Forcing Me To Be Free

Time is running a cover story from one of the most reliably wanktastic writers in the known universe about how people with no employment prospects are just whiny narcissists who should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and gotten a sinecure writing drivel for one of the few remaining newsmagazines or something else that shows the superior work ethic of people like himself. Being a quasi-professional blogger, I steeled myself to read the thing, only to encounter one of the sweetest phrases in the English language:

This TIME Magazine article is free for subscribers

Whew, bad use of time averted. Instead, read Elle Reeve, who both reads the article to you don’t have to and notes that Time has been writing the same lazy article for time out of mind.

In related news, I heartily endorse the new Politico paywall.