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 [...]

Our Lady Of The $1500 Blender spent yesterday explaining  “the poor, you will always have with you,”  because they choose to be that way, or as Susan of Texas puts it: Here McArdle assumes that the poor chose to be poor because they are incapable of doing otherwise. McArdle chooses to believe that everyone gets [...]

As the lovely Susan O’ Texas points out, our Lady of The $800 Robotic Diamond-Encrusted Fork & Spoonerator has her hotly anticipated Kitchen Gift List up, and by “hotly anticipated” we mean that McMegan is literally being deluged with special pleadings from readers desperately seeking direction lest Christmas become merely a celebration of our Lord [...]

Megan McArdle is back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant with pride, because she works so damn hard for the money that paid for her $1500 nutchopper/heater/blender/death ray/calculator-that-doesn’t-omit-decimal-points thingamajig: I wanted to out myself before I put out the kitchen gift guide (going up later today!), but I was pretty sure I was going to [...]

Slightly shorter Katie “Rape Apologist/Sexual Harassment Is Enlivening” Roiphe: I have this perfectly lovely and brilliant “friend” who writes these amazing essays after which, for reasons that escape me, my “friend” is mercilessly attacked online by mobs of disrespectful nobodies for supposedly being a smug pretentious over-privileged purveyor of unfounded sociological twaddle. Since I find [...]