Jenna Bush and the Meritocracy
Adam Serwer is incensed because he has "a lot of friends who spent a great deal of money, and went into a lot of debt, to learn how to be professional broadcast journalists" who are "now struggling to find work" and yet Jenna Bush Hager now has a job on Today despite having only a few years' teaching experience. As Glenn ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 1, 2009 07:40
State Liquor Stores
Glenn Reynolds points to a story by Doug Winship about Washington State's liquor stores running out of, um, liquor just in time for the July 4th weekend during which all good Americans celebrate their country's independence by getting hammered. Naturally, all liquor stores in Washington State are run by the government of the state of Washington who 1) screwed up ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 4, 2009 12:17
Quote of the Day – Newspaper Edition
"If you had told one of the great newspaper moguls of the past that someday it would be possible to publish a newspaper without paying anything for paper, printing and delivery, he would not have predicted that this would mean catastrophe for the industry. But that is what it has been." - Michael Kinsley What the moguls may have overlooked is ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on April 6, 2009 13:20
Blogger Arms Race
Responding to a reader suggestion that blogger's word counts be restricted by government (a rather apples-meet-oranges response to a post suggesting CEO pay be capped) Matt Yglesias only wishes it were so. Personally, I would love a legal cap on the number of words a blogger is allowed to produce per day. I’m privileged to have a job that I really ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on March 30, 2009 13:36
Obama to Run GM, Chrysler
President Obama says he'll help GM and Chrysler but they'll have to agree to some "pretty drastic changes." "We will provide them some help," Obama said. "I know that it is not popular to provide help to auto workers — or to auto companies. But my job is to measure the costs of allowing these auto companies just to collapse versus ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on March 27, 2009 07:16
Airline Surcharges: Pay to Pee?
Quentin Letts informs me that Ryanair, an Irish no-frills outfit of which I'd never previously heard, is contemplating charging passengers a fee to use the toilet. That is how it manages to charge such low basic fares for its flights. What they give you in discounted tickets, they try to claw back in the way of incidentals, from pay-per-bag luggage rates ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on March 13, 2009 07:37
