Apparently McMegan was jealous with all the press Sarah Palin was getting for repeatedly demonstrating her stupidity, and decided to demonstrate that not only does her calculator not work, but her pocket Constitution is broken and lied to her about the first amendment.
I blame gastritis.
Suffern ACE
Makes me wonder what happens in Hawaii. Or Canada for that matter.
scav
Nice to see her expanding her range — nothing duller than a one-trick pony of stupidity.
mr. whipple
I’m not sure anymore that these are acts of stupit. There’s just too many of them, and this is a particularly mendacious one.
Comrade Mary
Heh. The rotating tagline I see right now is, indeed, “Gastritis broke my calculator”.
cathyx
Did she purposely leave out Alaska from that map?
Mako
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0MMVKDwk4
Comrade Javamanphil
Shorter Pink-Himalayan-Salt-Pundit: Look at me! Look at me!!!!
BGinCHI
Looks like MN isn’t covered. Cue Bachmann.
Also, they literally sell pink Himalayan salt at my deli. Pink salt, how does it work?
dmsilev
The Google ad-o-matic sure is coughing up some strange things these days. Pro-life checks?
Redshift
Considering how commonplace the belief that “government is the problem” is among conservatives and especially glibertarians, it’s pretty amazing that they are incapable of understanding that the purpose of the Bill of Rights is to provide protection from the government.
The abject stupidity of believing that their right to assembly or free speech are absolute and must not be impacted by someone else’s right to free speech is just icing on the stupid-cake.
Kryptik
Christ, First Amendment does not mean you are exempt from criticism or facing your critics. Why has the de facto understanding of it devolved to this, and solely when it concerns liberal critics of conservatives?
rapier
I’m a barely casual follower of MM and last visited her blog over 2 years ago but from reading her for a little while I gathered that she has many health issues. I recall, perhaps incorrectly, allergies on a vast scale along with others I don’t recall. What I do recall was that if she had been born in different circumstances she would have had a miserable life. Unable to work the vast majority of jobs high school grads get. Her brand of High Libertarianism against her personal story suggests many many stories rich with irony and sadness.
Pooh
Meritocracy!
cathyx
I thought it was Doug J who makes fun of Megan McArdle and you make fun of Sarah Palin? Is there a mix-up?
Barb (formerly Gex)
@rapier: IOW the general outline for every pampered conserva-glibertarian. Born on third base. Thinks they hit a triple.
sherparick
You have to understand the Right. Everything I and my friends like and do is Constitutional. Everything I disagree with is Unconstitutional. See, it is simple that way.
Also, I note that Meagan is not adverse to the use of State power and taxpayer funds to lock up protesters who are being a nuisance to her dear friends the Kochs (who, as a side note, I understand to basically mutually detest each other).
Kryptik
@Barb (formerly Gex):
These days, it’s more like ‘born on third base, complaining to the ump why they weren’t credited with a homer’. Simply being privileged isn’t enough anymore.
BGinCHI
It really surprises me that McMegan likes Koch.
JCT
@Redshift: It’s a hopeless combination of abject stupidity + mendacity capped with a dollop of victimhood . The end result is a political party entirely composed of whiny titty babies.
I am beginning to wonder how they manage to dress themselves in the morning.
dcdl
Why did you make me push you down? It’s your fault that I pushed you down.
Kryptik
@JCT:
I’m more concerned with the fact that they’re ridiculously ascendant despite such a foundation of sand. Again, like the category here: “How are we losing to these people?” No, seriously, I want to know, because I honestly don’t want to believe that this whole country subsists solely on hippie-punching, now and forever.
Mark S.
Why is it so hard to understand that the First Amendment only applies to government? Congress shall make no law, etc.
burnspbesq
Is it actually news that Megan is a dolt?
Julia Grey
Her brand of High Libertarianism against her personal story suggests many many stories rich with irony and sadness.
No, Megan’s story is one of criminal carelessness, blithe ignorance, social grasping, and fervent self-delusion.
Playing Daisy and feeling like Gatsby.
She’s not sad, she’s…distasteful.
JCT
@Kryptik: It is a true mystery, it is starting to have the feel of some sort of version of the “The Others” — you know , “don’t you see that they are idiots?” Jon Stewart had a great send-up of the arch-imbecile Palin the other day and it had that otherworldly feel to it.
But I’m still not sure they are truly ascendant, maybe just really, really loud?
TBogg
This is nothing compared to her “tweakers and the Government are making my hunny-bunny suffer! Unfair! ” post.
Suederman probably tells his friends that he fucked her stupid without bringing up the fact that that is her original factory setting.
WarMunchkin
@BGinCHI: This is a bad time to ask this, but, how exactly do you pronounce “Koch”?
J.W. Hamner
@Redshift:
I believe the logic can be summed up thusly:
“Government is bad and liberals are bad. Thus government is the same as liberals. Therefore the 1st Amendment protects us against liberals. Q.E.D.”
Redshift
@Kryptik: We live in the Age of Bullshit. It’s always easier to come up with a BS argument than to carefully think out something that will actually work. And the country is now complex enough that even if your policies have produced absolute disaster, if you’re willing to spout absolute BS, you can confuse most people about what is actually responsible.
Most people, I think, still find it hard to accept that they’re being lied to a lot, because they themselves would never do that. And if they do become more cynical, they are all too likely to conclude that everyone is BS-ing them equally, which is also a win for the Bullshit Party.
Anne Laurie
@WarMunchkin:
Like the soft drink, apparently. Thus DougJ’s post title yesterday (“Buy the World, A Koch”)
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
Anne Laurie is right. Like the soft drink, not the former NYC mayor! The family history is pretty amazing; The wikipedia entries are a good supplement to the New Yorker piece.
lost in GA
Clearly, it’s merely, the sounds of science. Or some such. Good thing the Atlantic has a (several) fact checkers.
Ash Can
And they pay this bubblehead how much??
beltane
@rapier: She also would not be able to buy her own health insurance in most states. The free market says sickly people like her should just remove themselves from the gene pool and the risk pool.
Silver
@TBogg:
Ouch. I must retire to the fainting couch, and laugh my fucking ass off :)
beltane
@Julia Grey: She is worse than distasteful. McMegan is a whining, wannabe aristocrat who wants public policy to be crafted around her own personal emotional quirks and fetishes. Extreme subjectivity of this sort usually disappears by preschool, when most humans begin to express their innate sense of fairness. MCArdle is nothing more than an oversized colicky infant.
The Republic of Stupidity
@Anne Laurie:
Rumor has it the name was once spelled w/ an ‘r’ in it…
But every time they introduced themselves as the Kroch Brothers, folks immediately assumed they were producers and purveyors of porn, like Rupert…
They just couldn’t stand all the giggling and wink-winks…
So… long story short… the ‘r’ had to go away…
Kiril
Liberals should start showing up carrying their guns. McMegan approves of that kind of protest, IIRC.
EdTheRed
Expanding the rhymes of sucka MC amateurs indeed.
And really, that’s what she is, a sucka pundit amateur …
MattR
@TBogg: @Silver: I am loathe to admit it, but I agree with McMegan’s opposition to the idea of making pseudophedrine available via prescription only. I think there would be positive benefits but that the costs would far outweigh them. It is almost hypocritical to make that suggestion at the same time as we complain about the spiraling cost of health care. Additionally, it would be a large barrier for poor people to get pretty basic, safe, effective treatment for minor illnesses.
OTOH – I am OK with the annoying regulations in place now. I liked it better beforehand when NyQuil actually worked, etc but I see that as a minor inconvenience, especially since McMegan’s article showed that it made a significant dent in meth production. (I do think that some poor folks without ID are affected by this regulation but I also think they are able to get around it fairly easily with a little help form friends)
Mark S.
@MattR:
I agree. Making pseudophedrine prescription-only would suck balls.
General Stuck
I don’t mess with Macmegan much. Anyone that thick that rises to where she is has to have some powerful medicine watching over her. You all keep it up, but don’t come complaining when a piano falls on your head, or your cat grows thumbs.
J.W. Hamner
@MattR:
I won’t try to speak for them, but I don’t think it’s necessarily the policy preference that they find mock-worthy, but the construction of a policy argument around a personal anecdote.
It would be like if I wrote about a DMV/RMV experience where I had to wait for 2 hours to get my license renewed and had to sit the entire time next to a person with really bad B.O. And that this was essentially my entire argument for the elimination of the requirement of a driver’s license for the operation of a motor vehicle. Now imagine that I was not some random dude on the internet, but the “Business and Economics Editor of The Atlantic.”
Jebediah
@General Stuck:
Thumbed cats? Frightening…
Darkrose
@TBogg:
Actually…I hate to say it, but I agree with her. The pseudophedrine restrictions drive me nuts because the meth dealers can easily find ways to get the stuff–probably more cheaply than if they bought it at CVS–while those of us with chronic sinus trouble have to jump through hoops to get something that will allow us to breathe.
Meanwhile, I can go over to the next aisle and buy all the booze I want. Since I started going grey, I rarely even get carded.
Martin
@General Stuck: Thumbs would at least make the cat useful. You could ask it to turn down the TV when the phone rings.
Comrade Luke
@Darkrose:
Speaking of which, what’s the best over the counter sinus medication these days? Mine are killing me.
I can’t believe this topic came up today :)
Montysano
McMegan: Dropping science like when Galileo dropped his orange.
MattR
@Comrade Luke: Personally, I am a fan of Mucinex. The most important thing is to make sure you get the one that is behind the counter and has pseudophedrine.
Bob Is Boring
John Cole, dropping 22-year old hiphop references. It’s about to get all postmodern up in this bitch, oh my.
Oh, and it’s a wonder McMegan is employed and so forth &c.
Ailuridae
@Comrade Luke:
I hadn’t had to use any in a while but I got a nasty cold late last week. Nothing in the chest and no flu like sytmpoms but the generic of Advil Cold and Sinus worked great. I ran through a lot of kleenex but felt fine by the next day
Bob Is Boring
And it’s Claritin the-one-behind-the-counter-I-have-to-sign-for or not breathing for me. It sometimes causes naps, which is pretty tame for a side effect.
Ailuridae
@MattR:
Mucinex is a god send if you have chest congestion. Man I wish they had that when I was a kid getting a couple of bouts of sever bronchitis a year.
Comrade Luke
@Ailuridae: OK, I”ll go with that or the Mucinex if I have to. Thanks!
Silver
I wasn’t talking about the first part of Tbogg’s post, folks…
Wile E. Quixote
@Barb (formerly Gex):
And then someone hits a single but instead of running it in they trip the other runners, wander off to right field, end up getting tagged out and then blame ACORN and demand that the government give them a do-over.
Wile E. Quixote
@General Stuck:
Oh please, McMegan has gotten where she is because a bunch of dumb, horny geeks want to fuck her. Some day someone younger and prettier will come along to be “Business and Economics” editor at the Atlantic and McMegan will be out on the street. I for one can’t wait until McPeter McSuderman dumps her ass for someone younger, any bets on how long that will take?
Angry Black Lady
expandin’ the rhymes of sucka mc amateurs.
nice eulogy for paul’s boutique. RIP.
Morbo
I see Notre Dame is singled out on that map. Are they exempt from the Free Speech Zone?
cleek
Ponce De Leon constantly on
The fountain of youth not Robotron
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
What a pathetically stupid person.
I say again, if you had to pass a 6th grade level civics test to retain your U.S. citizenship, dipshits like McCurdled would have to perform their dipshittery in another country.
liberal
@Kryptik:
The tragedy of the logic of collective action. The rich are many fewer in number, have lots of money, and have a very narrow and clear agenda (lower taxes on the rich). So they have a much simpler collective action problem to solve.
liberal
@Wile E. Quixote:
Is she really physically attractive at all?
liberal
@Darkrose:
I thought people who study drug abuse claimed that these restrictions really have decreased meth use, but could be wrong about that.
asiangrrlMN
I refuse to read MM2, but I am sensing that she is once again whining about being made to look the fool with her very own words. Amirite? I really need the shorter with her articles as I don’t have the patience or enough eye flexibility (for the rolling) to read her crap.
catclub
@Wile E. Quixote: Someone has been watching “Upperclass twit of the year” competitions again. Shooting a tied down rabbit is no joke.
mds
@liberal:
Yes, yes you could.
To be fair, you probably remember all the positive press over the steep drop from 2004 to 2007. Ever since, though, it’s been getting worse again.
Meanwhile, from the linked article:
This is the sort of self-serving dumbshit remark that brings out my own left-libertarian wererabbit side. Especially when the above is coupled with this from the same article:
Yup, more dealers, more users, Mexican cartels getting involved because the money is so good … clearly it’s because the restrictions on my use of a legal substance for its intended purpose are working.
ed drone
@Wile E. Quixote:
True enough, and yes, they would really rather wander past the pitcher’s mound toward right field than ever have anything to do with left field. Sort of like J. Edgar Hoover, who forbade his driver to ever make a left turn.
Ed