They're both Very Very Online. For Very Online People, this is existential. It's saying that the ground on which you have built a chunk of your life is so toxic as to be uninhabitable by he… (View Post)

Ask your editor. Apparently, he knows quite a bit about it. For some reason. (View Post)

Pretty much. The early bits of the retaliation- which did look like trying to destroy Hamas- were probably acceptable (war is always hell) but perhaps unwise (full victory meant destroying an idea, n… (View Post)

The old tabloid wisdom was "who the hell reads the third paragraph?" The newer tabloid wisdom was "who the hell reads any paragraphs at all?" I don't know how you can go wors… (View Post)

A merger might be rational, but politics isn't just about the rational. Any merger means somebody is Number One and someone is Number Two. And at the moment, neither side will be willing to admi… (View Post)