Tom Bozzo at Angry Bear gives us a shorter Megan McArdle:
I once heard these terms of art from the electricity industry. No quizzes!
P.S., Al Gore is fat.
It is a funny but irrelevant fact that freak cold snaps have occurred several times that Al Gore was giving a big speech on global warming. ... the funny bit is that they happen wherever he is speaking.
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The Atlantic offered me a nice subscription deal recently; but the presence of Ms. McArdle, among others, convinced me that the magazine has gone downhill sufficiently that it just wasn't worth it.
The Atlantic's always had a hate-on for Gore. They were the ones who during the 2000 campaign depicted him as a vampire on their cover.
Tom did a good job. Thanks for th link.
File her under "ignorance is bliss."