The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Seniority as a Liability

“The harsh reality is that in the tech world, companies prefer to hire young, inexperienced, engineers. And engineering is an ‘up or out’ profession: you either move up the ladder or face unemployment.” This is true in many other professions, notoriously including sales. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman was, after all, a story about a […]

Pamela Geller Bikini ‘Scandal’?

Remember my joke — and it was a joke, in case you didn’t realize it — that Marcela Hoeven looking good in a bikini was a “scandal”? The Washington Post evidently thinks the same thing of Pamela Geller: The most colorful — and perhaps most visible — activist at the moment is Pam Geller, a […]

News, Weak

The bidding for Newsweek hasn’t been exactly eager: [S]ome Newsweek staffers . . . describe the mood as ranging from stunned to funereal to angry — the latter emotion fueled by a sense that Editor Jon Meacham erred badly by transforming the newsweekly into an upscale, left-leaning opinion magazine. Meacham has said that in the […]

Dave Weigel, Joe McGinniss, Jesse Griffin and the Palin-Hater Next Door

I consider David Weigel a friend, and have often praised him as one of the best young reporters in Washington. But Weigel’s “See-No-Evil” attitude toward Joe McGinniss, who moved in next door to the Palin family to work on his anti-Palin book, seems absurdly naive. While you can’t fault a journalist for associating with potential sources, a commenter in a previous post […]

Not Good News for James O’Keefe

A guilty plea: The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses. Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III sentenced Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and […]

This Just In: TWITTER IS NEWS!

Twitter pal Sissy Willis tipped me to a Don Irvine post about a study that found Twitter to be more about news than networking. Which means . . .? You guessed it: RT @SissyWillis TWITTER = NEWS http://bit.ly/bCE0ev [] Which means @Alyssa_Milano = Walter Cronkite? C’mon, Alyssa: Just one re-Tweet is all I’m asking for […]

On Conservative Journalism

Matthew Yglesia is a blogger, not a reporter, at Think Progress — edited by former DNC researcher and Democratic congressional aide Faiz Shakir — which is on the tab of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which is headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta. Despite these stubborn facts, Yglesias feels entitled to […]

‘Dear Zionist Douchebag’?

Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic Monthly disengages from Sully: Each time Andrew Sullivan writes negatively about Israel (which is to say, almost every day), my e-mail in-box becomes flooded with pleas that I respond. . . . Yes, it’s upsetting that Andrew Sullivan . . . has become an anti-Israel propagandist. But it’s not my […]

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