You Get What You Pay For – Open Thread

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  February 28th at 10:49 AM  | 

Last August, the Washington Post sold Newsweak Newsweek magazine for a buck to a 91-year old stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman, who also assumed the periodical’s debt. Three months later the Daily Beast merged with Newsweek. The cheap purchase price from the Newsweek buy has allowed the Daily Beast to entice Andrew “Excitable Andy” Sullivan, the “conservative” pot-smoker and “expert to the masses” on all | Read More »

Laugh Line Of The Day

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  January 6th at 02:00 PM  | 

Via Lucianne.com, noted gynecological expert Andrew Sullivan writes another (probably pot-induced) screed against Sarah Palin. Read it if you want; I didn’t, won’t comment on it, and won’t link to it directly. But I looked down the comment thread in the Lucianne link and think I found the secret to Excitable Andy’s (or maybe that of one or more of his sock puppets) repeated forays | Read More »