tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post6087758150979599258..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Profit!Susan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-62883400365364117342011-01-20T14:21:01.066-06:002011-01-20T14:21:01.066-06:00I suppose that her UK stint is also the reason why...I suppose that her UK stint is also the reason why we have to suffer through her incessant use of superfluous "rather"s?<br /><br />Apparently, she thinks she's writing for the Mid-Atlantic.atatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-2352417291939435222011-01-20T13:45:01.799-06:002011-01-20T13:45:01.799-06:00She regretfully stopped "taking" a magaz...She regretfully stopped "taking" a magazine she no longer found interesting? And if you regret minor things like "taking" magazines, isn't it easy enough to correct by "re-taking" them? Oh, that's right. Megan's, regretfully, an exceedingly crappy writer.<br /><br />There are other ways besides circulation for a magazine to turn a profit. It helps that they've got free ad space for corporate interests in the form of Megan's blog.Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-9722212985651282002011-01-20T12:57:21.177-06:002011-01-20T12:57:21.177-06:00Maybe we should just have a giant set tags for Meg...<i>Maybe we should just have a giant set tags for Megan </i><br /><br />Of course we should. Such is blogging.Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-89304187276304526862011-01-20T10:02:32.585-06:002011-01-20T10:02:32.585-06:00Maybe we should just have a giant set tags for Meg...Maybe we should just have a giant set tags for Megan like "we can never know anything about anything ever."<br />"correlation, not causation"<br />"fictional numbers" <br />"confirmation bias"<br />etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-57827556375987390042011-01-20T10:01:37.855-06:002011-01-20T10:01:37.855-06:00and her last word on Loughner reads like idiocyand her last word on Loughner reads like idiocyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-30862129508709813632011-01-20T09:42:56.253-06:002011-01-20T09:42:56.253-06:00And "chap," as well as a couple of other...And "chap," as well as a couple of others. McArdle worked in Great Britain for a while and evidently now feels herself an honorary Englishwoman instead of a Scotch-Irish-American.<br /><br />I don't see why anyone would worry about hiding their bias anymore. McArdle's readers like her work because they know it will respect authority and praise the rich and successful. They often say "even if it isn't true, blah blah"--they don't care about the facts at all, they just want to have a kaffeeklatsch to tell each other how horrible those liberals are and how McArdle's lies support their bigoted assumptions. <br /><br />But politics is only a small part of the problem. Family and church tell us self-esteem is bad so people base their self-worth on externalities like national pride and visible demonstrations of group identity.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-84926998445929426902011-01-19T22:33:20.718-06:002011-01-19T22:33:20.718-06:00Stopped taking it? Is that some British colloquial...<i>Stopped taking it? Is that some British colloquialism or something?</i><br /><br />Yes that goes along with the "rumour" and "colour" spelling she used to employ.<br /><br />Now if she'd just stop taking the Prozac mixed with LSD, her calculator might make sense to her again.UncertaintyVicePrincipalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-89112463174481710032011-01-19T18:23:05.439-06:002011-01-19T18:23:05.439-06:00"Given how high the price is[…]I stopped taki...<i>"Given how high the price is[…]I stopped taking the magazine."</i><br /><br />Stopped taking it? Is that some British colloquialism or something?atatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-29501263038081537422011-01-19T17:13:33.938-06:002011-01-19T17:13:33.938-06:00Harpers is so much more substantial than the Atlan...Harpers is so much more substantial than the Atlantic that there's ultimately no basis for comparing them. It's like comparing People to the New York Review of Books: of course the former will always have more money than the latter. That's the way of the world.<br /><br />In quasi-fairness to McArdle, this disparity goes back years, at least to when Lewis Lapham assumed the helm of Harper's at the very time that the Atlantic was the vehicle of that fatuous clown Mort Zuckerman (really the comparison between the two men is a precis of the long-standing difference between the two mags).kthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12807643816565849458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-15385158565473849522011-01-19T16:38:14.078-06:002011-01-19T16:38:14.078-06:00It appears that in the fine free market we must ta...It appears that in the fine free market we must take lying as given, then.Kiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652157502257079776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-17947318916658024322011-01-19T15:56:20.630-06:002011-01-19T15:56:20.630-06:00... MacArthur responded: "They're lying. ...<i>... MacArthur responded: "They're lying. They're a private company and they can say whatever they want..."</i><br /><br />And so Megan unwittingly (as always) reveals the Atlantic's business model.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.com