The beginning of the Obama administration is good for the world, but probably bad for the progressive blogosphere. Fewer conservatives in positions of power equals fewer wingutty policies to complain about it. Fortunately, here comes Big Hollywood to the rescue with a fine wine from Dirk Benedict who played Starbuck on the old Battlestar Galactica. Benedict's hilariously insupportable thesis is that the old BSG was better than the old BSG and that the specific reason the old BSG was better than the old BSG was the old BSG's tendency toward simplistic storylines and retrograde gender politics
Out with the old, in with the old
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I think this was a play on how the old series was in reality, and how Dirk says it was supposedly viewed.
Internet humor if you will, and not an error.
DirkaDirk, I'm not sure I understand the joke in this case.
For the time being, I'm inclined to believe that his substitution of "old" for "new" was indeed unintentional. Although the fact that he made the substitution twice is definitely evidence in favor of the view that this was intentional word-play, this not the first time Matt has made the same error twice in the same post. For instance, consider this post from November 2008
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/we_did_it_with_the_airline_industry.php
(Note that he used the word "dysfunction" instead of "dysfunctional" twice in the same sentence.)
Thus, for the time being, we're choosing to leave this classified as a mistake. Although we are open to persuasion if other readers would like to chime in on this.
that's fine, as it is your blog.
The example above is obviously a mistake, but one I'd attribute to poor spelling and even poorer editing \ use of a spell checker.
That's just how I read, but I did have to do a double take, then read the second sentence for it to make sense.
Wait. Does this mean old Coke is better than old Coke because old Coke is better than old Coke?