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I give it a year
If the source you quote to support your argument is yourself, would it be reasonable to expect that you can properly quote what you wrote not even one year ago? Not if you’re Megan McArdle. Original argument: Between 1992 and 2008, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded rose almost 50 percent, from around 1.1 million […]
Credit where credit is due
We meant to get to this last week, and even though doing so now gets us a bit too much Krauthammer for one week, we would be neglecting our secret pledge by failing to highlight this from Charles “Chuckles” Krauthammer: Obama faces two massive problems — jobs and debt. They’re both the result of his […]
Four Horseman of the Apocalypse Sighted
ABOVE: K-Loaded Seriously, I’m expecting the sky to cleave open at any minute and for the four horsemen of the apocalypse to come galloping over the clouds. K-Lo, over at America’s Shittiest Website™ (aka America’s Most Excruciatingly Slow Website™) has cited a statement of the National Organization for Women. Approvingly. It’s like hearing Brent Bozell […]
Ross Can See The Future From His Front Porch
ABOVE: Ross Douthat If you have been wondering why people have been hurling themselves to their deaths from the windows of the New York Times building, leaving grisly piles of cadavers on Eighth Avenue, you can blame Ross Douthat. Each of these poor men and women preferred certain death to the prospect of having to […]
As Useful As Marriage Advice From The Pope
ABOVE: Megan “Do I Look Like A Bonobo? McArdle Megan McArgleBargle, The Once-Respected Atlantic How to Survive a Layoff Sell all your shit and take a job at Starbucks, you pathetic old losers. ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™ [h/t Roy]
The Greatest Argument Ever Made
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 […]
Your Life And $1.33 Will Get You A Cup O’ Joe
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 […]
The Self-Shortering Of Argie McBargle
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 […]
Our glorious American future!
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 […]
And she’s supposed to be one of the reasonable, intellectual conservatives!
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 […]