It's not often a magazine cover makes you go "gulp."
This month's issue of Reason sure did. Then I looked a second time, and got a chill.
Seeing your name in bold print on the cover of a deep-think national news magazine is one thing. Realizing that the satellite imagery on the cover includes your house is something entirely else.
Nick & the gang at Reason should be applauded for their bold effort. And while it isn't online yet, Matt Welch's essay is especially good. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand--
--although you non-subscribers won't get the shock and treat I enjoyed today.
UPDATE: It's a shame they used my full name, which no one ever uses. If the cover had read, "Yo, Steve, they know where you are," I might have wet myself.
Mine hasn't arrived yet. Looking forward to it, though.
Damn, Jeff -- I should have included a spoiler warning and hidden the cover scan below the "MORE" button.
Sorry.
... your lawn needs edging.
I got mine a couple days ago and it freaked me out.
Even funnier is that I cancelled my subscription six months ago.
It was a remarkable stunt, though, and very impressive.
Now if only it weren't just an anti-government, anti-military, anti-war, anti-reason screed then I might have even opened it and read it.
That rag has gone down hill fast since Virginia Postrel left.
Steve, if I saw that and it was my name up there, I would be severely pissed off at them.
Mike, I agree with your assessment. I let mine lapse at the end of 2003. There wasn't anything in there worth reading. They jumped the shark after Virginia Postrel left.
Make that three ex-subscribers. I blame the addition of Julian Sanchez and Brian Doherty... plus, the choice of letters to the editor that end up printed grew increasingly annoying.
The recent John Stossel article was good, though.
What a freaky thing to do. Good thing you're not a liberal or else you'd have sued.
Do the newsstand issues have Nick Gillespie's house on the cover?
Hey, I almost always call you by your full name. That is, when I'm not calling you The James Bond of the Blogosphere.
