Unrelated, but of surpassing interest: Dennis Prager calls out Charles Johnson. Heh.

No way.

Gerard: Tell me that you are not still subscribing to the New Yorker.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day, but it sure fell in a hurry.

Cue Jaws theme.

JWM

I am not still subscribing to the New Yorker, but alas some of my friends still are. I try to get them to go to a 12 step program but they have not yet bottomed.

Only a few years ago the New Yorker was a great bargain. Both the news stand price and the subscriptions were kept dirt-cheap. It cost something like $1.99/issue or $7.99 per year.

It was just the right size to read on a flight. At that price you could overlook their attitude and read the other pages.

But when W took office the magazine became all attitude all the time. Not worth a cent or a moment of your time..

I'm going to be a childish jerk: I'll go see my brother, the arch-liberal New Yorker subscriber, and I'm going to snatch up this copy from his coffee table and dance around his living room, probably going, "La LA La La la LAH!" and waving the cover in his face.

Unlike him, I'm an inveterate barrel-chested gym rat, and he's a classic pencil neck; he'll just have to suffer through it. After all, what ARE little brothers for?

Heh, Heh, Heh

I finally dropped it last year. I'll cop to it - I'm still in cartoon withdrawal. Having a daily New Yorker cartoon calendar helps mitigate the craving.

Like mezzrow, I dropped my subscription last year, after being a reader for ~20 years. I, too, miss the comics and the cover art but I got so achingly tired of the Obamamania I could take it no more. My feeling was that the staff had crawled so far up Obama's backside they were viewing the world from behind his eye teeth.
And as Gagdad Bob above has noted, Prager's takedown of Charles Johnson should be satisfying.