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Here’s the deal: Ricochet is a great website. I would say The Greatest Website in the History of Websites, but I’m admittedly biased. So let’s look at this objectively.
As I end my month-long internship, I’m looking back on all the opportunities I had to write for Ricochet and to learn about running a website. My first task was to help create a Ricochet style guide. Before I had started this internship, I had no idea what a style guide was but, with the help of one of the editors at Ricochet, I learned fairly quickly. The process taught me various grammatical rules and even what should and shouldn’t be capitalized to make Ricochet consistent and aesthetically pleasing.
Like many others, no doubt, I found my way to Ricochet from National Review and originally came for the podcasts. After meaning to join for a year or two, I finally did it several months ago. I joined for one big reason, rooted in a sense of duty: The podcast advertisements gave me the idea that the podcasts aren’t really supposed to be free. You’re supposed to pay at least enough for the Calvin Coolidge membership. And, if you’re not on the Dave Ramsey plan for getting out of debt, you should pay for things you’re supposed to pay for, whether you really have to or not. (And, as it happens, I wasn’t on the Dave Ramsey plan.)
The economic mess in Greece is a result of faulty math. No matter how much the leaders in Athens wanted two plus two to equal pi, the laws of arithmetic didn’t allow it. Even the silly socialists of the European Union couldn’t pretend to violate those rules forever.
