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Re: #MacStoriesDeals – Tuesday

Maggie Shnayerson — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:37:54 -0000

Aaaand...never mind!

Re: #MacStoriesDeals – Tuesday

Maggie Shnayerson — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:45:30 -0000

Hey Chris—the url for the Mac Treasure Bundle should end in a .com, not a .net: http://www.mactreasurebundl.... Thanks for the great lists, as always. Cheers—

Re: Navel Gazing - R. Scott Moxley - Dirty Dad: Daughter Didn't Adequately Fight Sodomy Attack

Maggie Shnayerson — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:00:58 -0000

Gustavo and dear Scott:

Couple of things: In order to lose respect for Moxley, I’d have to start out with some to begin with. So let me assure you that I’m a big Moxley Confidential fan. Which is why I was disappointed to see an item from him that—unlike the rest of what I’ve seen of Scott’s work over the years—seemed careless and lacking in specifics, like dates, which Scott’s explanation of “recently” from above still doesn’t provide.

Am I quibbling? Maybe. But it can be those facts that lend a balancing gravity to the easy natural language sometimes used by alt-weeklies. Without that anchor, as a reader, I was left with my first reaction—and I wasn’t the only one, it seems.

I’m disappointed that Gustavo and Scott—both of whom I still admire very much—decided the best recourse upon receiving a comment critical of a post was to go personal, insulting my “fragile sensibilities,” and implying I just don’t “get” it for lack of being a regular reader.

I presume you don’t actually have any idea if I read you regularly. If I am, you’ve just alienated one of the faithful. If I’m not, well…let’s hope belittling potential new readers for not being in the club isn’t part of a circulation strategy: I’ve got a good helping of journalistic hopes pinned on alt-weeklies like yours.

For the record—since this entire argument began with a little girl and her hideously craptastic father—Judge Hayes filed his opinion on Refugio Tochihuitl’s lunatic appeal on January 10, 2011. You can read it here: http://bit.ly/dGNSBP

Thanks for your time and thoughts, and apologies for the long-windedness.
A fan as ever,
—Maggie Shnayerson

Re: Navel Gazing - R. Scott Moxley - Dirty Dad: Daughter Didn't Adequately Fight Sodomy Attack

Maggie Shnayerson — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:33:04 -0000

Dear Moxley—what the hell is this? Here are 151 words with hardly a shred of context. When did this interview and appeal take place? Why is this story important now? (Other than the fact that whenever this took place, it was important.) Also? Way to introduce extra prurience to an already sickening story by using the terms you've chosen to use to describe the victim's anatomy. Losing respect for you by the second, here.

Re: http://localhost:8920/support

Maggie Shnayerson — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:44:54 -0000

Suggestion: List or denote Award and Set Frogs. Otherwise, your app is less "a reference guide" to the game than a way to look at all the pretty color and pattern combinations you can come up with. Meh. Five stars if you do. Pocketfrogs Wiki does it well, but not as user-friendly as you guys.

Re: http://localhost:8920/support

Maggie Shnayerson — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:43:57 -0000

Nope, they're right-it's a common frog by its values, just very hard to get.

Re: Crowdsourcing!

Maggie Shnayerson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:19:55 -0000

Oh my God, this is terrible! I don't, can't, agree and agree. But sympathies, empathies, sentimental clichées—all of these I send you.

Re: The Doree Chronicles

Maggie Shnayerson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:30:23 -0000

Short answer: Major back taxes chit comes due for the employer and the employee gets their work credited to their Social Security record, which may mean nothing whatsoever to Sheila by the time she needs it.

Long answer: Want to find out?

"Consequences of Treating an Employee as an Independent Contractor
If you classify an employee as an independent contractor and you have no reasonable basis for doing so, you may be held liable for employment taxes for that worker (the relief provisions, discussed below, will not apply). See Internal Revenue Code section 3509 for more information." [IRS.gov]

doree:

Re: Maggie Shnayerson

Maggie Shnayerson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:46:54 -0000

Woohoo, comments! Thank God.

Re: The Doree Chronicles

Maggie Shnayerson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:53:52 -0000

I'm sort of irrationally peeved too! It's all this irrational patriotism the Olympics engenders. Best Bela quote (sans interruption from Costas, who I irrationally hate)? ""You don't have to be a gymnastics coach—just a good mom and dad—to say, 'Wait a minute! I have children! I know what a child looks like at 11 years old and at 16 years old.' "

Re: The Doree Chronicles - On roaches

Maggie Shnayerson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:03:36 -0000

Oh thank you, lady. You just made me snort-giggle in the best way that it is possible for that to happen.