Our glibertarian princess, our just-barely-Ivy League just-barely-intellectual, our bouncing baby bankster booster, our corporate whore who always wants to give more—Megan McArdle!—has returned! You can keep your Julian Sanchezes and Katherine Mangu-Wards and Tony Woodliefs, all amateurs at the fine art of deception and delusion. We’ll take the real thing, a woman who can toss [...]

John Stossel thinks you poor people should just quit your bitching: Yes, some people have suffered during the recession — but compared to all the other countries in the history of the world, America is rich. Yeah, sure, some people are eating dog food and living in their cars, but hey, it totally makes your [...]

Hey, as long as TBogg hasn’t taken back his keys, I’m gonna drive his nice little Chevette until it stops and I’m stranded far from any exit off this gorgeous Information Superhighway. And since my three-cylinder mind is still grinding, I want to address under-noticed issues that affect the Blogosphere. Like the ramifications of Weigel-o-rama. [...]

Bob Owens, the von Clausewitz of Chigger Falls, the Phlegm Snopes of Pajama Media, and real life inspiration for Cletus Delroy Spuckler shorely ain’t a-pinin’ away fer Robert Byrd. Hitchin’ up his drawers, he clambers up on his Speechifyin’ Stump down by the pig sty and addresses the local GOP gentlemen’s club as they hunker [...]

Obviously, one of these things is much more sickening than the other two, though none are terribly surprising. Let’s see if we can spot the problem. Worldwide Child-Raping Cult: The Vatican on Monday issued an unprecedented rebuke of a top cardinal who had accused the retired Vatican No. 2 of blocking clerical sex abuse investigations, [...]

Steve Chapman finds a nut: One study cited in Peter Brimelow’s 1996 anti-immigration screed, “Alien Nation,” found that 15 percent of new Hispanic mothers whose babies were born in southern California hospitals said they came over the border to give birth, with 25 percent of that group saying they did so to gain citizenship for [...]

Hey, kids, let’s put on a show! First, we will need money. We might be lucky enough to find a director with money, but we will also need backers. I know of several major corporations who would love to help us perform. I will accept their offers and we will be sheltered under the generous [...]

Hi. Expecting Dave Weigel to report on teabaggers and not point out that they are bitter low-information lawn-chair-bound racists is like asking Jane Goodall to omit any mention of the fact that her research centers around, you know, monkeys. Bye.

David Brooks worries that that nice boy Stan McChrystal would never have been fired if these kids would just cut their hair and stop smoking so much goddamn dope all the time: Then, after Vietnam, an ethos of exposure swept the culture. The assumption among many journalists was that the establishment may seem upstanding, but [...]

From a Slate roundtable debate, Jeffrey Goldberg, October 3, 2002: The administration is planning today to launch what many people would undoubtedly call a short-sighted and inexcusable act of aggression. In five years, however, I believe that the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality. Yeah. That didn’t happen, [...]