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Megan McArdle
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Megan McArdle
@asymmetricinfo
Columnist at the Washington Post. Opinions my own. Email me: Megan.McArdle -at- washpost.com Buy my book, The Up Side of Down amzn.to/1a3i2tK
Washington, DC
Joined September 2008
- Airports are full of people who have discovered “life hacks” where the hack consists of violating social norms.
- Kamala Harris is ... not a great debater.
- Consider that maybe her family wanted to keep her name from going public for fear of exactly the kind of lunacy we are now witnessing.They didn't withhold Rebecca Lobach's name to "grieve", they kept it secret while they scrubbed her social media.
- The first thing to point out is that this deal makes no financial sense for Elon Musk. He's paying a premium for the stock, the total value of the acquisition is almost a fifth of his net worth, and there's no obvious way he's going to squeeze more money out of Twitter operations
- The essence of the Met Gala is that ultra-rich people pay huge sums to meet and be photographed with celebrities ... and then deduct their night out from their taxes. Why has no one pointed out that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wore a "tax the rich" dress *to a tax shelter*?
- This 1000%. I too used to think male strength was mostly about size until my super-skinny college boyfriend, who actually weighed less than me, effortlessly pinned me in a (playful) wrestling match, then held me down with one arm while he ostentatiously took a bite of hisMy observation is that very many women genuinely do not have an intuitive sense of how much stronger men are than women, because men have not used their strength against them &, when playing, hold back their strength. 1/
- Unfortunately, to answer that question, we would first have to elect a wildly popular presidentIf a wildly popular President is ordered by judges to stop doing what he was elected to do, what is the remedy?
- Marveling at the seamless transition from "Shadowbanning is ultra-MAGA paranoia" to "LOL of course they were de-amplifying the hard right, who thought this was news?"
- My theory is that people think of NPR as left wing because it is very obviously left wing.my theory is that people think of NPR as left-wing because it has prominent arts coverage
- There is a legit argument over what support we should give Ukraine. But I don’t understand how so many conservatives convinced themselves that Ukraine conmited an unforgivable offense by getting themselves invaded.
- I think a lot of atheists struggle with the idea that Christians actually believe their beliefs. If you believe that Christ is the road to salvation, naturally you want your wife to find Christ. It would be bizarre if you were indifferent to that possibility.Vance’s public remarks cast his wife’s faith as a kind of problem to be fixed, a soul yet to be “moved.” It’s the image of a husband proselytising to the woman who has only ever supported him. She gave up her career for him. Trusted him enough to make three children with him.
- Blaming this on racism and misogyny is a comforting explanation, because it lets progressive feel superior to opponents, and means they don't have to change anything. But it's at odds with an inconvenient fact: Harris seems to have done worse among women and non-white voters.
- This is incredibly stupid. Depriving treasury employees of access to proprietary Bloomberg bond market data to own the libs.News: The White House has directed the GSA to terminate "every single media contract" expensed by the agency: "Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg" "The eye of Sauron is on more than just Politico It's all the media," WH adviser says axios.com/2025/02/06/tru…
