(Don’t) Use All Your Well-Learned Politesse

And to keep the theme going, I urge you to read these posts on D.C. insider, universal expert, and Keynesian killbot Matthew Yglesias by Charles Davis and IOZ. We need more of this – more undermining of the  we're-all-friends-here centrist atmosphere that...

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As Heads Is Tails, Just Call Me Lucifer

In news that should stun those of you who just awoke from a seven-decade coma, Dave Weigel, recently fired by the Washington Post, has just been hired by Slate.com... a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg, who rose to...

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Weigel vs. WikiLeaks

On his Twitter feed Monday, Dave Weigel, journalist, posted the following (emphasis mine): The WikiLeaks Afghan dump is depressing. Very tired of our effort there being subjected to this kind of crap. When Glenn Greenwald pressed Weigel to clarify what "kind of crap"...

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