pointy-heads

There had been some dumb idea from a bunch of liberal pointy-heads that it was a good thing to have such a committee -- they said it would diffuse tension, and they talked a lot of rot about safety-valves.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

While her academic bona fides (master's degree from the Yale School of Management) will satisfy the pointy-heads, more important, she knows real-world business and economics.

Replacing Christina Romer, Obama should look past the usual economic experts 2010

In fact the list of organisations giving evidence to the committee (mostly 'fake charities', the bulk of whose income comes from the taxpayer - Barnardo's for example closed its last children's home in 1989) is one to warm a social worker's heart, and the evidence presented (here) by the assorted pointy-heads deeply depressing.

Archive 2009-08-16 2009

There seems to be an assumption that almost all modern art and literature is part of the broader liberal conspiracy against mainstream America, and certainly that almost all attempts at what used to be called "higher criticism" are the work of pointy-heads.

Politics and Literature 2007

Oh, how I chuckled when I read this earlier - you have a wonderful way with words, Mr N, and sow damnation and confusion amongst the libdem pointy-heads as they try to deconstruct the concept of humour using a Marxian analysis

Anyway back to me ... Newmania 2007

Sometimes those pointy-heads do know a thing or two.

TPM Track Composite: Presidential Race Could Be Tightening 2009

And this massive, overly-intellectualized effort (I thought we liberals were the pointy-heads!) by Mr. Earling sheds no enlightenment as to a solution.

Sound Politics: Liberal Base Pulls Democrats Away from Rational Thought on Anti-Terror Policy 2006

You can guarantee that he'll be careful with your tax dollars, which won't go to artists who can't make it on their own, and leftist pointy-heads with their hands out but will, on the other hand, be dished out with abandon for an organ music festival and a cultural centre in a key province just before an election.

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

He knew my story angle beforehand and got a perfect shot of a petulant and furious Erika Harold muzzled by beauty pageant pointy-heads.

George Archibald: Shame 2008

For decades, many businessmen have been contemptuous of technical economists for being pointy-heads given to talking about an idealized world far removed from everyday reality.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993