Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo · 19 hours ago
Awesome. Terrorists make threats, terrorists win. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/source-top-five-theater-circuits-758843 …
Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo · 19 hours ago
In fairness, lawyers probably told the chains they had no choice. If there were an attack, the chains would be bankrupted by the liability.
Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo · 19 hours ago
Nonetheless, the Greatest Generation are spinning in their graves fast enough to power a high-speed monorail between Chicago and New York.Sony should immediately release The Interview online. I’d pay for it, if only to give the hackers a bit of heartburn. http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/17/7407493/why-sony-pictures-should-release-the-interview-online …It’s your civic duty to watch The Interview: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-17/hollywood-cant-cave-to-north-korea-on-the-interview …BREAKING: America apparently a nation of lily-livered pantywaists who let terrorists threats dictate which movies we’re allowed to watch.All right, America, if we can’t watch The Interview, we have a civic duty to spend at least two hours over Xmas making fun of North Korea.In related news, script about North Korean defectors is also in trouble. I don’t know enough swear words for this. http://www.wsj.com/articles/sony-cancels-release-of-the-interview-us-blames-pyongyang-for-hack-1418844906 …
McArdle has said little to nothing about the release of the torture reports, ignoring it now as she ignored it then. However there is no Glenn Greenwald to point out her lack of concern for the consequences of her choices. She will be able to happily defend America's honor over a movie while ignoring America's dishonor and nobody else will notice.
She will cash another billionaire's check and go to the movies. The screams of our victims will not sully her beautiful mind--or career.
As awful as that is, Tyler Cowen embarrasses himself even more.
Megan McArdle retweetedIs it silly to think that North Korea probably has committed an act of war against the United States?
He did his best to look manly but when it comes to capacity for ferocity and hatred he can't hold a candle to McArdle.
Added: I am pleased to be wrong. David Atkins displays McArdle's jingoism to the world and reminds her that the Free Market Fairy isn't an American patriot.
Added: I am pleased to be wrong. David Atkins displays McArdle's jingoism to the world and reminds her that the Free Market Fairy isn't an American patriot.
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No mention that these are corporations that are free to choose how they will handle the situation and are making a rational, market driven decision. This is what she usually goes all in for...
She started with a nod towards corporate supremacy but was caught up in the fun of ganging up with her friends against a common "enemy." In other word, a typical day in the high school lunchroom of their lives.
Why is blogger making us jump through hoops to comment? I checked "no" on the word verification setting.
"BREAKING: America apparently a nation of lily-livered pantywaists who let terrorists threats dictate..."
Really, breaking? Anybody who's been paying attention for the last decade or so knows that.
Also, new game: finish that sentence.
Um, and isn't Sony a Japanese corporation?
But Judd Aptow and Seth Rogan are conservative culture darlings. As much as her heart belongs to Daddy Corporations, she is a libertarian and can't resist the siren song of cool.
That's my theory.
America apparently a nation of lily-livered pantywaists who let terrorists threats dictate...
So many choices.
Foreign policy
Tax rates
New Doritos® chip flavors
I could go on.
she is a libertarian and can't resist the siren song of cool.
Of course, this. I believe she once proclaimed herself to be "Miss Zeitgeist" because she wanted to justify waiting in line with the rest of the peasants for some overnight release of Apple's latest gotta-have-the-coolest-thing-in-the-universe-until-the-next-one-comes-along iPhones.
As long as there's money in it, "high school" just never gets old.
She did, and maybe she was right. The reason I discuss her work is because she truly is the spirit of out times; deliberately dumb, violent, greedy, selfish, petty, spiteful, and vain.
I purposely chose not to watch The Interview because I was not going to let anyone manipulate me into watching a movie I had no interest in seeing in the first place.
It amuses me to think of McArdle and P. Suderman forcing themselves to watch Rogan and Franco and pretending to enjoy it out of solidarity.
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