Megan McAddled The reason why Megan McArdle gets paid to blog at The Atlantic and I do not is that I am intellectually incapable of devising brilliant arguments like this: For example, like a lot of evolutionary biology critiques, this one leans heavily on bonobos (at least so far). Here’s the thing: humans aren’t like [...]
We make fun of McMegan quite a bit round these parts. So much so, that I personally visit the Fire Megan McArdle blog a couple times a week to steal ideas for my own posts. That said, it can’t be denied that Megan seems to have some influence on policy debate, insofar as a distressing [...]
Megan McArdle has been in a mathematical uproar since HCR passed, honking on about how she’s 95 percent certain that three-fourths of half of a third of Ezra Klein’s predictions about a baker’s dozen of 17-sixteenths of the cosine of future mortality rates are eleventy percent likely to be a sham. We can’t quibble, but [...]
Megan “Two Sheds” McArdle, The Atlantic Monthly: Politico’s ‘Doc Fix’ Memo: Fake, But Accurate? Mar 19 2010, 3:37 PM ET Update: Please READ THE POST before launching into your attacks. Hint: the headline is name checking a famous quote, not suggesting that this was a valid idea. Had you read the post before beginning your [...]
Let’s set the stage. This stupid noise popped up on Teh Atlantic today or yesterday or last week or tomorrow or the day after last Tuesday or something: Precedents for Reconciliation I have at best a passing interest in the “legitimacy” of the reconciliation process, but James Joyner pretty much dismantles the current liberal talking [...]
Get ready, friends. Colorado Springs is just a trial run for what awaits us all: Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric. More than a third of [...]
I don’t blame voters for opposing health care reform. There were a lot of slimy deals with lobbyists and with Ben Nelson that went into it and people were turned off horrifically by the process. There was also the fact that the Dems didn’t really define what was in the goddamn thing until very late [...]
Aïda Hammond-Gackett: Illustration for McArdle’s Adventuresin Wonderland (1907) Megan McArdle, The Atlantic: More Snow in Copenhagen No, but wherever you stand, you have to admit it’s kind of funny that, okay, Al Gore, because global warming with the snow. Hahahaha! [poop] Uh, liberals often soil themselves. [grabs gym bag, pedals chair backwards out of room] [...]
Ann Althouse has asked for many apologies in her day. Not necessarily of me directly, but I suspect of my mindset in general, and certainly of people I’m aware of — such as Ta-Nahesi Coates, whose blog I sometimes stumble upon whilst looking for dirt on Megan McArdle. This cannot stand. I propose that today [...]
MDMcArdle: Then there’s business travel–most places I go, if I lose my ATM card, there’s a Citibank branch that can help e out in the area. Bancoke of America is pretty good too … (grinds teeth)
Megan McArdle, The Atlantic: My Last Word on Guns Okay, look: Waving assault rifles at Presidential events makes things harder for the Secret Service. Protests also make things harder for the Secret Service. Therefore BY LOGIC THE ONE EQUALS THE OTHER, so unless you suggest banning protests, WHICH ARE NOT AT ALL LIKE WAVING ASSAULT [...]
Via Jesse, here’s one of Megan McArdle’s readers explaining the real reason poor people are overweight: because they lack the ambition of their betters: I wanted to comment on your Bloggingheads event with David Frum and his total non-responsiveness to your theory about why people overeat. As someone who works in the entertainment industry in [...]
So here I am, back from the swamps of DC, thinking that maybe … just maybe … those health care town hall freaks are something to be concerned about. Maybe the real pulse of real America had been on display this summer when prune-faced old crackers shouted gibberish at candyfloss ghouls. Then, this: Who’s Crazy [...]
Ezra Klein and Ben Domenech (!) both do a fine job of upending Megan McArdle’s widely linked, glibertarian mess of an argument against national health care. But they leave a few basic things out, which we’ll get to. Klein accurately breaks down the McArdle position: Megan has two primary concerns. The first is that national [...]
Megan McArdle confesses: ‘I don’t understand the ban on paying for organs.’ She thinks there ought to be a market for body parts and wonders why this might be ‘controversial’. It meets a need, see, on the part of both buyers and sellers — the former for kidneys and such, the latter for scratch. A [...]
In which the erstwhile Jane Galt learns that if you hang around long enough, Chomsky will be right again: What it does suggest is that global capital flows may be way more problematic than I have historically been willing to credit. Though perhaps “learns” is too strong a description — she’ll have forgotten all this [...]
The Tea Party bashers: Clueless, bitter, and wrapped in tinfoil Michelle Malkin, March 2, 2009 You know you’re on to something when the tinfoil hat conspiracists start lobbing grenades at you. In response to the nationwide outbreak of taxpayer protests against the culture of entitlement, a loon at Playboy.com claimed that the Tea Party events [...]
Shorter Megan McArdle Above: “Moreover, I myself prefer to burn off leeches with a stylish Colibri lighter, but ymmv.” “Asymmetrical information” This economic crisis, like perhaps every other, comes from an inversion of normal Social Darwinist order: the strong but trusting were duped by the weak but devious; parasites did not ‘perish as they should’ [...]
What should Bush do now? One thing that I haven’t seen: work more closely with Obama’s transitional economics team than an outgoing president usually does. Everything I’ve seen about Bush and the transition indicates that he has been entirely classy. But right now, classy is not enough. The more publicly he is seen to coordinate [...]
Above: Yup, it’s McArdle again Schadenfreude? Yes, that’s the word for what you experience at the spectacle of a free-market glibertarian tying herself into a macramé tea cozy trying to justify her support of a $700,000,000,000 government bailout of the financial industry. What Am I So Afraid Of? [...] It is worth noting, in answer [...]
