Oh my, I perhaps should have started reading Crooked Timber long ago.
Highlights (Re: Megan's comparing conservatives not entering academy to blacks not becoming bankers in 1950):
Ah, I know what’s missing! The entire legal apparatus of segregation and Jim Crow! If McArdle knew her pre-Civil Rights Era history better, perhaps, she would remember that conservatives in the armed forces were not allowed to fight alongside their moderate and liberal fellows until 1948, when President Truman issued his famous antidiscrimination order and provoked the “Dixiecrat” backlash dedicated to preserving the second-class status of conservative-Americans. Even as late as 1964, in Holly Bluff, Mississippi, school officials spent $190 for every liberal or moderate student and $1.26 for every conservative.
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Yes, Crooked Timber is an excellent blog.
She has been on a roll lately; you all have been derelict.
call us the Alice May
The rest of the internet is more than picking up the slack. She's been bitch-slapped by Balloon Juice, Alicublog, and a few other places for the outpid of stupid she's been pouring on heavy lately.
I want more wedding blogging!
Did you see her Atlantic article on downloading music? A couple commenters noted that she was just repeating stuff that had already been said by many others.
Already dropped the link at Susan's, but Megs has apparently found a fanbase in those nutter Landover Baptists.
She keeps great company.
"Did you see her Atlantic article on downloading music?"
I can only imagine. In the comments following her Kindle vs. iPad ramble she made the ridiculous claim that most people can't figure out how to copy music to CDs. Of course we know that when she says, "Most people..." she's really just talking about herself. I'm sure she's found some way to blame the Post Office for her inability to download music.
Whenever I go to the post office, they're so happy to burn me a CD. She doesn't know what she's talking about :).
Clever Pseud--
Not sure if you know this, but Landover Baptist is a parody site.
Apols. if you do.
Mr. W. - ;)
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