I'll second comments that the shift in focus of the ATW is a great great idea and I'm excited about it. Especially if there is reading involved.

Stepping back, one of the huge problems of the discourse in American society is it is completely short-term focused and everyone has the memory of a gnat. I strongly applaud the effort by ATW to its new "just-say no" approach to the latest manufactured narrative of the day.

I also applaud Taibbi being the fact-based skeptical journalist while allowing Kirn to roam free-range and offer takes that push and dissect narratives. It really works well.