James Taranto
@jamestaranto
Editorial Features Editor, in charge of @WSJ op-ed pages. Best of the Web columnist 2000-17. 'Aged to perfection with just the right amount of bite.'--ChatGPT
#BestoftheWeb Finale: Parting thoughts on journalism, authority and the Trump era, by @jamestaranto wsj.com/articles/final… via @WSJ
An underappreciated passage of Justice Jackson's dissent in CASA is her appeal to the authority of a fictional space alien.
"You often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR"--Donald J. Trump
You'll never believe who DISCOVERED Alzheimer's disease.
Has nominative determinism gone too far (h/t @bschne)
Utterly Shakespearean that the 2020 death of a minority who didn’t complete college kicked off a nation-wide wave of sound and performative fury whose only lasting impact seems to have been that it pushed minorities who didn’t complete college out of the Democratic fold.
While demographic analysis can be reductive, I think this table is extremely revealing.
1,000 letters is around 200 words. May we all achieve such brevity.
I just met with Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and I gave her over 1,000 letters from people across the country who are worried about what she's doing to the Department of Education.
I saw at least 3 tweets from FIRE guys making the same claim about "jawboning"--including the one from the boss, to which I originally responded--so I assumed it was an institutional position. In any case, I doubt you're going to get into trouble and I'll back you if you do.
Biden first said it on the campaign trail. He also said Zuck should face criminal penalties which is even worse (also included in the litany)! Curious why you tagged FIRE. Do you think you're going to get me in trouble for having the temerity to disagree with you? Weird look.
Wondering who @TheFIREorg regarded as president in July 2021.
And I seem to recall many (including WSJ's Ed Board) including Biden's (who wasn't even president at the time!) statement that Facebook was "killing people" in the litany of jawboning allegations. But now public statements mean it's not jawboning? Hmm... x.com/jamestaranto/s…