Now, for the low, low subscription price of $14 per year, you can get content from the League of Ordinary Gentlemen delivered to your doorstep on paper — as little as several days after it’s been written. Your print publication may even arrive less than a full week after the events discussed within it have transpired.
Welcome, Newsweek. What took you so long?
Jason Kuznicki
Jason Kuznicki is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and contributor of Cato Unbound. He's on twitter as JasonKuznicki. His interests include political theory and history.
Devcat is watching over, but if you notice any problems contact the editors and Devcat will be notified and deployed immediately.
on Ordinary Times Needs Your HelpDone. I've often wondered how this site worked without any ads.
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.
on Weekend Plans Post: On a Plane to IcelandNice! Me and my family were in Iceland this past June. The spot we parked when visiting the Blue Lag…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tIt's amazing how 15 million people managed to enter the country illegally through that closed southe…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024I'm not assuming they're harmless; avoiding harm was not the option the electorate chose for us. The… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Entirely possible but less likely than with an administration of no-nonsense dedicated and capable f…
on Weekend Plans Post: On a Plane to IcelandSounds awesome (again) ... going to the thermal electric site? That sounded cool. I have to go to th…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Yep. Paying for sex with escorts probably only scratches the surface. on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Then show me the mushroom cloud. Russia has lots of open space. They've pulled out of the test-ban t… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024If they really wanted to prove they still had nukes they should test one. They could test as many as…
November 21, 2024
November 20, 2024
Movie of a Young Man Calling on a Lady Friend
November 19, 2024
November 18, 2024
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024
on The Mandate That Wasn’t on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024 on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024 on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024 on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024
on The Mandate That Wasn’t on The Mandate That Wasn’t on The Mandate That Wasn’t on The Mandate That Wasn’t
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024 on The Mandate That Wasn’t on The Mandate That Wasn’t
Why would changing to a format people have always resisted paying for be a difficult decision? Beats me.Report
The problem is that readers are now resisting paying for either format, print or online.
If they’re giving roughly the same amount of resistance, the only remaining questions are the size and quality of the advertising audience, and the freshness of the news. The former varies, but in the latter, online wins every time.Report
If there’s no discernible difference in the amount of quality between the two things, why would you choose the one you have to pay for?Report
Just so.
The trouble is that I almost never see online content edited to the same standards that I find in the parallel print publication. Atlantic, TNR, the Nation — goodness yes, Reason — all have flaws online that aren’t in print.
There is an art to good English usage, and there is an art to editing. Both are dying all around us.Report
They’re not just dying, they’re being murdered. It’s a genocide.Report
The trouble with the peasants is that they just don’t speak the King’s English any more.Report
There’s more to editing than the quirks of language. I’ve had my work edited by someone who knows what they’re doing and the primary goal is improving readability – making it easier for other people to understand what you are saying.Report
It’s like most open source software: lots of code, because writing code is the fun part. [1] Minimal tests and docs, because that’s work and there isn’t money to pay for it.
In other words, you get what you pay for.
1. The code doesn’t work in edge cases, because thinking that stuff through isn’t fun either.Report