Pick Flick

Weigel, WaPo, and the Tracy-Flickization of Public Life, Megan McArdle's excellent piece on the smearing of Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel.

So the lesson for young writers from all this: Be Tracy Flick. Don't say anything remotely interesting, certainly not over e-mail. If you lack the mental discipline to completely suppress critical thought about people and institutions you spend your life covering, get good at pretending.