk pjs and cashmere-lined smoking jacket, though . . .
Larry Kudlow is consistantly wrong about the markets. He’s been touting a bull market for a year. He is so far to the Right that he cannot see the Indexes for the Stocks. I larned a long time ago never to listen to anybody regarding investments who has a political opinion. He missed the oil price rise, insisting for months that it was speculation moving the price; he has been saying there is no inflation in spite of the huge rise in gasoline prices and the stratospheric CRB Index of commodities (meats near historic highs, copper the highest anyone can remember and so on); insists that American workers are not hurt by free trade and so on.
You picked a real winner there, Roger.
Kudlow is an unrepentant supply-sider. ‘Nuf said.
One of the greats died yesterday…
Above all, what that parochial, narrow-minded, comical old woman knew was that community is not distribution of income and social services and the miracles of modern medicine. It is remembering that the engineering nephew is the apple of Miss Olga’s eye, and rejoicing with that dried-up spinster when he passes his examination and gets his degree. It is going out to some remote suburb to visit the whining “Little Paula” whom a long-dead family servant had raised and loved. It is dragging arthritic joints up five flights of stairs to bring cough drops to an old whore who has become a neighbor by soliciting men on the nearby street corner for years.
from “Grandmother and the Twentieth Century”
But worse, nothing is as powerless as a prophet whose time has come. He becomes a priest and vision turns into ritual. Or he becomes a celebrity who appears on the Late-Late show or in the society column. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
from “Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan”
—Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander (1979)
Noel Brailsford, the Dissenter of twentieth-century reality, tried to accommodate conscience to power for the sake of effectiveness. He ceased to matter.
Peter F. Drucker never ceased to matter.
http://www.medaloffreedom.com/PeterDrucker.htm
heather
So what the H is your point exactly?
Was there something about my question that offended you somehow? Please do tell.
I asked a simple question based on an educated guess. And I it was directed to Roger, since I doubt anyone else here would likely know.
Now, are you “trying” to be a wisea** or are simply interested in post modern Armenian history?
Yes, I admit, I was going at you, Mr. Nargizian. I was also showing off. A Long time ago, I learned, at the U of Alaska in fact, that a surname ending with “ian” was probably an Armenian surname.
Also, I listened, underneath your remark about mr Kudlow’s Catholic Christianity, an interest in his background. I am interested, genuinely interested, in surnames and their origins. Kudlow is, on second and third glance, something of an oddity. I would bet on a Slavic base there, but then I have not gone into that in any depth. It has something to do with the “u” in all that verbiage….
There is a book, (not in any way casting aspersion upon your own observation, by the way), by Rodney Stark, on the “Rise of Christianity”, which notes that during the Roman Empire, the Jewish Religion was an Evangelistic Religion, and that the Christian religion was only a part of the Jewish Relgion. In fact, archaeological findings indicate that the earliest Christian churches were placed across the street from the local synagogue.
My point is, that there is a lot of history here, and that the greatest religions in the world are the Jewish Religion, and its offspring, the Christian Religion. I have to say, that it is equally the truth, that Islam is an Arian heresy of Christianity. Both the Jewish and the Christian religions see God as an active God, who loves this world and the people in it. The Arian Heresy (Arius) sees God as much more dignified, something way out there, something well beyond the ‘silly’ concerns of us humans. And his “prophets” are only that, stuck here on earth…. and
hey,
Yes, I thought your bringing up Kudlow’s Jewish ancestry (whether it exists or not) has a rather unhealthy interest in that aspect of our life….
Heather,
You are “cukoo for coco puffs”.
That is some scary stuff right there.