Plucky Girl Detective Megan McArdle is still hard thinkin’ on The Mystery Of The Heartland Memo because THE MATH DEMANDS IT among other reasons: But not a full understanding of those documents, because the memo made curious errors. Most notably, it claimed that the Koch foundation had given $200,000 in 2011, when the actual number [...]

Yesterday James Poulos, writing for Tucker Carlson’s Chronicle Of A Career Death Foretold, penned a gaseous belch of a post called “What Are Women For?” which was, offensive title aside, what you might expect if you were to dump two scoops of over-educated rhetorical flatulence, a half-cup of undercooked thought experiments, a few overly-ripe bon [...]

Susan of Texas (who has infinitely more patience with McMegan than I do) waded into the McArgleBargle that is the comments over at McMegans’s Sociopaths With Broken Calculators site regarding Komen and Planned Parenthood which naturally led to a discussion about abortion. And then this happened: susanoftexas 2 weeks ago in reply to McMegan You [...]

Megan McArdle who is ”a senior editor for The Atlantic who writes about business and economics”  is using her very influential pulpit at The Atlantic to share pictures of her new kitchen which had to be constructed to house her $15oo slicer/dicer/high powered Bechamel pump and also to make up for the trauma visited upon the [...]

Shorter McMegan: Faced with a choice between my belief in the right of a woman to choose and a highly successful corporatized  grifting machine, well, grifting machines have feelings too, ya know.

Shorter McMegan: Now that the gig is up on the fraudulent accounting tricks that metastasized following financial deregulation, New York City’s Masters of the Universe will be taking smaller bonuses which in turn will plunge the city into a Mad Max-like dystopia. Happy now, moochers? Well, are you?

Ann Althouse explains the proper etiquette for requesting a blow-job from a stranger in a crowd: Now, obviously, the words “going down” mean happening, especially when the subject of the verb isn’t a person and when there’s no object preceded by the word “on.” That is, to refer to oral sex, he would have something [...]

Breaking! Must credit Ole Perfesser! Later today, Reynolds will probably serve up a link to someone complaining that people are being mean to Scott Walker because he’s trying to keep state employees from looting the taxpayers.

McMegan wants to remind you that you are ON DEADLINE if you are planning on purchasing any kitchen tchotckes from her Exclusive Must Credit Megan McArdle Cool Beans SkyMall Kitchen Gadget List and want to take advantage of two-day shipping: Unmentioned, of course, is the fact that McMegan gets a kickback through Amazon when you [...]

Santa’s historian explains it all to Virginia: Basically, I told Santa, “What you have to do is fly in at the end of the year. It serves as a nice coda for people, plus it works better from a tax perspective.” That’s what Ronald Reagan and I did in the ‘80s, Virginia, and it’s what [...]