Since Megan McArdle’s male bloggers are leaving most of the work to the women, let’s look at Ms. Courtney Knapp’s latest contribution to The Atlantic. Knapp is a “tipster” for Reason and a friend of McArdle, which tells us that she must, at the very least, have libertarian leanings. But being a libertarian in reality [...]

Jimmy Carter is 452 years old, but he still kicks more ass before breakfast than many of us do all day long. Given the antics of the presidents who followed him, particularly the most recent reign of Fratty McFartjoke, I have to say America might not have appreciated Jimmy adequately the first time around. Also, [...]

How many things are wrong with this photo? Asshole car? Check. Douchebag vanity plates? Check. Laker flag? There were four of them. I took this picture I took 15 minutes ago in a parking garage in the Greater LA area. I had to get some eye drops for the pink eye my kid and my [...]

God, Mom, I’m bored. There’s nothing to dooooooooooooo: Coverage of the BP oil spill has certainly reached marathon status, the kind of thing still likely to lead on the evening newscasts — so likely that the networks risk evoking “oh not that again” reactions from viewers. It’s an unhappy fact of TV news life: the [...]

God Whisperer Tony Woodlief sentimentally mentions the McArdle wedding, which we will ignore in favor of one of his observations: The room was filled with brilliant, snarky people, many of them paid to analyze or critique, nearly all of them familiar enough with politics and human nature to spot sentimentality and cons and prevarication a [...]

I used to say, during the election when Sarah Palin would inevitably be compared to Margaret Thatcher, that Thatcher would eat her for breakfast and then have McCain for a tasty midmorning snack. Looks like Maggie may have to polish up the carving knives: Sarah Palin, the once obscure governor from Alaska who is shaking [...]

Now, I don’t want to jump to conclusions… So let’s look forward. Let’s not quibble about who screwed whom. After all, as I was reminded in a previous post, those dumb fishermen Cajuns/Vietnamese/Croats were, in many ways, just as guilty as the multi-national oil corporation whose epic oopsie was simply a mistake no one could [...]

Dennis Prager is fighting for the right to keep his penis. Or something: What do transgendered have to do with gays? How and why are they connected by activists, gay and straight, on the Left? Strictly speaking, gays have no more in common with transgendered people than straights do. To understand the answer is to [...]

This is the premise: It’s Sunday afternoon (On this particular Sunday afternoon, I’m simmering some Chile Verde, having a Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA and waiting for some Angeleno friends to come over so I can make distasteful Kobe jokes all afternoon while rooting for those stalwart Hibernian b’ballers from Boston to take a 3 – [...]

Not us–them. Meet Megan McArdle’s guest-bloggers, a highly diverse group of young(ish), white, conservative, policy wonks with dogs who work (or worked) in DC’s network of conservative think tanks, information brokers and writers. First up is a Cato scholar, whom I’ll number Cato 1, Cato being the well that burbled forth so many McArdle friends. [...]