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Megan is truly back and in full effect. It's almost as if generous paid vacation time is a good thing for a person. Too bad it'd hurt the bottom line to let the plebs have it.

The beginning of the end: Hillary is totally gonna have to drop out soo.... oh, she pretty much already has?

Insomnia and iTunes: .... I said I wouldn't get personal, didn't I.

In the event of Rapture, this bank account will NOT be empty:

as an agnotheist, I am not expecting to be swept up in the Rapture.

Your choice to call yourself an agnotheist would be more meaningful, Megan, were it not for three things. First, you did not coin the word, a poet did. Second, it's not a very good word, as constructed. If you used the components of the word to guess at its meaning, you'd probably come up with something absurd like "someone who doubts the existence of theists".* Megan wants it to mean an agnostic who's almost an atheist, but without the negative "a-" prefix it just ain't there. I can call elephants "carrot sticks", but if no one else joins me in doing so I'm just being an idiot. Ah yes, and third, your only apparent issue with the word agnostic, Megan, is that so many other people use it, too. Your degree of doubt makes you special, just like every other thing you do. Your bowel movements are fucking special.

No deal:

Via Vegan.com, a great article from the New York Times on "recipe deal breakers".
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My recipe dealbreakers:
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5) Excessive chopping of onions, which leaves me crying for hours
6) Olives. I hate olives. (though I love olive oil)
7) Cherry pitting

She forgot any recipe which doesn't allow her to discuss her being a Meganvegan, her special word for vegans who also are named Megan McArdle, but I suppose that goes without saying.

Sticker shock:

I know, I should link more. I tend to forget that my readers don't know everything I know--that they haven't written a couple dozen stories about European disability and pension systems, growth rates, unemployment, immigration, and so forth. That's the hazard of blogging--print journalists have editors there to remind them what other people don't know.

Even when Megan makes a mistake, it's really the fault of her readers and non-existent editors. Megan, on behalf of everyone, I apologize. We all need to remember that when we disagree with her, it's because we don't know what we're talking about.
I wonder what happens when someone whose ass she has to kiss to grow her career calls Megan wrong. Does smoke come out of her ears as she tries to determine whether to prioritize defending her infallibility versus her career?

I still don't like Megan.

*- Update:

It occurs to me that agnotheist might be better rendered a- gnotheist, meaning someone who is not a gnostic theist, a fairly common status in that brief period since the Middle Ages, depending on how you draw the lines between the two traditions and all sorts of theological doowhatzits I know squat about.