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Or perhaps the “Cul de Whack”, non?

No, that’s a cul de sack.

(For your European friends, coule de sac.)

Or they just have no standards at all.

I submit to you that these statements are not mutually exclusive, and I would venture the first is strongly dependent on the second.

That’s charming but I don’t think I want one of those.

a) My parents did not spring, full grown from the head of Zeus, into being on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I have relatives elsewhere
b) There are a surprising number of working class old people on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Posted by Megan McArdle | August 25, 2007 12:32 AM

So, it could be kind of like the Irish Jeffersons, with George McCardle moving on up when Megan was a kid, except, uh, the “born and raised” part.

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And as I apparently felt the need to post – twice – about a libertarian blogger’s height, I am off to reconsider how I am spending my life …

“…the idea behind the ’starve the beast’ theory is to rack up so much Federal debt via tax cuts and deficit spending that the government will be unable to fund any major social programs — 4EVAR!!1″

Not to mention all the “Defense” spending going out to every asshole who can plop down $10,000 a year for the National Repug Club membership fees.

…But none of those things are why they hired her. They hired her because she has connections and takes a conservative viewpoint.

I’d most definitely like her job.

I understand your concern, Meggie-baby. Let me help here: the reason everybody hates the French is because they’re so smug. And why are they so smug? Because they’re French Face it: when you think of France, what do you think of?

1) Great food.
2) Great wine.
3) Movies full of sex.
4) Jean Reno.

How can any mere American or Australian beat that? Lordy, having a French accent automatically gives you an extra 30 cool points. There’s no way the nasal drone of the ocker, or the various amusing US accents, can ever hope to compete.

So here’s what I suggest you do, Megsy: suck up to the French. Wildly. Learn the language, read the philosophy, watch the movies. And by all that’s holy, eat the baguettes and drink the wine. Think of the children.

There is an agenda. That agenda is to transform this country into a police state. We are already a surveillance society and we have some ways to go before we become a full blown police state but I am absolutely convinced that is the goal. We will take another step towards that goal next year when the Real ID Act goes into effect. People are in for a big surprise when that happens.

Many years ago, before even some people here were born, conservatives decided they had enough. They felt shut out and so they quite openly formulated a plan. If you can’t beat them, buy them. This is no secret, no conspiracy and the calls made by certain conservatives back in the 60′s or early 70′s to wrest control of the media away from liberals are public knowledge. CNN for instance was simply taken away from Ted Turner. He was paid well, it wasn’t stolen outright but he wasn’t looking to step down or turn the business over to Time either. It wasn’t his idea and he was not at all happy abut it.

So today those of us on the left look at the media and now we feel left out in the cold. Add to this that the internet lets us see how the media sausage gets made and people are I think justifiably horrified. But we should be very clear about one ting, the shift to the right in our national media has nothing to do with “business”. Media creates demand, it shapes conventional opinion. I suppose it could work the other way around but it rarely has.

I don’t know. Maybe The Atlantic isn’t a part of this and it really is just responding to the political landscape. I do however think that landscape is heavily slanted to the right, no, not even to the right but to the far right.

And Media isn’t just about business. They don’t produce widgets after all. They are a part of a conversation. as participants in that conversation we have the right to a voice also. No no no no.. strike all that. That isn’t what this is about. This isn’t old fashioned conservative vs liberal. Neocons are not conservatives, they are deeply, deeply radical and ultimately, I believe, fascists. They hide under the rubric of conservativism or libertarianism or whatever suits their purpose. We have to fight them every inch of the way or we will lose and lose big.

Maybe you all think I’m nuts but those are my thoughts about this.

Like most things in life, it’s who you know more than what you know.

To use your analogy, let’s say that the Atlantic used to produce the journalistic equivalent of a Saab: kinda staid, nobody’s ‘concept’ car, and pricey as well, but a certain class of readers were committed buyers because they associated the brand with reliable intelligent commentary.

My 1995 Aero takes offense to this.

Must be some deep roots, as she was “born & raised on the Upper West Side.” She did mention relatives in Western New York once. Maybe a great-grandparent was a supervisor in a factory in Buffalo or something. That would qualify as “proletarian’ roots for someone as fact-challenged as Ms. McA.