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Welcome back. How was the trip?

Man, that sounds like an uneven match, unless there's something to your opponent beyond "Burning Man Participant". One hopes there is, but why wouldn't they say so if there was?

I agree with Sigvald, it hardly seems fair. Jane Galt vs a Burning Man participant is almost like the New England Patriots vs the East Podunk Middle School Wanderers; please don't hurt her.

My fellow readers beat me to the "Burning Man" punch. Maybe she also stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night?

Ha! "Burning Man Participant". You should webcast the carnage.

Give a synopsis or something when this is over - it sounds interesting. And yeah, I hope that your opponent is at least a *bit* of a challenge - you don't want people to start feeling sympathy for her ;)

Is there a New Yorker that is willing to comment on this situation? I'm surprised that big box retailers and the like have been able to invade the NYC area.

Burning Man participant

reminiscent of the debate between scott mcconnell and a drunk skateboarder named throatie

http://www.amconmag.com/08_11_03/feature.html

"Welcome back. How was the trip?"

Heh. Missed the asterisk on that last post, huh? :-)

Hi all,

I just found out about the debate. Sounds like fun. If you want to know more about what is wrong with allowing suburban big box stores free entry into New York City, bookmark my blog, http://www.BigCitiesBigBoxes.com.

MCG

Does anyone else fear for Megan's safety? Seriously, sure she'll have logic, reason, a superior understanding of the principles of economics, but still -- isn't she traveling into the Belly (or at least the Pancreas) of the Beast? Couldn't they have held it in quasi-neutral territory (say, Murray Hill)? Then again, Megan has a lot of fans. Are libertarians are rowdy group? Can they handle themselves in a melee? Seriously, though, this debate will probably be a draw, as each side will be concerned with entirely different issues. Burning Woman will be focused on aesthetics, "human" costs to community, parking, effect on small businesses, and Megan (I presume - likely at my own peril) will focus on benefit to customers, market efficiency, etc. Still, it would be great if Megan, with her wonderful, inimitable mixture of intellect and empathy, could convert some of attendees who came to see Burning Woman?

MB

Where I live the Wal-Marts are huge, get lost in, leave pop-corn trail, huge. I don't see how Wal-Mart can afford to build in NYC especially Manhatten and keep their "low,Low Prices". Is the problem that the New Yorkers are shopping outside city limits and depriving NYC of sales tax dollars? Oh well, its called voting with your feet and is a time honored response when government digs too deeply into a citizens pockets. Is it because they are non-union? I suspect that most retail employers in NYC are non-union (but that is just a guess don't quote me on that).
Anyway, let us know how it turned out.

nyc is a semi communist metropolis, with insanely heavily unionisation everywhere. plus ludicrous rules that help the mob dominate so many industries, including construction and garbage.

so low costs, wide varieties, no unions, and a lackopf cachet spell massive opposition. you get the commies from the unions and the community activists, while also getting elite disdain from people in manhattan, and a general lack of emotion on the part of most likely customers who can already get to som sort of suburb in ny, conn, or nj if they need to.

nyc needs a strong mayor (who isn't a closet dem) who will bulldoze all of this bs. ah for the days of robert moses!

According to this, Becky Ellis is a "marxist feminist and a member of the Resistance Collective"; according to this she's "the mama of a 17 month old wild child and a radical activist in her spare time. She puts out Red Diaper Baby, a zine about the integration of parenting and radical activism".

Yeah, with a resume like that, I guess I'd tout the fact that I attended a big neo-hippy performance art festival in the Nevada desert as my prime qualification in an economic debate, too.

Although, playing up her up-and-coming young British track star creds might have been another way to go. (ok, not very likely the same Becky Ellis! ;))

Looks like that the moderator may be more on her side, from the libertarian POV. The website makes for interesting reading, especially the "About" system.

Sounds interesting, but it's like arguing Winter - good or bad? It's coming and there's not much you can do about it.

All I can say looking in at NYC from SoCal is that if a Subway replaced Hello Deli, Letterman would lose 75% of his schtick.

Becky was nice enough but Megan very politely made lunch out of her with numbers, facts and logic. Becky basically argued that she didn't move to NYC from Indiana to have it turn into the suburbs she escaped. I tried to ask her what she thought about people who are native New Yorkers who don't want to pay higher prices to live up to some transplant's idea of authenticity but the moderator never picked me. You rocked, Megan, good job.

Well, damn, everybody else beat me to snarking the "Burning Man Participant" title.

Wish I had seen this earlier. Would have asked you to pass a big hello to my old friend Todd.

And yes, Todd would definitely be favoring Megan's case over Becky's. When I was fresh out of NYU, Todd, Chris Whitten and I used to go to International Socialist Organization meetings just to stir them up into a nice froth.

Nathan, you could just say hello to me yourself, but you keep changing your e-address. Contact me by clicking my name here if you want to correct this tragic oversight (and, once again, thanks for debating last night, Megan).

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