Be Ready For Some Real Work When You Get Back From Your Break

Let us indeed enjoy the break, as our Editor-in-Chief wisely suggests below, but gird those loins, as a cursory scan of Asymmetrical Information reveals

So I have arrived safely in Aspen. I'm listening to Thomas Friedman urging America to lead the way towards "abundant, cheap, clean, reliable electrons."

The first two sentences alone indicate plenty trouble. I warned some time ago that The Atlantic was having a "Festival of Ideas" in Aspen this wknd., & now it's upon us. But allow me to make up for recent mad spewing madly at the web log where I'm the Editor-in-Chief, while ignoring duties here, & I'll just dissect these two sentences.

Keep it simple, stupid. Yes, blogging is semi-conversational, but one needn't start every item w/ "so," or "like." Megan is a step away from adding "you knows" to all of her oeuvre.

The very act of typing & posting tells us that she's arrived "safely," or at the very worst, even were she confined to a hospital bed for the duration of the "Idea Fest" she's able to sit up & type, so it can't be that bad.

Listening to Thomas Friedman would send many a person to a hospital bed, or the hotel nurse at a minimum; perhaps we shouldn't trust in Megan's safety for long.

And the mere fact that T. Friedman is speaking at the "Festival of Ideas" is indicative of what a pathetic shitfest this is going to be. I'll just repeat that (conversationally): Tom Friedman. Ideas. Gaarggh.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride, & I'll bet Ms. McA.'s take on it all even bumpier.

An example of just how bumpy from Ross Douthat (& what is it w/ these fucking dipshits & gawddamn Star Whores?):

Here's the first segment from another Aspen Table, in which Matt, Marc and I chatted with David Brooks about the future of the political parties.

No, I didn't watch it, but can you even imagine? Do you think Jonah Goldbrick will be there?