Today's Bleat refers to "lumbering pseudoprole Michael Moore". Too bad he's not a real prole: then we could say he put the 'lumpen' in 'lumpenproletariat'. Of course, he is a member of America's fastest-growing class: the lumpenintelligentsia.
Posted by Dr. Weevil at March 24, 2003 10:55 AMSo is it spring break in Rochester? 10:55 pm is a more usual posting time for you.
Posted by: steevil on March 24, 2003 11:06 AMI'd hoped that the phrase would remind one of "psuedopod," and all the blobby amoeba-ness that term suggests.
Posted by: lileks on March 24, 2003 01:45 PMIt appears that the lumpenpseudoproletariat (pronounced with a pronounced accent on the "lumpen") Moore has false semiconsciousness!
Sad, really.
Posted by: Robert Musil on March 24, 2003 08:59 PMAmoebas? Moore Mitosis? No, no, mommy, make that image go away...
Posted by: Michael Dingler on March 24, 2003 10:19 PM