I owe Megan McArdle an apology. Actually, I’ve already offered it on the offending post, but as that snippet is now buried behind the front page, that seems insufficient. So here it is: In yesterday’s snark on McArdle’s item about the Washington Post’s arithmetical errors, I said “she actually writes…” about a Post mistake that …
Archives for December 2010
The Fiscal Commission’s Shit Show Fail Parade
I think the Jane Hamshers of the Left sums it up pretty well: Their reigning spirit of self-importance comes through on the very first page: “The Moment of Truth.” Here’s a gem. From the “goals” section: Reform social security for its own sake, not deficit reduction. Maybe they’d like to offer up their opinion on …
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Re: Readership Capture
I honestly don’t know what to make of this: So the main complaint given in DougJ’s circle-jerk post (wherein the advent of more dispute on the front page of this blog has somehow been labeled as an ‘Atlantic style circle-jerk’) is that too much of the argument is occurring in posts rather than comments. I …
The FCC and Broadband
This is Mistermix’s beat, but I thought I would start the discussion: Thwarted by the courts, by lawmakers on Capitol Hill and by some of his fellow commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission chairman will try again on Wednesday to devise a new strategy for regulating broadband Internet service providers. In a speech he plans to …
Did President Kyl Approve This?
This seems like good news: The Obama administration scored a victory in its drive to curb the worldwide spread of nuclear material with an agreement on Wednesday by the hard-line former Soviet republic, Belarus, to surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium by 2012. The announcement came at a European security conference here after a …
Getting Anonymity Wrong, As Usual
A Facebook exec has a long essay in the Times that trots out the whole anonymity on the Internet discussion, which goes like this: Trolls can be real assholes: After Alexis Pilkington, a 17-year-old Long Island girl, committed suicide earlier this year, trolls descended on her online tribute page to post pictures of nooses, references …
The Dark Canuck
One of Stephen Harper’s advisors is “feeling manly” today and says that Julian Assange should be assassinated. I have some good news for manly men like this guy. Because they’ve been under a massive denial of service attack, Wikileaks now hosting at Amazon. Last time I checked, Amazon is a US company, so unlike the …