Well, here's my reasoning (such as it is, remember, I am addled by old age and approaching senility): the US tax code is a disastrous, confusing, self-contradictory mess and really isn't at all as progressive as people would have you think. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's much about Grossman's analysis that is self-contradictory: If reading quickly will be encouraged by electronic reading, why would novels get longer? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". ❋ Unknown (2011)
Because of his intense and passionate nature, his extremes and contradictions puzzle, unless one admits that humans readily hold self-contradictory attitudes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'. ❋ Richard Holledge (2011)
Put another way, this self-contradictory assassin is actually more of a Marxist than McCollum, who actually wants to end frivolous government spending on, you know, stock car races. ❋ Bob Cesca (2011)
You people are making self-contradictory arguments ... and that's generally considered a sign that your position is based on something irrational, like fear, anger or even racism, as opposed to well researched and supportable reasoning. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The trick is to establish just enough consistency an immediate analysis task – attempts to build a consistent map of human knowledge are doomed because human knowledge itself is messy, contingent, and often self-contradictory. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Then Krugman's famous dictum that central banks should commit to be credibly irresponsible is somewhat self-contradictory. ❋ Unknown (2011)
So what if Avatar has a vapid lowest-common-denominator self-contradictory moralistic message? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even better -- her argument sounds like an implicit vindication of Reagan, but that really just makes it either self-contradictory or hostile to Reagan's legacy. ❋ Stephen Stromberg (2011)
He is in his own last analysis an individualist, albeit like the writer who saved him, he says, from a mid-life crisis a self-contradictory one. ❋ Unknown (2011)
