Sadly, No!

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 […]