The Economist comes to its senses
The Economist, a right-wing UK-based but mainly US-selling magazine, joins the camp.John Kerry, for all the doubts about him, would be in a better position to carry on with America's great tasks.
It's a pretty grudging endorsement, with a nasty line about his making his mind up only once, and that was 30 years' ago, but given how right-wing some members of the Economist's editorial team are it's still pretty amazing.
Naturally of course, The Economist is never wrong, so it wasn't wrong about Iraq, and it wasn't wrong about supporting Bush first time. Still welcome to the camp.
ps The Economist has another editorial on how things should be as simple as possible. This would have been good advice for its editorial. It also notes that
We know of no-one who is prepared to swear that he understands whether he is getting a good or bad deal from his mobile phone operator. One could build a spreadsheet to calculate the minutes talked off-peak, on-peak, in-plan, out-of-plan, and whatever other formulas consumers are forced to choose from. But then there would be no time left for talking
A friend, who is a regular reader of this site, actually once did this. Remarkably he has a social life, and a girlfriend.
posted by Matthew @ 10/29/2004 09:14:00 AM
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