Let's Not Get Crazy Here, People!

Yeah! She's talking up affirmative action!

But hey, we all get things we don't deserve. I'll go further: almost all of us get something we don't deserve as a result of our race, including white people. Perhaps even especially white people.

Yes, perhaps. It might be that white people are overwhelmingly represented disproportionately in the ranks of the privileged. Or, maybe black people are just stoopid, too. I dunno. Too hard to tell, really.

If you don't believe it, ask yourself why repeated studies show that resumes with identifiably black names get fewer interview offers than identical white resumes.

Which is why she modifies her statements about racism? Wait, when she says "if you don't believe it" is she implying that she's trying to convince someone that racism exists? Perhaps not.

Sonia Sotomayor is not manifestly unqualified to be a Supreme Court justice, so focusing on affirmative action is completely irrelevant.

But the fact that your cohorts are doing it is only maybe, kind of, and indication that they're racist, short-sighted dicks. Perhaps.

You can argue with her politics or her legal judgement, and hey, I'm all ears.

Liar.

But the affirmative action complaints aren't advancing our quest to find out whether or not she'd be a good justice. They're just alienating the people you want to convince.

Megan, consistent with her uncanny ability to be about one or two years behind the conventional wisdom of even the most stubborn moron, is just now realizing that Republicans have gone insane. Perhaps.

On the Lighter Side...

This is so cute I almost cried.

When the Tide Goes Out, The Ocean Sweeps Itself Back, I Guess.

No words, just stupid.

Read for yourself. She's actually playing neutral on the "republican car dealership closures" scandal.

Yes, Megan, it does look bad indeed. It looks very bad when you're a total moron who doesn't understand simple statistics even when Nate Silver explains them in kindergarten style.

Oh, and read the comments if you really want to die. You will either explode or collapse from despair at the stupidity of the world.

Quiet on All Fronts

I'm on vacation this week, so blogging will be light. GM will have to have its death throes largely without me.

So it goes, so shall we all.

I wish I had as much vacation time for as little work as our muse, but we've said that before. Then again, what's to be said that hasn't been said already? How oft have that question itself been asked? Like a Tootsie-Pop, the world may never know.

UPDATE: It's gotten to the point where I post without even reading her all the way through. So I put that up without reading on, figuring it'd be a boring bit that wouldn't interest me. I was wrong:

But I do want to point to two articles that point to a growing problem that the Obama administration has failed to address in any serious way: the exploding deficits, and the resulting need to borrow heavily.

Um, that's only one problem. I posted the following comment over there, which may finally get me banned. I'm so tired of sweeping back the ocean. I am not reading any further for this particular piece.

We will "cure" the budget problem by not passing a 800 billion dollar stimulus in the future budgets. We will raise revenues by not having our economy in the crapper in the future.

If either of those don't happen, we have bigger things to worry about.

Unless of course you're talking about the pre-stimulus deficits, which are somehow Obama's failure. I couldn't think of anyone else to blame that one on. Of course, we must think forward, so I guess we'll blame Obama for not fixing the economy AND the problems we had before the economy tanked?

You are seriously the world's worst econoblogger. Seriously, do you ever think? That's not trolling. It's backed by fact. You are a horrible blogger and you never think. We've documented this for a while now. Perhaps your desire to do a job with a modicum of competency would cause you to pay us heed?

The Burr Beneath Her Mini-Cooper Upholstery

Absolutely w/ NutellaonToast on this. Bored, & unable to deal w/ econo-blogging. Saw this mess on memeorandum, & was depressed by the mere idea of dealing w/ it. (brad?)

However, working from the comments to NoT's item immediately below, & some other assumptions, I can only conclude that Ms. McArdle prefers researching the intimate details of someone's life, Michelle Malkin-style, to statistical research on econo-facts. (Especially when you can make the facts make the victim look like a perp.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, or assuming something not in evidence.

Also referring to the comments below (Being a contributing ed. has its privileges: Imagine the indignity of being forced to reply in the comments!) I thank Dillon for clearly stating my, at least, attitude:

Similarly, FMM's mission is to cause Megan to be fired with extreme prejudice, or failing that, to marginally irritate her to the point where she does some research.

Hey, what's important is that it piss off the liberalslibertarians, right?

Mission Accomplished

I'll leave the inanity of the post for someone else to cover. Frankly, I'm bored with McMegan lately and kind of busy, so whatevs. I would like to take this moment to modestly state that this blog kicks ass! Though we've not gotten McConomist fired, we've certainly made her feel the pressure. She felt us nipping at her heels and put it in overdrive. Look at her output, lately. It's fucking Foster-Wallacian!

See, we had to fight her over there in order to prevent her from fighting us over here and we've taken care of all the bad guys while winning the hearts and minds of the general citizenry!

Yes, it is clear victory for us today. Why, look at this post. It contains actual, independent research! Can you fucking believe it? Our muse actually searched through PRIMARY documentation! At first I thought she must be plagiarizing someone else's work, but she confirms in the comments that it's her own! Hallelujah! Praise the lord! Freedom marches on!

Now, if we could just get her to stop being stupid.

Trying Too Hard

Megan again tries to be cute. It barely works for her appearance, & it never works when she types.

Whatever you think of, say, children who decided to be born poor,

One can only assume (or hope) that she is, in her sad way, actually mocking those who think po' folks are completely responsible for the situation they find themselves in, but when she qualifies it w/ "whatever you think," as if those who think the poor deserve to be screwed on a daily basis have a point somewhere besides the tops of their pinheads, she manages to undercut whatever point she may have been trying to make.

Self-loathing? Just plain dense? World's worst typist? I neither know nor care any longer. My only hope is that The Atlantic will be out of business soon. Then she & her insignificant other can spend all their time sleeping on the streets, except w/o a new iPhone waiting for them every morning.

Let justice be done!

Also: As a California native & resident, I'd just as soon we secede from your United Snakes. Unlike shitholes like Texas (no offense to those few rational beings still living there) we can do just fine w/o the rest of you. Maybe Oregon, Washington & British Columbia will join us, & we can give the finger to East Coast elitists, Midwest morons & Southern shitheels.

How Brave of Him to Go Broke

Megan has kind words for the bankrupted Times reporter:

This is the bravest thing I've read for a long, long time. For a reporter--an economic reporter--to admit that he's been in the hell of excess debt and unpaid bills that he reports on is a major statement in middle class America.

Lemme guess, that statement is something along the lines of "it's his fault for purchasing what he couldn't have afforded?" or is it "the free market would have ensured that he made an educated decision. It is only regulation that causes problems!"

Oh, but she's sympathetic for some reason:

And so the debts creep up, one happy hour or Colorado backpacking adventure at a time.

Or from purchasing a half million dollar home on an income of 40k a year. Six pack of one, pallet of the other. Let's have some appletini's! Drinks are on my trust fund!

Remember, though, being a writer living paycheck to paycheck is a noble pursuit of greatness. Poor people living paycheck to paycheck made really bad decisions for which they are paying.

BONUS FUN:

I don't mean to moan about how terribly hard it is to be a writer. Being a writer is great. It's the best job I've ever had,[sic] and it's only by a most unlikely chain of coincidences that I get to do it,[double sic] so I'm well aware of just how lucky I am.

Which explains the non-stop bitching, haughty superiority, and disdain for anyone with whom she doesn't identify that has made a mistake. To be so enlightened! Also, she's a very good writer.

Pinch Megan

she must be dreaming.

for one class of citizen, housing costs are undeniably going up: the city is starting to charge the working homeless rent to stay in the shelters. Now, if you're on the bum but trying to save up a little something to better your life, you can forget about it -- you will be told, as one shelter resident who somehow found work as a cashier was told, to fork over $336 of the $800 a month you make to the authorities.

Now if the city could only begin a program to make beggars repay their 'victims', we'd have real social justice. I want my quarters back, with interest.

Bad Influence

Hey, we're on the McArdle schedule. No work on the wknds. (8 May @ 1516, then 11 May @ 1032. Bankers hours.)

Which is fine for us in the forcibly retired field, but not a good thing for Megan. If The Atlantic ever wises up & lets her go, the 40-hrs.-a-wk. thing isn't going to look too good on the resume. That's not the dedication required from someone whose issues require that she be successful & known.