They wanted Andrea McArdle, who was so perky in Annie all those years ago. They forgot to double-check the name. This is why the cuts in fact-checking departments will be the death of American magazine publishing.

Hey, speaking of the Atlantic blogs, James Fallows has a MacBook Air, and is doing a series of posts on it. The latest one has some comparison timings on routine tasks (putting it to sleep, waking it up) compared with a ThinkPad T60 running Vista.

The last pick in the blogger draft was Pajama Media’s and they wasted it on Atlas Juggs.

It reads like something written in a post in Democratic Underground.

I thought the Swing Voters were all going for Benny Goodman.

“, speaking of the Atlantic blogs, James Fallows has a MacBook Air, and is doing a series of posts on it. The latest one has some comparison timings on routine tasks (putting it to sleep, waking it up) compared with a ThinkPad T60 running Vista.”

G_d forgive me, even as I marked this as unforgiveably geeky I started to hit the link….

I must stop!

“… the sort of people who staff the Times, feel that they are entitled to manipulate the election in order to get teh “right” results…” — riiight, people like our BFF Bill “hey, it’s never a lie if you’re a Republican” Kristol who is currently the Tom Friedman Professor of Inaccuracy and Conjecture on the editorial board.

If Megan’s mom seriously would consider voting for McCain in order to spite the New York Times, then by all means let her and every other mouthbreather who is able to tap a touch screen come November. But I assume, then, for fairness’ sake, that anyone with an IQ higher than a sweaty sock can vote for a Democrat simply in order to spite Fox News?

Should be landslide…

Shorter McCardle:

“I generally look for the stupidest person I can find and repeat their opinion. Amazing how often it turns out to be my closest blood relative.”

…well, McCardle clearly has tapped into the sense of the “Swing Voter” in the same way that Tom Friedman has captured the “Man On The Street” viewpoint through all those chatty, observant cab drivers he keeps running across…

Shorter McCardle:

“I generally look for the stupidest person I can find and repeat their opinion. Amazing how often it turns out to be my closest blood relative.”

You, sir, win at the internets.

I’m voting for Glenn Miller myself.

OK, election’s over, you can all go home because Megan McArdle’s mother is voting for Insane McCain. Hell, maybe we should just play it out anyway.

grumpyforester: Ya beat me to it! That was my first thought - the “invisible made up person” gives advice. It’s the argument a teenager uses, “Why can’t I do that? Everyone I know does!”