Sadly, No!

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 […]

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 […]

Above: Probably receiving one of those awards that rich kidsget for showing up We don’t know whether you’ve been following Little Horseshoes, Girl Reporter, as she explains, and clarifies, and over-explains, and backfills as to why journalism ought not to cover issues of national consequence, and ought instead to be shallow and sensational, so as […]

The P-word Above: Very important lecture that we are listening to Here is a test of whether one grew up privileged, which fails, methodologically, on several accounts — allowing me to quibble with a spooky and onrushing realization that I am a Manhattan-prep-school ‘libertarian’ who, by birth, has never had to move a muscle except […]

Words to live by 28 Nov 2007 05:01 pm Inspirational words this Thanksgiving from friend and very talented photographer Lara Shipley: No one would ever do anything if they realized how much they suck. Permalink :: Comments (0) :: TrackBacks (0) :: We’ll keep working on it, but Megan seems unlikely to stop launching cheerfully […]

Episode 9.73 x 10^16 (in a series of jabibbity-squillion). So long, farewell, auf wiedersehn goodbye . . . 18 Oct 2007 03:21 pm Forgetting that the entire industrialized world except for the US has nationalized health care, the best source of data on nationalized health care is a famous 1982 RAND Corporation study.* It shows […]

Which Half? If, as this Cato scholar claims, half the money that the US spends on health care is wasted, then perhaps it’s because we’re supporting the rest of the world in terms of health care research, or maybe something like that. PKBlog! I see Paul Krugman has a blog, although I must say it […]

Sometimes I hate my job. Not the balloon-animals thing, but the main daily job of writing for a prestigious Internet blog publication. Above: Smiling, even-featured females arewidely presumed to be ‘good on the inside’ Because okay, here’s what certain parties are trying to pass off on people these days: Class act 27 Aug 2007 04:48 […]

Above: The Becky Sharp of the glibertarian set Megan McArdle, a.k.a. Jane Galt, is up to her usual tricks: An exchange with a blogger who is apparently a philosophy student at the University of Virginia leads me to believe that many people are still misunderstanding my point about the morality of single payer healthcare. Many […]

Above: Class status, good looks,and so much more! Markets in everything 20 Aug 2007 06:16 pm Sweatshop copies of great art. Weren’t many of the originals produced in similar factory-like conditions? Professor? Mr Teachout? Mr Capps? Anyone? Permalink :: Comments (17) :: TrackBacks (0) :: Share This What she’s really saying: Hello, well-known art bloggers […]