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As noted in comments below, McMegan’s commenters are not showing any respect for her intellectual heft acquired, as she explains, by soaking in it Palmolive-style amongst her “family of academics” where, apparently, math was considered too jejune and probably best left to the proles.
Confronted with numbers and logicmication (since this is National Neologism Week), McMegan proceeds to pitch a princess fit and commence with the class war stopping just short of declaring ” I am the fucking Business and Economics Editor for The Atlantic you stupid motherfuckers! Question not my words or off with your heads!” followed by a slammed bedroom door and muffled cries of “I hate you ! I hate you!” and then ritual decapitation of many Barbies named after her favorite commenters who have let her down again.
If were McSuderman, I wouldn’t count on any McNookie tonight.
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No way that was her – she sounds as unprofessional as us unwashed commenters!
As for McSuderman, maybe McM’s anger and asserting the upper class position is good news, or at least part of the standard scenario.
Instant classic.
Separately, the third Sunday in July is the perfect time to celebrate National Neologism Week, now known as Jizweek.
Wow. That was some first class glibberish.
Jejune is a lovely word and it catches so much of Meggs’ failure of gravitas. Many men from her side of the political fence, and many men generally, are wont to say that when wimmin marry, gittin it reglar chills ‘em out.
Suderman never banged her. That’s my asseveration and I’m sticking to it.
I must say that your vacation did you quite well.
You’re in it for the long haul McSuderman.
Better get used to McMasterbation.
“Jejunosity” — in honor of National Neolojizm Week.
So it turns out that The Atlantic‘s Business and Economics Editor, possessor of an MBA from Chicago, cannot successfully perform a back-of-the-envelope calculation, consisting of a single division, around which she will construct her entire argument. Furthermore, every third positive assertion she makes will turn out to be demonstrably wrong.
Good to know.
Oh dear. McMegan keeps blustering, and the commenters keep rubbing himalayan pink sea salt in the wounds. This is like watching a Jersey Shore meltdown, only dumber.
And Tbogg, your second paragraph followed by the “McNookie” line rivals any sonnet ever written by Shakespeare. That’s unrefudiatable.
‘Get used to’? I thought that was the Conservatard Intellectual’s favorite sexual activity!
Jesus, that was fucking embarrassing. I hope they fire her and give the job to one of the commenters.
The Exiled had the best take on it:
Really its worse than that…she can’t do the back of envelope (really in your head) calc without a calculator, then screws that up!
and if I were you, I’d strike the last sentence in that post.
About once a month I get an e-mail from The Atlantic, all full of “all is forgiven, please come home!” replete with offers of a free year of the magazine. I reply that I’ll maybe consider it if they fire the ghastly McArdle woman. At least I’ve polite enough so far not to call her “McCurdle” in my response. Maybe next time I will…
I canceled my subscription and I still get the magazine. I just skip her articles and Goldbergs…
I really, really need some Wembley tonight.
A question has arisen amongst my pibbels. Bassets are truly pack creatures, right?
Would Wembley and Fenway like a fox to play with? We could find one for u.
If were McSuderman, I wouldn’t count on any McNookie tonight.
What is most nauseating about the above is that’s probably exactly how it’s phrased chez Petey & Meggers.
Worse even than that: she blames the real culprit…the calculator on her computer!
McArdle: “Huge mistake; the calculator on my computer won’t go into the billions…”
Looks like this trick of taking a number and dividing by the total population of the US is a running schtick with McDumb. No matter how meaningless the exercise.
tbogg, perhaps she can become the new America’s Worst Economist
It is hilarious to watch McMoron and her McMinions try and throw dirt and talk trash at the informed commenters that correct McMoron’s arithmetic and economics.
(of the “nyah nyah nyah, you’re a nobody! I AM the OFFICIAL ATLANTIC McBLOGGERATOR!”)
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Krugman is posting there under a pseudonym.
There’s only one thing for McMeghan to do. Close comments to everyone except those who agree with her, like other wingnuts do.
Replying to SnarkiChildOfLoki… “McMoron and her McMinions” couldn’t be more perfect.
If were McSuderman, I wouldn’t count on any McNookie tonight.
Since neither of them can count, that shouldn’t be a problem.
“Ooh, that was fantastic! I must have had like 10 orgasms!”
[voice from another room] “Did you say something, sweetie? I’m in here reading the Pottery Barn catalog!”
McNookie sounds like a fine business to start.
She’s got bidness understanding and could probably do a good job of getting it off the ground.
I will gratuitously make up shit and insult commentators for half of what she’s making. In addition, I will be funny as I do it. Think I could get me some of that McArdle gravy train monies?
She actually blamed it on her Mac dashboard calculator!
The whole thing is wretchedly fascinating. She tut-tuts one of her vile, soul-dead cheerleaders for being crude and then proceeds to to call one of her detractors’ arguments “obnoxious student crap.”
Tbogg, you are sublime.
Yet another win for Microsoft! My dashboard calculator handles Billions with ease!
Missy Meggie: Your remedial math teacher at Harvard called. She wants the C- back. If you need a bloody calculator to do 7.5 E10/ 3 E8 please don’t mention it when you apply at Mickey D’s. You’ll never get the job.
Cross-posted from my comment at Hunting of the Snark:
What is she using for a computer? A TRS-80?
On my computer, there is a FREE application provided by Microsoft called — believe it or not — “Calculator”. This strange “Calculator” thingy allows for up to 32 digits in a calculation.
So, let’s give McAddled the benefit of the doubt, and assume that by “billions” she meant 999,999,999,999 (any more and we be into “trillions”). By my count, that means that her numerator contained 12 digits…
Which means that she apparently wanted the answer to have more than 20 digits to the RIGHT of the decimal point. That would be one-billionth of one-millionth of ONE cent. And yet she brushes off $250 as “not a huge net benefit”.
As the old saying goes, “It’s better to be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” It appears McAddled is being paid to remove all doubt.
Additionally, that assumes spreading the stimulus over the entire population, not merely the currently unemployed, who number about 15 million. If one uses that as the distribution base, the amount per person is closer to $5000. And I’m still not sure why she even needs a calculator to do those computations. If my Jr year chemistry professor would have had any say in it, she’d have never graduated from high school.
You’re absolutely correct. I was just focusing on the absurdity of her “my computer can’t do that” claim.
But, clearly, she does not even understand the concept of “order of magnitude”, much less use it correctly. I am pretty sure that anyone this purposefully ignorant of a basic concept like that would not have been passed by my 8th-grade algebra teacher, much less a high school professor.
Ahem. Meggs is an undergraduate product of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her MBA is from Chicago. As to MBAs generally, what can they possibly really be worth? Dubya got one.
From Harvard.
Nationalize the Ivy League.
Yeah, but when you add in her extrasuperduperintellectual parents you get….
never mind…..
English? Sad to hear business schools still fall for the GPA inflation crowd, though that might explain a few things that have gone wrong in recent years.
My sincerest apologies for besmirching your alma mater. I got the Harvard impression from one of the respondents to her post (did I misread?)
As for her MBA status, I began my working career in 1976. Shortly thereafter occurred the invasion of the MBAs. American business stopped being about producing goods and services and transformed into an exercise of process to enhance the quarterly bottom line. Divisions that actually made (or did) things supplanted the goods and services as products in and of themselves to be traded and to be treated like draft animals that would be run into the ground and whose carcasses would then be sold to wring one last penny from them. Employees became fungible assets that could be discarded without concern when they no longer fit the business model. The MBAs produced in the last quarter of the 20th century, whether by Harvard, Chicago, or the Wharton School at Penn, are a blight on our economy and our society.
But I do repeat my apologies for misrepresenting here undergraduate provenance.
Fuck Harvard. I, like Meggs, was an English major at Penn.
Nonetheless, nationalize the Ivy League. Also the University of Chicago.
And screw the MBAs from Amos Tuck and Sloan. Dartmouth and MIT got plenty to answer for, too.
“intellectual heft”
Heh heh!
First of all, she should have used the regular Calculator app that Apple provides on their computers. It displays up to 16 characters. Second, there’s only about 300 million people in Murika, so that’s only NINE characters! So what the fuck is she yapping about?
Why the fuck doesn’t she just Go Galt already, so we can watch her die in the desert, using her last breath to argue that she comes from a family of “academics”, therefore she is immortal, and she shouldn’t have to prove it to some “student” Grim Reaper. And he would also leave her to die there, since there would be no McSoul for him to harvest.