Andrew Sullivan linking to McMegan: Megan doesn’t like how Warren uses data: Heh indeedy.
Always, Always Wrong
At some point you would think this would begin to get embarrassing for the Atlantic. Also, too. (via)
This is ugly
I know I’ve pitched temper tantrums at commenters here before, so I don’t blame McMegan for losing her shit but for God’s sake, why can’t she correct a basic mathematical error (via Tbogg)? Megan McArdle sees someone suggest that Bush’s tax cuts for the rich should be eliminated and the money used for better purposes, …
Tunk in the trunk
My new favorite conservative pundit, Tunku Varadarajan: Here we have the Tea Party, one of the nation’s most organic, Athenian, democratic movements, being attacked by a political organization—the NAACP—that is among the most sclerotic, dinosaurian, and cadaverous of America’s political groupings. Remember when FreedomWorks bused those crowds into heckle Pericles? Unfortunately, this is only the …
The sporting life
I took all the Atlantic blogs (except Marc Ambinder, which has good reporting in it) off my RSS reader last week. They’re just too much of a big round-robin fluff-fest for me, plus I can’t shake the creepy feeling that one day I will watch Luke Douthat and Liz Goldberg discuss Rand Suderman-McArdle’s principled, centrist …
Just Shoot Me Them
It must be the off-season, when everyone goes on vacation, because neither DougJ nor the Sadly-naughts have discussed this particular travesty yet. Ken Layne at Wonkette tells us “The Atlantic [Is] Hiring 29 Journalists and an Idiot“: The media industry has fully recovered, as evidenced by this job listing seeking thirty (30!) journalists at the …
Life goes on
As you’re probably aware, the latest wingnut freakout is over a joke Paul McCartney told the other day: “After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president that knows what a library is.” It’s not surprising that the NRO has already done three pieces on this horrific crime, cleverly calling McCartney “Sir Jerk”. …