jolie: the jack shafer of radar commenters.

You and George Packer, as one:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/verbiage.html

It makes sense in my head, and that's all you need to know.

(tapping fingers together, Monty Burns steez)

After last night, I am now a Fan o' Brody. The measured "Nope, you're crazy" responses to the desperately shrill Stephanie just killed me - it's like the classic exchange where you tell someone to "just calm down" as they escalate themselves into a frenzy that culminates with "I AM CALM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That would be pretty whelming, huh.

But choire, you forget that the Internet is ALSO the place for commenting on how attractive YOU are! Glass half full!

On a serious note, bummer for you, Balk. I actually did think Moe would be an excellent fit here.

Wait. MORE creative freedom? How is that even possible?

(goes back to blinking)

(blinking)

But she's giving the poor folks a VOICE!

Everyone gets a trophy!

I dutifully made this page my Internet Explorer homepage just so I can make sure that months from now I won't miss out on any of the discussion!

There's so much to say about it that I'm having trouble organizing my thoughts in a horizontal fashion!

Please keep up the great coverage of this Breaking News.

It makes sense that they have so many unshared pageviews - so many of their huge traffic pulls this year have been videos, no?

Michael Weiss only posted for what, 10 days or so in June, right? I am loving his work, although he doesn't seem like one that would benefit from being paid in page views - he's not exactly a Digg magnet. I'd think that they MUST have some different arrangement, but I could be wrong.

Great piece Choire and highly interesting!

Heh! But then YOU WILL HAVE TO BOLDFACE them, no?

Oh man. This is notable for JUST HOW MUCH IT LEAVE ME WANTING MORE. Why do I love blog feuds so much? Ann Althouse v. Feministing was a pretty good catfight, I must say.

I ... liked it? Is that OK to say in this jaded era? I'm scared.