Bloodless Coup

yeah, but bits like this --

"I thought it'd be nice to work somewhere where my mom would not be embarrassed to tell her bridge club about," she wrote of her move to a prominent role in mainstream media.

"Of course, they all think the Internet is a series of tubes," she said, referring to 82-year-old Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens's description of the Internet last month, comments since lampooned by bloggers and comedians.

-- make one wonder whether she's going to adapt well to her new role in the MSM. yes, Stevens made a sad-but-funny. but editors of dry publications like Time usually don't get to turn them into punchlines, and i'm not sure they should.

Note that she's Washington editor of the Time.com website, not of the magazine. Big, big difference -- in culture, in expectations, and in status.

True, but for all the shit she's taken from Atrios and others about clawing her way into mainstream-ness, I think this step makes perfect sense, while at the same time, shows what happens when people tame themselves for public consumption.

i'll make a loose, not putting money where my mouth is prediction, that she'll be out in a year for one reason or another. she'll probably get picked up somewhere similar, but i don't think she can hold this job for a year without putting her foot in her mouth. online or not, it's still time.

Does this mean Time.com will begin to use the term "ass-fucking"?

I think that should be the new title of this post. In fact I am going to steal it now.

Somebody -- who blogs about this sort of thing -- told me recently that ass-fucking is the new BDSM. Clearly AMC was just ahead of the curve.

I thought ass-fucking was the new virginity?

Different segment of the market, I think -- jaded thirtyish hipsters vs jaded teens.

Although with our comment spam lately (milf-o-rama) they might overlap.

In a truly marvelous bit of ass-fucking synchronicity, guess who's guest-blogging for Andrew Sullivan this week (and next)?