This is going to be my new blogging policy -- I'm giving up on actually writing anything, and will simply nag people about who they should be giving money to.
Occasionally I'll alternate with pointing out that you'd be much prettier if you'd push your hair back out of your face.
If you give money to me, I'll push your hair back out of your face for you. Win-win!
If these people don't know what to do with their money, they should give it to me!
3: Your hair's short enough that you're excused from pushing it back.
Give it to Lindsay Beyerstein before you give it to Christo, for sure.
Lindsay could do a Christo-inspired fundraiser. Give $X and be allowed to drape her in fabric. Give $Y and be allowed to stick little drink umbrellas between her toes.
Pharma needs copywriters! What, you want everyone taking cheap generics and killing innovation?
Give $Z and be allowed to stick little drink umbrellas in Christo.
I'm kind of surprised you've had a Harpers and not an American Prospect subscription, but I wholeheartedly endorse that idea. Good stuff.
I actually don't have a Harpers subscription, I buy it at newsstands. (Yes, it's more expensive that way, but if I subscribe then I've already read it when I'm stuck someplace, while if I buy it at a newsstand that means that I have it when I haven't got anything else to read. There is a plan.)
Making it a rule never to go anywhere without something to read improves stress levels, peace in the family, and all sorts of wonderful things.
You should have a cell phone with a good browser.
One more crack like that and I'm going to borrow LB's cane and whack you with it. Trying to read anything on the damn Blackberry is bad enough.
You're right, I should sign up for TAP. I wonder why none of these writers-who-TAP-pays-who-I-like-to-read never pimp subscriptions on their blog, like Kevin Drum, who has to turn over his blog to pledge week.
John Tierney is an idiot. The muffin joke is hilarious.
Tierney's article was godawful. He dissed Plato, Freud and several others on the way to introducing a psychologist's theory of humor that was so nondescript that I can't remember it.
Pardon?
May I introduce you to Standpipe Bridgeplate, who keeps a blog that explains ... oh.
No, see, I was getting my Grice on, assuming that your comment's subject matter had an antecedent up in here.
I wonder why none of these writers-who-TAP-pays-who-I-like-to-read never pimp subscriptions on their blog
Ezra Klein has been pimping TAP pretty heavily lately.
Me, I'm holding out - I really enjoy Lindsay's pharma copy. I'd miss it terribly.
It's funny about the Christo jokes - I'm pretty sure the first time I stopped by majikthise was when she had up her Gates pics (which were, of course, awesome).